Kodjo Adovor
Kodjo is the CEO and Founder of Unscramble Africa. He is an entrepreneur with experience building businesses and many year of experience across investment banking, management consulting, and business development. Prior to starting Unscramble Africa and AfriCollateral Ltd., he was VP and Global Head of Commodities and Credit Derivatives Product Valuation at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Houston, New York, and London.
He is a certified wine sommelier and is the first and only African certified Vinitaly Italian Wine Ambassador. He started Africa Wine Academy to train young Africans working in restaurants, hotels, and hospitality in wines and spirits. Africa Wine Academy is currently the only WSET APP (Wine & Spirit Education Trust Approved Program Partner) in West Africa.
Kodjo has an MBA from the Yale University School of Management with a focus in Strategy and Asset Management. He holds a Master of Science degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from Hampton University.
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Shari Hammond
Shari Hammond is an international development specialist and strategic advisor with over ten years of experience working at the intersection of culture, inclusion, and sustainable development across Africa. She advises creative and cultural institutions, as well as development finance institutions, on inclusive financing, fundraising readiness, and institutional development.
She is the Founder of Zaria Horizons, a boutique consulting firm established in Ghana in 2016 to support African creative ecosystems. Through Zaria Horizons, Shari has worked with artists, cultural institutions, policymakers, and private-sector actors to strengthen creative ecosystems through gender mainstreaming, inclusion strategies, research, policy development, and capacity building.
Her work focuses on bridging creativity and financial sustainability, supporting artists and creative enterprises to develop fundable, long-term models through strategic fundraising, partnerships, and governance. Shari brings a strong pan-African and multicultural perspective, with experience across Anglophone and Francophone Africa, and holds advanced degrees in law, public administration, and gender and development.
Sven Bullaert
Sven is a Belgian impact entrepreneur, designer, and artist working at the intersection of art, creative entrepreneurship, and social change.
Trained as an industrial designer, he built an international career in fashion and brand creation before gradually shifting his focus toward system change, regeneration, and the role of art in a rapidly transforming world.
A bridge-builder between disciplines and cultures, Sven holds a deep belief in the exceptional creative intelligence of the African continent, a vision shaped in close dialogue with his partner, Nigerian writer Angel Patricks Amegbe.
As initiator of the Ghana Charter, he invited European textile leaders to confront the realities of overconsumption and translate awareness into concrete commitments for change.
Today, Sven works internationally as an advisor, speaker, and creative catalyst, supporting artists, organizations, and communities in shaping more humane futures. His gentle addictions include photography, spiritual development, and collecting books he already knows he will never finish reading.
Kofi D. Fynn
Kofi D. Fynn is the Managing Director of Petra. Before founding Petra Trust in 2011, Kofi spent 14 years in the asset management industry in Nigeria and the US.
From 2008 to 2010, Kofi was Chief Operating Officer in charge of Asset Management at Oceanic Capital Company Limited (“OCCL”), the investment banking subsidiary of Oceanic Bank International Plc. Kofi joined OCCL from Wellington Management Company in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was an associate partner. As the lead portfolio manager for central banks and international organization mandates, Kofi managed a portfolio totaling $4 billion in assets.
Before joining Wellington Management, Kofi worked at BlackRock Financial Management. At Blackrock, he led the team responsible for the management of risk in all the firm’s leveraged vehicles.
Kofi earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Before joining Wellington Management, Kofi worked at BlackRock Financial Management, a global asset management firm with over $3.6 trillion under management. At Blackrock he led the team responsible for the management of risk in all of the firm’s leveraged vehicles.
Kofi earned both a bachelor's and a master’s degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
N’Goné Fall
N’Goné Fall is a Senegalese independent curator and cultural policy specialist, trained at the École Spéciale d’ Architecture in Paris, where she graduated with honours. She served as editorial director of Revue Noire (1994–2001), the first contemporary African art magazine in Paris, and has edited major publications on African art and photography.
She has curated exhibitions across Africa, Europe, and the United States, including guest curating the Bamako and Dakar biennales (2001–2002), and a major 2016 group exhibition in Denmark inspired by Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Fall has authored strategic plans and evaluation reports for leading international institutions such as the Prince Claus Foundation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, among others.
An experienced academic, she has taught at institutions including Senghor University in Alexandria, the Michaelis School of Arts in Cape Town, and Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey. In 2018, she was appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron as General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, which featured over 1,500 events across 210 cities in France.
She serves on the boards of ART X Lagos, the Lagos Biennale, C&, ICA Cape Town, and the Nesr Foundation, and curated the carte blanche for El Anatsui’s first solo exhibition in France as part of Africa2020.
Wendy Maldonado D’Amico
Wendy Maldonado D'Amico is a remote consultant with expertise in marketing, communications, events, and community building. Her experience spans both the private and non-profit sectors, and she has worked in fields as diverse as management consulting, technology, investment banking, consumer products, economic development, and higher education. Clients have included Listen4Good, 1863 Ventures, the Yale Alumni Association, MIT Sloan, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, The Boston Consulting Group, SAP, MBI Inc., and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston Children's Hospital. She is the former Executive Director of Accelerate Yale and Yale Angels. She also recently completed five years of service on the YAA Board of Governors, preceded by five years as Secretary of the Yale College Class of 1993. She holds a BA in English from Yale, an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.