Anthea Hartzenberg

HEAD OF PLATFORM & COMMUNITY – CatalyzU

Anthea Hartzenberg is a senior growth, communications, and community strategist with 10 years of experience in the African & European startup and tech ecosystems. She formerly headed Engagement at OfferZen, Africa’s largest developer talent marketplace. Anthea scaled OfferZen’s B2B and B2C community strategy and branded merchandise operations from 100,000 developers in South Africa to six additional European markets, including Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain. Prior to OfferZen, she worked as Strategic Communications and Media Relations Manager at JUMO, the leading fintech in Africa at the time, valued at over $400 million.

Noi Omaboe

Head of Sales & Partnerships – Rafiki

Noi is passionate about innovation and strategy in Africa and in particular start-ups seeking to reshape embedded systems in the continent via the use of technology. 

Through Insight Venture Partner’s portfolio recruiting program, Noi began his career at Conga, a SaaS-based platform that offers document generation and management solutions to myriad sectors. After various roles within the sales domain, he joined his family business, The O3 Group, a management consultancy firm in Ghana with expertise in business, investments and economic consulting, where he was responsible for the appraisal of all new investment opportunities and projects. 

In 2021, Noi began his MBA at Oxford University’s Said Business School, where he was a committee member of the Oxford Africa Business Alliance, serving as the Co-Director of the 2022 Oxford Africa Business Forum and a General Director of the Oxford Seed Fund, Europe’s largest student-led fund investing up to £100,000 in Oxford affiliated startups and founders. 

After his MBA, Noi participated in 2 VC fellowships (CatalyzU and DreamVC) before joining AfricInvest for an internship within their VC arm, CAIF (Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund). He is now leading the client acquisition function at Rafiki, an early-stage startup called Rafiki, a freelancer tech platform sourcing top skill-specific talent across Africa and connecting them to global businesses. Noi holds an undergraduate Economics degree with an Innovation and Entrepreneurship certificate from Duke University. Outside of work, you will likely find Noi playing or watching football, rugby or golf.

Ololade Odunsi

Portfolio Talent Lead – Founders factory Africa

Ololade is currently the Portfolio Talent Lead at Founders Factory Africa which is Africa’s most hands-on early-stage tech investor backing the continent’s most visionary entrepreneurs. In this
role, she provides talent advisory to over 60 African startups in the FFA portfolio towards helping them build and optimise high-performing teams. This advisory is focused on critical functions such as talent acquisition, performance management, employee engagement and other people-related support.

With over 12 Years of talent leadership and HR operational experience in the Technology, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Banking and Telecommunications industries across Africa, Ololade has a record of supporting overall business success through her well-rounded experience in organisational development, performance management and talent management. She also has a Master’s degree from the University of Lagos and, prior to joining Founders Factory Africa, has worked with other notable organisations such as TradeDepot, Atlas Copco, Swiss Pharma, Smile Communications and A.G Leventis Nigeria.

Ololade is passionate about building and enabling the next generation of leaders in the African
technology ecosystem.

Arinze Obiezue

Investment Analyst – Future Africa

Arinze is a professional whose work across culture, technology, and investments seeks to accelerate Africa’s creative and entrepreneurial renaissance. Through his work in VC, he supports other founders and startups building innovative products for the digital economy.

He’s currently the co-founder and publisher of Kenga, an independent culture publication documenting the ideas, personalities, and cultures shaping African Gen Z communities on the continent and in the diaspora. Prior to founding Kenga, Arinze was a content designer at Meta, where he worked on product features aimed at limiting the spread of sensitive content on Facebook and Instagram.

While at Meta, Arinze co-founded EarlyAdmit, a coaching platform that helped high-achieving students from underrepresented minority backgrounds get admitted to the top MBA programs in the world. EarlyAdmit was acquired in 2023 by Tequire.

Arinze joined Meta after graduating valedictorian of his class at the African Leadership University (ALU) in Mauritius with a first-class honours degree in Business Management, then left Meta to pursue a master’s degree in Global Affairs with a focus on AI Policy at Tsinghua University, where he was a Schwarzman Scholar and a China Oceanwide Fellow.

Arinze is a 2017 recipient of The Diana Award and was a 2021 judge for the prestigious youth social impact award created in honour of the Late Princess Diana. In 2020, he became the first student from an African university to be offered admission to the competitive deferred MBA programs at both Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In 2023, RIVET recognised Arinze as one of the 20 young people in the world catalysing the youth revolution through social innovation and entrepreneurship. For his work building Kenga, a creative platform that helps shift the narrative of Africa towards better stories about the African experience, Arinze was also named a 2023 Kekere Storyteller Prize Champion.

In 2024, Arinze was selected as Skoll Fellow by the Skoll Foundation among a cohort of 33 other global changemakers leading impactful organisations in their communities.

Opeyemi Solaru is an Impact Associate at Founders Factory Africa. She has developed impact measurement frameworks for numerous social enterprises and tech startups in order to ensure that their inputs achieve their intended short and long-term impact locally and globally. She also has a background in research, global health and international development and has experience working in the US, UK and Nigeria. She holds a BSC in Community Health from University of Maryland, College Park and an MSc in Global Health and Development from the University College London.Opeyemi is passionate about driving impact in early-stage ventures across Africa and is committed to supporting ventures that not only generate financial returns but also contribute to the social and economic advancement of communities across Africa.