Charles Odii

Charles Odii is a Nigerian entrepreneur, author and developmental consultant. He is the founder of SME100Africa. Africa's foremost social enterprise founded to ensure young entrepreneurs in Africa succeed regardless of their socio-economic background. Through SME100Africa Charles has successfully trained over 11,205, young entrepreneurs, organised 7 annual young entrepreneur incubator programs with over 10,800 applications from 30 countries.  injected $50,000 into youth led businesses and have facilitated investments of almost $1million into those same businesses. His global work experience covers impact investment, financial technology, health, education, manufacturing, entertainment, aviation, fashion and technology consulting. He sits on various boards as director, trustee and shareholder of commercial organisations enterprises and non-profit organisations. Charles is an alumnus of the United States international visitors leadership program (IVLP) for young global business leaders, Charles holds a BSc in Management Information System from Covenant University and an MSc in Marketing and Communications