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Esosa Ighodaro-Johnson is Nigerian-American tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Black Women Talk Tech and COSIGN. She is known for co-founding Black Women Talk Tech, an organization that aims to bridge critical knowledge gaps and unite Black women tech and scalable business founders across the United States.

Early life and education
Esosa Ighodaro was born in England and raised in Nigeria. She spent most of her childhood in Lagos before moving to the United States for college. Esosa attended the Fox School of Business at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance in 2008. After completing her studies, she went on to work in corporate banking with Citigroup.

Career
Ighodaro worked in banking and finance before she pivoted to the tech industry.

She is a co-founder of Black Women Talk Tech, a platform aimed at empowering black women to create billion-dollar tech companies. Her work at past companies have been recognized in various articles and awards, including being named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2019, and one of the Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch by Paste Magazine.

Ighodaro is also the co-founder of CoSign, a mobile app that allows users monetize their social media content, and a cofounder of Pinnacle; a business in a box web solution for women entrepreneurs.

She now resides in New York, NY with her husband.

Black Women Talk Tech
Black Women Talk Tech was founded in 2017 by Regina Gwynn, Esosa Ighodaro and Lauren Washington. It's a platform that provides resources, support and a network for black women in tech. Black Women Talk Tech conference is now the largest convening of Black women tech entrepreneurs, technologists, investors and professionals.