
Prime Minister of Barbados

President and Chief Executive Officer, USADF

Head of Africa – ICON Tech Investment Bank

Founder & President, Ashesi University

Chief Executive Office, Invest Barbados

CEO and General Partner of Fund for Africa's Future (Future Africa)

Global Innovation, EY Sustainability

Senior Research Associate, ODI

President and CEO, Global Fund for Women

CEO, Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal, Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

Honorable Senator Warner, U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia

Senior Program Officer, Engagement, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

US-West EY Private Leader and Assurance Partner, Ernst & Young

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Director of Market Systems, DT Global, Inc.

Regional Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation,West North America

Senior Finance and Investment Advisor, USAID

Co-Director of Bread for the World’s Policy and Research Institute

CEO and Founder, Biotessia

Founder and Managing Partner, Ignite Venture Studio; Board Chairman, African Diaspora Network

Vice President, Global Patient Advocacy, Pfizer

Founder and CEO, Homestrings

Chief Science Officer, Consumer Healthcare; Sanofi

Co-Founder and CEO, Level 42AI
Shasha has led big data initiatives at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, advanced drug development through modeling and simulation at Roche, Genentech, and Amgen, and co-founded Level 42 AI, Inc. Level 42 AI, Inc’s mission is to follow nature’s instruction to unveil and interpret functional health information hidden in plain sight and in “noise” for actionable insights. Level 42 AI software-defined hardware captures broad frequency, low amplitude human health information traditionally discarded as “noise” at accuracy and densities required for Level 42’s novel structured machine learning edge inference tools for real time actionable insights and lifestyle modification coaching.

Global Innovation, EY Sustainability

Associate Dean and Professor of Animal Science, University of California, Davis

Founder and Executive Director, African Diaspora Network

Executive Director, Draper Venture Network

Founder, Ujama Inc.

Co-Executive Director, AFFORD

Founder, Global Diaspora Insights

Executive Director, Stanford Seed

CEO, MedTrans Go
Dana Weeks is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MedTrans Go. MedTrans Go is a B2B healthcare appointment optimization platform solving the $150B problem of medical appointment cancellations in the US. Their tech-enabled portal provides healthcare facilities access to a customizable suite of services to address the root causes of their cancellations in one easy-to-use, integrated digital platform. Dana previously led several entrepreneurial ventures and held leadership positions at Pfizer, AT&T, and the Black Angel Tech Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization she co-founded to support and increase the number of underrepresented minorities in technology.

Director Health Systems, PharmAccess Group

Acting Chief Economists/Vice President for Economic Governance & Knowledge Management, African Development Bank Group

Head of International Growth, Interswitch

Co-Founder and Operating Partner, Fast Forward

Senior Director for Emerging Economies at Arm

Education Coordinator, The Africa America Institute and Independent Educational Consultant

Deputy Vice President, Congressional and Public Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporation

Founder, Winkler Group; Board Member, African Diaspora Network

Emerging Farmers Initiative

Assistant Professor, Pan African Studies Program, Department of Ethnic Studies, California State University, Sacramento

Professor and Former Chancellor

Co-Founder and CEO, Wami Agro Limited