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A BRIEF ABOUT REMY CHUKWUNYERE

Remy Chukwunyere is an entrepreneur, leadership and business coach with over 22 years’ experience working in both government and non-profit sectors.

Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Ugwumba Center for Leadership Development in Africa, an organization whose mission is to raise a new generation of leaders and entrepreneurs for Africa. As the Project Director of the annual idea pitching and grant competition called the Ugwumba Enterprise Challenge, see https://www.enterprisechallenge.ugwumbaleaders.org, he has led the discovery, training and supported the birth of over 5,000 startups and SMEs in Nigeria since inception in 2018.

To enable him showcase investment-ready startups in Nigeria to global investors in Europe, UK, USA, etc, the IDEAX Ventures UK appointed him their Global Ambassador for Nigeria. This singular appointment has birthed a community of startups and investors in Africa, called IDEAX Africa at www.ideaxafrica.hatcher.com

As a global visibility strategist, he was recently appointed as the Policy and Strategy Advisor for the Rochas Foundation, a charity organization that has awarded scholarships and trained over 25,000 children from less privileged families in Nigeria and Africa.

Between 2014 and 2019, Remy Chukwuwnyere served the Imo State Government of Nigeria as the Director General, Imo State Directorate for Employment and Job Center under the Office of the Governor, where he created a virile startups ecosystem in the state.

Mr. Remy’s early sojourn into the Corporate World started in 1999, while serving as a Youth Corper at the NNPC- Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Kaduna Area Office. There, he founded the African Youth Development Foundation, which has today successfully partnered with some local and international organizations, including the USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives; UK DFID Markets Development in the Niger Delta; Imo State Government of Nigeria; etc in a number of capacity building programs for youths, teachers and farmers in Imo State.

It is remarkable to point out here that four years after graduating from the University, Mr. Remy Chukwunyere was appointed to serve the Imo State Government of Nigeria as the Executive Secretary, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Council, between 2004 and 2007.

He is a Federal University of Technology, Owerri trained Industrial Biochemist who later discovered his passion in the development sector.

He holds an Executive MBA degree from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, USA and a Masters of Arts degree in Public Governance and Leadership from the TETFUND Center of Excellence in Public Governance and Leadership, University of Abuja Leadership Center.

As an entrepreneur, Remy Chukwunyere has interests in Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Fintech, etc and very much open for business connections across the globe.

He is a published author with some of his books on sale at https://www.amazon.com/author/remychukwunyere For more information about him, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/remychukwunyere