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YOUNG MINDS

Adaobi Adibe

Adaobi Adibe is an Electrical and Electron-
ic Engineering (BEng) graduate from the
University of Manchester. She was the lead
Venture Capitalists at Campus Capital, a £2.5
million fund investing in early stage technol-
ogy companies. She has also worked for VC
fund Accelerated digital ventures, helping to
source a £5 million investment into Chargifi.
She is currently an advisor to Microtraction
where she was previously an investment as-
sociate. Adaobi is also co-founder and CEO
of CAREforseven, a clean energy platform
focused on micro projects. Her work in ven-
ture capital and clean energy led to her be-
ing awarded the number one black student
in the UK by the prestigious Future Leaders
magazine, and nominated by Booking.com as
young technologist of the year in 2019.

Tobi-Ruth Adebekun

Tobi is British born Nigerian and grew up on the
south coast of the United Kingdom. After gradu-
ating with a degree in French and International
Media with Communication Studies from the
University of Nottingham, she started her career
at Six Degrees – a STEM public relations agency,
where she worked on a wide range of technol-
ogy businesses from apps (Treatwell, wire) to
cloud computing and software (Audatex, Exact,
OVH), as well as the startup world (CrowdRating,
Eight Roads Ventures).Since November 2016, she
has been working at Snap Inc. – the parent com-
pany behind popular messaging app Snapchat
– where she is part of the team managing com-
munication and media relations across Europe,
the Middle East and North Africa. She is on the
Emerging Leaders board of a child and youth
development charity and has spent time volun-
teering in refugee camps in Calais.

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