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Dubai Forum: African business leaders make mentorship list

&NewLine;<p>Eight&NewLine;prominent business leaders have been selected to mentor high-potential startups&NewLine;from the UAE and Africa participating in Dubai Chamber of Commerce and&NewLine;Industry’s Global Business Forum &lpar;GBF&rpar; Mentorship Programme&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Four UAE-based mentors and four Africa-based mentors have joined the&NewLine;first-of-its-kind programme which aims to foster cross-border cooperation&NewLine;between the two startup communities and help participants expand their global&NewLine;presence&period; The selected mentors offer a wealth of expertise in a wide range of&NewLine;fields&comma; including&comma; technology&comma; education&comma; retail&comma; construction and finance&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;According to a release by by APO Group&comma; made available to OpenLife&comma; all of the&NewLine;mentors have a proven track record in building business and driving the growth&NewLine;of startups companies&period; As part of the programme&comma; the UAE-based mentors will&NewLine;team up with the selected African startups and guide them over a three-month&NewLine;period&comma; while the Africa-based mentors will do the same for the UAE startups&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Following the mentorship phase of the programme&comma; the participating startups&NewLine;will have an opportunity to exhibit at the 5th&nbsp&semi;Global Business Forum on&NewLine;Africa in Dubai on November 18th-19th&nbsp&semi;2019 and boost their exposure within&NewLine;UAE and African markets and business communities&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;The eight mentors joining the programme are&colon; Aboyeji Iyinoluwa&comma; Managing&NewLine;Partner at Street Capital&semi; Chris Folayan&comma; Founder and CEO of Mall for Africa&semi;&NewLine;Eghosa Omoigui&comma; Founder and managing Partner of EchoVC&semi; Jonathan Berman&comma; CEO of&NewLine;J&period;E&period; Berman Associates&semi; Nassib Boueri&comma; CEO of Wunderman MENA&semi; Chris Thomas&comma;&NewLine;CO-CEO and Co-founder of Eureeca&semi; Cynthia Corby&comma; the Middle East Construction&NewLine;Industry Leader for Deloitte and Nader Amiri&comma; Founder and CEO of el Grocer&semi;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;The GBF Mentorship Programme is an extension of Dubai Chamber’s Global Business&NewLine;Forum on Africa platform and event series&period; Prior to the selection of the&NewLine;participating mentors and startups&comma; the first-ever Chamberthon event was held&NewLine;in Kigali&comma; Rwanda&comma; earlier this year which was joined by 20 UAE and African&NewLine;startups that collaborated to develop the foundation and structure of the&NewLine;mentorship programme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Dubai&NewLine;Chamber of Commerce &amp&semi; Industry&comma; &nbsp&semi;a&NewLine;non-profit public entity&comma; &nbsp&semi;was established&NewLine;in 1965 with an honest mission &nbsp&semi;to&NewLine;represent&comma; support and protect the interests of the business community in Dubai&NewLine;by creating a favourable business environment&comma; supporting the development of&NewLine;business&comma; and by promoting Dubai as an international business hub&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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