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10th Anniversary Special

We told you they were

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FUTURE LEADERS!

decade of Future Leaders has seen almost 1000 university single person who has made their mark here – there are many,
students and new graduates featured in these pages over and in a plethora of industries, both here and abroad – as that
A the past 10 years. And we are proud to say that we sure would have meant producing an encyclopaedia-sized publication.
do know how to pick them. It’s an amazing feeling to see our But the fact that our success stories are so full and so many that
predictions about these young people as ‘leaders of the future’ we couldn’t do them justice by attempting to list them all in this
fulfilled day by day. We constantly come across articles, social magazine, actually says a whole lot!
media posts, emails and other accounts both verbal and To mark our 10th year, here is a ‘highlight reel’ of how our
written, showcasing the achievements of yet another Future Future Leaders have fared after appearing in the magazine.
Leaders alumnus who is doing something great, and often in the And for any young person reading this, these individuals were
process, impacting and making the lives of others better. What once where you are now, so it’s worth noting that with hard work
a wonderful legacy that is! Unfortunately we couldn’t list every and dedication, you too can make a difference!

LORRAINE WRIGHT, Africa. By 2017, they had already provided
Director, UBS and 395,820 years’ worth of clean water to
Co-Founder of UV Booking Agency, Founder, 23,363 people. The social enterprise,
University Gospel Choir which is based in the UK, has become
of the Year UK and Ghana extremely popular, donating over £144K
Lorraine appeared in the very first edition to fund 25 clean water pumps in Africa
of Future Leaders. A first-class graduate and eliminating the use of over 45 million
from the University of Brunel, she became plastic bottles and cups. GiveMeTap
a director at UBS just four years after bottles can now be refilled in 817 shops
leaving university and while still under the in The Water Network. The success of
age of 25. Within her role as a director, Edwin’s social enterprise has led to
she has spent a year working in the US him being featured in countless media
and three years working in Switzerland. publications, including CNN, The Times,
Outside of her day job, she is founder of Huffington Post and Metro. In 2013 he
the University Gospel Choir of the Year gave a TEDxYouth@Hackney talk about
(UGCY) UK and Ghana, and successfully “How being selfish can help others”.
scaled it from a primarily London-based In 2018 he won a special one-off Shell
universities event to a nationwide, LORRAINE WRIGHT LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award at the
televised event within one year and an NACUE Business Not as Usual event
international event within six years. for his business.
Over the past eight years, UGCY has
worked with over 5500 students from cinema experience – to name but a few. FEMI FADUGBA
more than 40 UK and 20 Ghanaian Lorraine holds an Exec.MBA with Associate Principal, CrossBoundary
universities, with the event airing on UK Distinction from the University of Oxford, Following his feature in the 2010-2011
Sky channel 239 and broadcast in Ghana Said Business School. edition of Future Leaders, Femi went on to
as a six-part episode reality TV series. obtain a Masters in Public Administration
UGCY was a great launch pad for the EDWIN BRONI-MENSAH in Public Finance from the University of
highly successful UV Talent Booking Founder and CEO, GiveMeTap Pennsylvania. During this time he was
Agency, a music talent and event Edwin was our first number one Future able to gain some experience in the
management agency arm of UGCY which Leader back in 2010. After completing field of energy, working for The Boston
supplies gospel choirs, backing vocalists, his PhD in Applied Mathematics, Edwin Consulting Group in Chicago. Femi
musicians and event professionals to TV briefly worked in the financial sector. relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, where he
shows and commercials, corporate events, After that, he devoted himself completely further established his career in energy.
weddings, music recordings etc. Lorraine is to his social enterprise, GiveMeTap. The He began a job with Cross Boundary LLC,
co-founder of this company with notable founder of the enterprise, Edwin is also a renewable energy investment fund for
clients including ITV primetime TV shows known as “The Water Guy”. From the Africa, where he now undertakes the role
the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent birth of GiveMeTap to October 2017, the of Associate Principal. During his time
(where UGCY/UV Talent have been the social enterprise had already made a huge with Cross Boundary, Femi has spoken at
exclusive supplier of backing choirs and impact. The mission of GiveMeTap is “to a number of events focused on the topic
singers since 2012). UV Talent has also make clean drinking water available to of renewable energy in Africa, including
supplied artists to the BBC Proms, everyone, everywhere.” This is achieved Clean Energy Summit Africa and Kenya
The Voice, Text Santa, Beats by Dre TV through the sale of BPA-free stainless Renewable Energy Congress. In 2017, he
commercials, the Beats by Dre, ‘We are steel water bottles. For every bottle wrote a piece for the Financial Times:
the City’ Award show, the Taste of London purchased, the company gives five years This Is Africa on how West African
food festival and the Sister Act Live of clean drinking water to someone in businesses can use solar energy as an

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