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Lightbox Session for this week: Scaling and Expanding your Products in the Agricultural Sector
Did you join our last #Lightbox session? We got more coming.
Tomorrow, we are bringing on a successful agropreneur to discuss with us on Scaling and Expanding your Products in the Agricultural Sector.
Adeola Balogun is the Founder & Chief Operations Officer at Limlim Foods Production Company Ltd. She is a Chartered Accountant with a passion for driving innovation, change and post-harvest loss reduction in the Agric food processing value chain in Africa.
She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
Adeola has over 20 years’ experience working in various capacities in 3 leading Financial institutions in Nigeria, in Unilever as well as in Cadbury as Head Commercial Finance and Head supply chain finance.
An Alumni of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperation(AWEC), Alumni of the Founders Institute. She-00 Award for outstanding achievements in business, Recognized by Business day as top 100 Fastest Growing SMEs in Nigeria.
We look forward to an explosive and interactive program next Thursday.
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Business
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AGS Quote of the Day
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.”
Rabbi Harold Kushner