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With an extensive multidisciplinary technology and business leadership background, Ngozi Bell an entrepreneur and investment partner at Trans-Sahara Investment Corporation, was Regional Advocate appointee in President Obama’s administration for the US - Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, representing the mid-Atlantic states. Prior to her appointment, Ngozi Bell was Vice President of Birchmere Ventures Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania an early stage Venture Capital firm focused on Clean Technology, Medical and Technology with over $160M under management. Prior to that, she was a director at LSI Corp and held senior management and technical roles in Agere Systems, Lucent Technologies, AT&T Microelectronics and R.W. Beck. Ngozi Bell holds a degree in Physics and a masters in Electrical Engineering and has more than 23 years of experience ranging from core technology development and support, marketing, corporate and business development and mergers and acquisitions roles. Bell who is also an adjunct professor of Physics, Business Law and Management is a speaker and has featured on Voice of America as an expert on Africa-US matters and a TEDxLehigh-River speaker. Bell, a lifelong learner and teacher, serves as the CEO of a Maryland Based technology firm 3.0Nexus.  Ngozi Bell is also founder of Diaspora Bell and Miranet Entrepreneurship University, platforms that inform and teach globally