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Name: Nneile Sandra Alexandrina Nkholise Nneile was born in Roma, Lesotho and grew up in Thaba Nchu, South Africa raised by a single mum.

Her primary school at Tlotlanang Combined School in South Africa, paved her path into innovation, entrepreneurship and understanding African renaissance and African development.

Nneile then attended Mariasdal High School in South Africa and went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering at Central University of Technology - her research focussed on the applications of additive manufacturing in fabricating medical prosthesis.

At the age of 27, Nneile became the Founder & Director of iMED Tech Group (a South African company) which uses Additive Manufacturing (AM) to design breast and facial prostheses for cancer and burn victims. iMED TEch Group only employ African women under the age of 30 with research backgrounds in mechanical engineering. iMed Tech was inspired by Nneile's Masters research, she had gone to a hospital in Bloemfontein to do practical work with the research team and at that moment, seeing a lot of patients, she felt she needed to build a business that will impact more than one person but a large number of people. The demand for prostheses is so high and the current methods for manufacturing them couldn’t meet these demands. To meet this challenge Nneile decided to start a company. She believes there is a huge gap between academics and businesses as many of the research findings are never exposed for commercialization. She saw the need to take her research findings to the market.