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Fantastic to have
Ugo Anyanwu on
MaximizingProgress.tv tonight!
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After his engineering studies back home in
Nigeria, Ugo shifted to accountancy and finance sector rising to being CFO of a publicly traded bank operating in West Africa. This past year he's been in MIT's
Sloan Fellows program where I got to know him and of his interest in combining the blossoming technology of
Mobiles with the key sector of
Finance. Over 60% of Nigerians use mobile phones, but merely 10% have bank accounts. These facts spell both "big" and "opportunity" which is precisely what Ugo's been exploring for his next professional moves. Nigeria's a fantastically interesting country, with biggest population in Africa -- over 150M, i.e. half-US -- with a half-dozen megacities, including
Lagos, the largest conurbation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a huge oil-export sector (supplying over 10% of US imports), and a booming economy with biggest mobiles growth numbers and
Nollywood, the second-largest media cluster on the planet (behind
Bollywood, India, but ahead of
Hollywood, USA). With Nigeria -- and booming
Commonwealth Africa -- as target markets, Ugo's well-positioned for his entrepreneurial next-steps!
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