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