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Technology Marieme Jamme

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

Marieme is the CEO of SpotOne Global Solutions, an
organisation that 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, EY and at one time, 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.
In 2018, Marieme became a founding member of the Future
Talks Expedition, which gathered 100 global leaders from 42
countries to visit the North Pole. She is the first Senegalese
woman who has made it to the Arctic.
She has previously teamed up with Nigerian billionaire Tony
Elumelu as a select committee member and adviser for his
$100million Entrepreneurship Programme.
In August 2018, she visited Kenya as one of 16 World
Economic Forum Young Global Leaders to meet refugees. She
was there to help young people to focus on education.
She was also a judge on the 2019 Royal Academy of the
£25,000 Engineering Africa Prize which gives an award for the
best engineering innovation coming out of Africa.
In September 2017, Marieme won the Innovation Award
at the Global Goals Awards by UNICEF as well as the Bill
NEW Ije Nwokorie and Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeeper for her work in
2020 advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development
Senior Director, Apple Goals. She was later named on the BBC 100 Women, the
corporation’s list of the most inspirational and influential
Ije joined Apple as a senior director in 2017, having been women in the world.
global CEO of international brand consultancy Wolff Olins Other notable roles include sitting on the board of
for more than three years. There, he led the business across directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, an advisory
its offices in Dubai, San Francisco, London and New York. board member of Data Pop Alliance and co-founder of Africa
He originally studied architecture, first in Nigeria and Gathering, one of the leading platforms in Europe that enables
then at Columbia in New York. Ije moved into strategy and businesses, governments, investors and entrepreneurs to share
innovation and in 2006 joined Wolff Olins in London as ideas about Africa for positive change.
senior strategist, going on to become Strategy Director until
his move to MD and then CEO.
During the course of his career he has worked on urban
regeneration projects in Africa, special effects in New York
and computer gaming in London.
His passion lies in interpreting business problems as
creative challenges and facilitating groups to do something
new, exciting and meaningful. A ‘people-watcher’, he is
fascinated by culture and how everything we do in life is a
manifestation of how we see ourselves as social beings.
He has spoken widely about branding, which he describes
as an increasingly ‘messy’ business that is less about a
perfect, finished set of guidelines and more a collaborative
process whereby the brand consultancy works with the
client to prompt and inspire. “If you think about the processes
that matter to people – democracy, relationships, change – they
are all very messy things,” he says. “What you are doing is
using design as an instigator or a disruptor to encourage people
to break the norm; to do something different because that is
what brands have to do.”
Ije is a trustee of Water UK and Malaria No More UK, and
serves on the advisory board for Little Sun, the solar phone
charger designed by artist Olafur Eliasson.

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