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Affiong Williams
CEO, Reel Fruit

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Miss Affi is a graduate in physiology and psychology from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in business management from the same university. She also attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business where she took part in the Seed Transformation Program of 2018.

After her Postgraduate diploma, she worked with Endeavour South Africa from 2008 to 2012 where she rose to the position of Portfolio Manager. She returned to Nigeria in 2012 and started off ReelFruit, her own agribusiness. She is said to have started the company in her apartment in Surulere, with an initial savings of $8,000. Awards: Africa’s most promising Entrepreneurs (Forbes, 2015); International Women in Business Competition (Netherlands).

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