Temie Giwa-Tubosun
Temie Giwa-Tubosun, who was recently recognized by the prestigious Cartier Awards as the 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa Laureate is our WCW for today. The Cartier Women’s Initiative is an annual international entrepreneurship program that aims to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs.
Temie Giwa-Tubosun is a pioneer with over 9 years of management and health policy experience. She is the founder of LifeBank. LifeBank is a medical distribution company. Since its launch, the company has transported more than 20,000 units of blood and other medical products, served 450 hospitals, engaged 5,823 donors, and saved 6,757 lives. She has been phenomenally successful, and her progress speaks for itself with the number of accolades she continues to receive.
Prior to this, she was named the winner of Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize. The win for LifeBank was worth $250,000. The Prize got applications from more than 10,000 startups from 50 of Africa’s 54 countries. In May 2017, she was selected as part of “six entrepreneurs who demonstrate the positive role women are playing in creating opportunities and preparing the region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution” by the World Economic Forum on Africa.
On May 5, 2017, Temie Giwa-Tubosun was listed in the annual Quartz African Innovators List of “more than 30 Africans” who are “taking leadership and control in a wide range of fields including finance, healthcare, education, agriculture, design and many other fields. In March 2017, Giwa was named as one of the 100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria for 2017. In 2014, Temie Giwa-Tubosun was listed as one of the BBC 100 Women. She was the third Nigerian on the list, along with veteran broadcaster Funmi Iyanda and Obiageli Ezekwesili, Nigeria’s former minister of education. She was also the youngest on the list. She was described in the selection as someone “to take notice of now and in the future”, making a difference around the world by the BBC.
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Temie Giwa-Tubosun has consistently demonstrated that hard work, commitment and innovation is a formula that never fails. She has put her heart and her mind to her work despite numerous challenges. Beyond coordinating essential medical products, she has been very instrumental in the combat against COVID-19 through Life Bank’s partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in launching the COVID-19 mobile testing center.
Temi Giwa- Tubosun is obsessively optimistic about Nigeria and she is putting her work where her heart is. We are so proud and inspired.
To learn more, visit www.lifebank.ng