Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu is a Nigerian investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Heirs Holdings and chairman of the pan-African bank United Bank for Africa (UBA). tonyelumelu.com+1 In 2010 he launched the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), committing US $100 million over ten years to train, mentor and fund African entrepreneurs across all 54 countries.

Why he is our inspiration? Elumelu has helped shift focus from just building a business to building an ecosystem: enabling many young entrepreneurs across Africa, and championing the concept of “Africapitalism”, private sector entrepreneurship as a driver of social and economic transformation.