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Marieme Jamme Technology

CEO, SpotOne Global Solutions; Advisory Board
Member, Data-Pop Alliance

Marieme’s career has taken big strides over the past 12
months. In September 2017, she won the Innovation Award
at the Global Goals Awards by UNICEF as well as the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeeper for her work in
advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
She was later named on the BBC 100 Women, the
corporation’s list of the most inspirational and influential
woman in the world.
Marieme is the CEO of SpotOne Global Solutions, an
organisation which helps companies gain a foothold in
Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Her client list
includes some of the most powerful companies and people
in the world, including Google, Ernst and Young and the
Obama administration.
The Senegal-born Brit is also the founder of iConscience,
which enables business experts and like-minded
individuals to share their expertise and experience in the
name of sustainability, development, ethics and morals.
Other notable roles include sitting on the board of
directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, an advisory
board member of Data Pop Alliance and co-founder of
Africa Gathering, one of the leading platforms in Europe Martin Ijaha
that enables businesses, governments, investors and
entrepreneurs to share ideas about Africa for positive change. Founder, Neybur
Marieme has collected many accolades and awards,
including being honoured as a Global Visionary by UBS
Bank, being named by Forbes as one of the 20 youngest Martin’s company, Neybur, has been growing from strength
powerful women in Africa and named a Young Global to strength in the past 12 months, with recognition from
Leader by the World Economic Forum for her activism work some of the top names in his industry.
in empowering and investing in young girls and women in Neybur was named one of the leading global Fintech
Africa through creative learning, entrepreneurship, science, companies in the KPMG/H2 Ventures Fintech 100 list. In
technology, engineering, art, mathematics and design. September 2017, Goldman Sachs invested $100million debt
and equity financing in the company.
The company also raised £21million in new equity in
the closing of its series C funding round. The investment
was made by Wadhawan Global Capital, a leading Indian
financial services group.
Neybur was also named as a Finalist of the 2017 BAI
Global Innovation Awards and the WSB Awards for Benefits
Innovation of the Year, while Martin featured on Business
Insider’s 35 under 35 UK fintech list.
Martin set up his company based on African and
Caribbean models of saving and borrowing that he learnt
while growing up.
He initially started with a year-long partnership with the
not-for-profit financial service provider to the police family,
Police Mutual. The company raised £2.5million in seed
financing in 2015 to launch its consumer lending programme
in January 2016.
The London-based company, with a growing team of 70
employees, is a cloud-based service that works with UK
employers to offer their employees access to affordable
borrowing directly from their salaries. The loans, which are
of no cost to employers, range from £500 to £25,000.
Martin previously worked as a Senior Investment
Associate at H.I.G. Capital and at Lehman Brothers and
Goldman Sachs.

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