HOW TO CREATE SOLID FOUNDATIONS AND SCALE UP

Suubi Nambwayo is passionate about technology and how it can be used to run businesses more efficiently. She has a background in Technology Consulting and a dual Masters in International Business and Business Analytics. She currently works at Oceanic Partners, a late-stage Venture Capital firm that invests in high growth startups and pre-IPO companies as an Operations Research Analyst. She loves to use her education and work experience to advise and mentor early stage entrepreneurs in business strategy, storytelling and investor readiness. She volunteers on the HBCUVc Lab fund committee and recommends which start-up should receive investment. When it comes to food, she enjoys hosting eating experiences and is also in charge of Strategy and Partnerships and Sugar and Space. In her free time, she enjoys dancing kizomba, a social dance that originates from Angola.

Orfirah is an expert in Food sales for entrepreneurs who want to change the food system. She made a career in large FMCG companies like Nestlé and Danone and has worked for and with start ups and scale ups in food for the past five years. As a business mentor she guides food and drinks businesses with their growth strategies, attracting the right customers and setting up and accelerating the sales process.