Nkem Okocha
Nkem Okocha is a Nigerian Social Entrepreneur and Founder of Mamamoni, a fintech social enterprise focused on empowering financially underserved women in rural and urban areas with vocational skills and micro-loans. Nkem is dedicated to creating opportunities for low-income women in Africa by providing access to finance and skills development.
Through the Mamamoni web platform – www.mamamoni.com, socially inclined individuals can lend money to low-income women, to support their small businesses and save them the barriers of providing collaterals and request of transaction history imposed by financial institutions.
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Nkem Okocha obtained a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance from the Lagos State University and a certificate in Business and Entrepreneurship from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2017. She further obtained another certificate in Entrepreneurship from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship programme in 2015.
Nkem’s passion to promote financial inclusion among women led her to found Mamamoni in 2013. Through the social enterprise platform, Nkem has empowered several women across Nigeria to start up small businesses. So far, she has impacted and empowered over 7000 women in various communities and has given out over 100 micro-loans.
Prior to founding Mamamoni, Nkem worked as Managing Director at Bovine Koncept Ventures, an enterprise providing web development services, social media marketing and mobile messaging for small local businesses.
Nkem’s drive for social and community development has led her to volunteer for various organizations such as Intel Corporation, an online learning platform for women and girls; Project Inspire, a CSR and youth engagement initiative founded by MasterCard and the Singapore Committee for UN women; and World Pulse, a science and technology platform for women as well.
At Intel Corporations, Nkem is vested with the responsibility of empowering women and girls through technology and connecting them to life-changing opportunities. Also, working as the volunteer Country ambassador of Nigeria for Project Inspire has led her to generate publicity and learning about the work field of social enterprises in Nigeria.
Nkem has won several awards including the 2016 Outstanding LEAP Africa Social Innovator award by Union Bank. She is an alumnus of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI).