Celebrating Excellence: A Panel Discussion with Leading CEOs
With Subject Matter Experts
Debo Omololu, CEO/Co-Founder, GetFundedAfrica
Scott Drossos, CEO, Apogee
Thierry Hyppolite, CEO, nuTV
Debo Omololu
Debo Omololu is the CEO & co-founder of GetFundedAfrica, a tech-based marketplace connecting African founders with global mentors, coaches, corporates, investors, and government. It assists founders in finding funding, growing and scaling, creating jobs, and solving Africa's unique challenges. GetFundedAfrica aims to uplift people and economies in Africa through entrepreneurship.
Additionally, Debo is an intrapreneur and entrepreneur with two decades of experience in business development, market research, and venture capital, focusing on strategy, fundraising, venture capital, business & product development, sales planning, and providing market insights on emerging markets.
Before launching GetFundedAfrica, he worked in the banking, financial, and tax sectors, where he developed and honed salient skills in fundraising, market research, business planning, strategic analysis, alternative investments, educational technology, artificial intelligence, tax accounting, management, entrepreneurship & leadership; most of which continue to serve him well in his current chief executive role.
CEO & Co-Founder, GetFundedAfrica
Scott Drossos
Scott is a passionate and successful leader with extensive experience in technology services and a broad range of cloud and network services in higher education and other public sector and commercial market segments. Scott joined Austin, TX-based Apogee as CEO in September of 2021. Apogee is the leading managed technology services provider in higher education.
Under Scott’s leadership, Apogee has experienced substantial growth while achieving impressive client NPS scores and improved eNPS employee scores. Scott is proud that Apogee has achieved high-quality client experience and retention while rapidly growing. Scott shared, “behind the amazing people of Apogee nation, we continue to innovate and evolve our portfolio of managed technology services to ensure Apogee stays leading edge.” Recently under Scott’s leadership, Apogee acquired SoCal-based Cumulus Technologies, a leading cloud services company serving higher education, to broaden its depth further and accelerate its growth.
CEO, Apogee
Thierry Hyppolite
Thierry started his professional career in 2002 at DHL as Sales Manager after moving to the banking industry for two years as a Customer Service Supervisor. Thierry was called upon again by DHL, where he was Administrator / Human Resources and then Operations Manager before migrating to Voila (Telecom Operator in Haiti), where he was Director of Customer Service for five years.
Thierry also has an international certification in Customer Operations Management (COPC), and in Project Management (PMI®️) and applied his expertise for HAINET (Internet Service Provider) as General Manager from 2014 to 2020. Certified in Salesforce and Digital Transformation, Thierry founded EDGE CONSULTING in 2020. He intends to use all his knowledge and experience to benefit organizations to help them thrive in the new digital arena. Thierry has also recently been appointed CEO of Digital Satellite System (NuTV), 2021, one of Haiti's top TV Broadcasting companies.
CEO, nuTV
Thierry Hyppolite
