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Tunji Akintokun causes around Diversity, STEM and sport – provided Business, Corporates, Financiers & Entrepreneurs

Senior Vice President, NSC Global; Founder, bursaries for black students studying at the Universities
Ilesha Charitable Trust of Oxford, Warwick and UCL. It also sponsored events
such as the PRECIOUS Awards and the Association of BME
Engineers (AFBE-UK).
After almost 20 years, Tunji left Cisco, where he was a He is also a non-executive director of Regital, a digital
director, to join NSC Global a worldwide professional and marketing agency with offices in the UK and Australia,
managed services company to lead its sales organisation overseeing their expansion into emerging markets.
as Senior Vice President. Tunji founded his first Science and Technology (STEM)
He is an active and passionate advocate of diversity social enterprise in 2012 (the multi-award-winning Your
in the workplace, encouraging more young people from Future, Your Ambition), which was followed by his second
diverse backgrounds to study and pursue careers in STEM social enterprise, Aspire2Achieve, which connects
science and technology and social mobility by residing on young people in Africa, the US and UK with organisations
boards and councils including Grant Thornton, techUK, to educate and inspire them to follow a STEM career.
Teach First and Aspire2Achieve. Tunji is a patron of the autism charity CASPA, providing
He was awarded an MBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours inspirational activities and opportunities for children and
List for services to young people from ethnic minorities in young people with high-functioning autism.
science and technology. In 2017, he ran his second London Marathon, raising
An in-demand mentor and speaker, Tunji still finds time more than £5,000 for the AbleChildAfrica charity.
to mentor at least 10 people a year. His Ilesha Charitable He holds a Master of Science degree in Information
Trust – set up in the memory of his parents to support Systems from London’s Southbank University.

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