Academic Advisor / Chair Investor-Experts Panel / Head Mentor

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  Professor Rickie A. Moore

  Professor of Entrepreneurship Director, MSc in Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  emlyon business school
  France
  

Judges

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  Nireti Adebayo

  CEO
  Whyte Cleon Limited
  Nigeria
  
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  Peter Bamkole

  Director, Enterprise Development Centre
  Pan-Atlantic University
  Nigeria
  
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  Anil Benard-Dende

  Deputy General Director
  Kedge Business School
  France
  
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  Dr. Ola Brown

  Founder
  Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company
  USA
  
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  Ashifi Gogo

  Founder & CEO
  Sproxil, Inc
  USA
  
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  Tim Mescon

  Executive Vice President and Chief Officer of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Headquarters
  AACSB International
  Netherlands
  
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  Austin Okere

  Founder & Vice Chairman
  Computer Warehouse Group Plc.
  Nigeria
  
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  Julienne Shields

  President and CEO
  United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
  USA
  
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  Darius Teter

  Executive Director
  Stanford Seed
  USA
  
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  Philip Thigo

  Director for Africa
  Thunderbird School for Global Management, Arizona State University
  USA
  
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  Yoadan Tilahun 

  Founder and CEO
  Flawless Events
  Ethiopia
  
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  Joanne Mwangi-Yelbert

  CEO
  PMS Group Ltd
  Kenya
  

The Investors

During Round 1, business experts, Judges, faculty mentors, and academics will be invited to participate as Investors on the Peaqs platform. The Investor role is always an individual role.

Each Investor starts out with 10.000 credits to trade with and each team project starts with a basic valuation of 100 credits. The virtual stock market has been reigned in somewhat compared to a normal stock market, so it doesn’t encourage speculation in the mere dynamics of a stock market. You can only invest once and divest once per project per phase. So, in case you can’t buy/sell it could be because you have exceeded your trading limits and you’ll have to wait for a new phase to open, where you can re-adjust your investments. Investor Experts will be alerted via email when a new phase opens and you can allocate credits again. Investors are asked to review each student team project’s progress during two investment rounds and submit reflections, feedback and any questions they have for the student team.

Each Phase has a set time frame. At the end of each phase, student teams will upload the content requested in that particular phase before the deadline. Once the deadline passes, the investing round begins. After all phases are complete, the top 6 projects with the highest valuation from the stock market and the highest judging rank will advance to the Finals Round. 

Top Investor Expert

This year we will be acknowledging the most engaged Investor Expert, as Investor Experts play a critical role in the overall competition learning experience.  Investor Experts are individuals acting as Investors in the Peaqs marketplace. These individuals also provide feedback and recommendations for the teams as they invest or divest in projects within each phase. GBSN and Peaqs will be tracking involvement to identify an individual who provides the most feedback as they invest or divest on the marketplace. Breadth and depth of feedback and recommendations will also be considered.

This Top Investor Expert will receive $500 to use towards courses on Coursera, a massive open online course provider.  Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects. 

Investor Experts from Team Aquatrac

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  Peter Igberaese

  Founder
  Aquatrac Nutrition
  Nigeria
  
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  Temitope Osunrinde

  Founder
  Aquatrac Nutrition
  Nigeria
  
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  Oginni Olalekan Oladimeji

  Founder
  Aquatrac Nutrition
  Nigeria
  

Faculty Mentors

Though optional, teams are encouraged to have a faculty mentor. A faculty mentor’s primary role is to comment and provide guidance on their designated team project on the Peaqs platform. This candidate should be within the academic community and can be mentors for more than one team. Mentors will work with their respective student team throughout the five phases within Round 1. Each phase allows for investor feedback in addition to your feedback as a faculty mentor. Faculty mentors are advised to review investor feedback with their student team in each phase. 

The top six student teams will pitch LIVE to a panel of international judges from business, academia and civil society. 

Should their student team advance to the finals round, the faculty mentor should work with their team to prepare a pitch presentation that will be delivered LIVE to the panel of judges. After each presentation, students should be prepared to answer questions during a 15 minute Q&A period.