Our Leadership is made up of distinguished professionals with many years of experience in management, business, strategy, entrepreneurial, policy, International relations, and development of technology & innovation.
Prof. Jmaiel MOHAMED
Co-Founder & Chairman

Prof. Jmaiel MOHAMED
Co-Founder & Chairman
Mohamed JMAIEL obtained his diploma of engineer in Computer Science from Kiel (Germany) University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin in 1996. He is, since 2009, full Professor in Computer Science at the National School of Engineers of Sfax (Tunisia). He participated to the initiation of many graduate courses at the University of Sfax. His current research areas include software engineering of distributed systems, formal methods in model-driven architecture, self-adaptive and pervasive systems, autonomic middleware. He conducted many research projects and published more than 260 regular and invited papers in international conferences and journals, and has co-edited six conferences proceedings and five journals special issues on these subjects. He organized and co-chaired the program committees of many international conferences, like MCSEAI’2004, CRiSIS’2009, NOTERE’2010, OPODIS’2010, WETICE’2013, VECOS’2016, ESBM’2017, and ICTAC’2019. He was director of the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), from 2011 to 2014. Currently, he is the general director of the digital research center at the Technopark of Sfax. More details are available on his home page: http://www.redcad.org/members/jmaiel/
Mr. Kenneth Efetobor IZOMOH
Co-Founder & C.E.O

Mr. Kenneth Efetobor IZOMOH
Co-Founder & C.E.O
Mr Kenneth Izomoh is a digital strategist, and an ExO advisor, with a focus on digital transformation, leadership, exponential strategy and innovation. He has extensive experience in AI, Augmented reality, IoT, Satellite & GNSS innovation solutions, business, and market positioning. He is an astute entrepreneur and has more than 22 years of experience in ICT innovation & industry. He has consulted more than 20 EU H2020 ICT development projects for Europe and Africa; and managed business developments related activities in cloud platforms for many economic sectors namely e-health, e-tourism, e-agriculture, oil-&-gas, e-energy, Environment, Circular Economy, smart mobility & insurance, enterprise solutions, e-commerce, factories of the future, and smart manufacturing under industry 4.0 enterprise initiatives.
Over the years, Mr Izomoh served in high profile ICT consulting companies helping clients to achieve exponential growth, offering advisory support to innovation hubs, senior executives, and supporting conceptualization of innovation products’ & designs, value chain optimization schemes, and innovation studies for a number of private and public clients. He also acted in the past as an event manager related to the dissemination & continental networking of stakeholders’ in view of turnkey ICT programmes and entrepreneurship related to EU and Africa joint collaborations.
Mr. Marcin JABLONSKI
Co-FOUNDER & ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Mr. Marcin JABLONSKI
Co-FOUNDER & ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
• President of Connection Point International Ltd.
• Vice-President of Chamber of Commerce Exporters and Importers in Mysłowice (PL)
• Co-founder of Connection Point Africa in Tunis (TUN).
• Co-founder and board member of Algerian-Polish Social and Economic Council
• Partner of African Hope association (Morocco, Cote d'Ivoire)
• Member of Silesian Innovation Council (PL)
• Expert in Clustering, Networking, Innovations and Internationalization.
• Expert of Upper Silesian Agency for Entrepreneurship Development in Gliwice (PL)
• Expert and Partner of National Forest Center in Zvolen (SK)
• Expert of Polish, Slovak and Czech Agencies and R+D institutions.
• Partner of Turkich and Chinese Business organizations.
Mrs. Afef BELHAJ
DIRECTOR North Africa & Women In Tech

Mrs. Afef BELHAJ
DIRECTOR North Africa & Women In Tech
Mrs. Afef Belhaj (Orange, Tunisia)
Passionate about technology, Afef Belhaj studied telecommunication engineering. Mobile operators became her field of expertise throughout her carrier. Graduated from Sup'Com, a reputed Tunisian engineering school, she has chosen to strengthen her knowledge through an MBA in a prestigious school in Britain.
With 15 years of experience in telecoms, Afef has been managing since 2016 an Orange Group entity based in Tunis, Orange Labs Tunisia, within Sofrecom Tunisia. Her team of around 150 young Tunisian engineers designs and deploys innovative platforms to serve the Group's subsidiaries around the world, in Europe and in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Afef also contributes to strengthening the link between the business world and the Tunisian university by encouraging university initiatives and innovation projects.
Rosemary Mapuranga
DIRECTOR Southern Africa

Rosemary Mapuranga
DIRECTOR Southern Africa
Hydroponics Farming Expert
Hiwotie Anberbir
DIRECTOR Eastern Africa

Hiwotie Anberbir
DIRECTOR Eastern Africa
Moussa MBAYE
DIRECTOR Francophone Africa

Moussa MBAYE
DIRECTOR Francophone Africa
Mr. Moussa MBAYE is a senior expert on Geomatics, GIS and GNSS innovation and impact management. His key competences include designing; developing and implementing geodatabase for several clients such are international organisations, public administrations and companies. For GNSS activities he was trained by the first SAFIR Working Session in Dakar on EGNOS SBAS in 2013 and receiving update via the JPO Head on future satellites development. He was also involved in the EU funded project AIA (GNSS - Awareness in Africa) project during 2013 and 2014, and he supervised two African students’ papers on the project. He led key activities towards all the workshop preparations, and presented speeches on GNSS and GPS realities and perspectives in Senegal and defended the deliverable D13 on the project development preliminary schemes. Moussa also presented during the workshops a web-application on iodate salt and enabling the products distribution’s products and actors tracking (SIGCDSI 2017-2018). It elaborated on the design, functional aspects and most importantly facilitating dematerialization process of national social Security institutions (PHMSI 2019). He has demonstrated great experience in applied remote sensing in several African projects funded by the UN, as a GIS expert on data collection, analysis, mapping, reporting and was involved also in training sessions of the African stakeholders.
Moussa is based in Senegal and a representative of ADL-INNET in Western Africa; he speaks both English and French perfectly. He leads all ADL-INNET activities on dissemination, webinars, and networking in West Africa as the coordination focal point, assisting, promoting and monitoring cluster registration progress through the portal and engages with the local stakeholders on digital leadership and innovation initiatives. Moussa has a Master’s degree in Geography and Environment Management from the Lille 1 Science and Technology University (year 2003), Lille, France. |
Evans EDEBOR
DIRECTOR Western Africa

Evans EDEBOR
DIRECTOR Western Africa
With an impressive background spanning over 12 years in various sectors, including manufacturing, multinational non-profit, Information Technology, management consulting, intra-African trade advisory and SMEs space, Evans brings a wealth of expertise and a passion for driving economic growth, sustainable development, African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) participation & inclusion across communities and demographics in over 46 African Countries/African Union member States.