Folake Folarin-Coker, Nigerian. Fashion Designer
Coker is the founder of Tiffany Amber,
one of Africa’s leading fashion labels. She is the first African-based
designer to showcase for two consecutive seasons at New York Fashion
Week. In 2009, she won Designer of the Year at African Fashion
International in Johannesburg, South Africa followed by Fashion Brand
of the Year in 2011 at the Arise Fashion Week in Lagos, Nigeria.
Tara Fela-Durotoye Nigerian. Founder, House Of Tara
The Nigerian-born entrepreneur and lawyer is the founder of House Of
Tara, Nigeria’s leading beauty and cosmetics company. House of Tara
develops a wide range of African-themed beauty products and perfumes and
also operates Nigeria’s foremost beauty academy. In 2013, Fela-Durotoye
was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Orekunrin, 25, is founder and Managing Director
of Flying Doctors Nigeria Ltd., an air ambulance service based in Lagos,
Nigeria. Orekunrin’s company is the first air ambulance service in West
Africa to provide urgent helicopter, airplane ambulance and evacuation
services for critically injured people. She is a 2013 New Voices Fellow
at the Aspen Institute and was named a Young Global Leader in 2013 by
the World Economic Forum.
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