Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu is a legal practitioner with experience in law and business specifically corporate commercial law, oil and gas, corporate compliance, joint venture and intellectual property. She is a business executive with over 15 years of experience in business development, start-up incubation, brand management and development; a trained and certified executive coach with experience in Leadership Development and Management team effectiveness with emphasis on transformational, transitional and transactional integral coaching and a passionate advocate of the transformative power of entrepreneurship as the key to the economic development of Africa.<\/p>\n
Appointed in April 2019 as the third Chief Executive Officer of The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa\u2019s leading philanthropy, Ifeyinwa holds the distinction of being the first African to hold this position.<\/p>\n
Ifeyinwa joined the Tony Elumelu Foundation in 2017 as the Director of Partnerships & Evaluations, a role she held for two years. In this position, she developed the Foundation\u2019s institutional framework for financial and value-add partnerships to scale the impact of the US$100m TEF Entrepreneurship programme beyond its initial target to empower 10,000 entrepreneurs. The resulting strategic partnerships with governments, development finance institutions, multilaterals and private organisations led to a record-breaking selection of 3,050 entrepreneurs in 2019.<\/p>\n
As CEO, Ifeyinwa is responsible for the overall development and implementation of the Foundation\u2019s initiatives, overseeing its day-to-day operations including the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, TEFConnect \u2013 the digital networking platform for African entrepreneurs, monitoring and evaluation, research, and alumni engagement. She also steers the Foundation\u2019s positioning, partnership and engagement with the wider development ecosystem as TEF launches into its next stage of scale, expanded impact, and intelligent mining of its proprietary data on African entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n
Ifeyinwa is a proven leader with business vision and the ability to bring people together, leveraging her insights and global perspective as the Foundation executes its strategy to transform Africa through entrepreneurship while delivering value for Africa and Africans through the thousands of entrepreneurs it has already empowered and the many more thousands to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25533,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[3269,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-25532","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyer","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25535,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25532\/revisions\/25535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25532"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=25532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}