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Abimbola Abass Adebakin

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Abimbola Abass Adebakin
OccupationBusinessman

Abimbola Adebakin (born Abimbola Abass) is a Nigerian business executive and pharmacist.[1] She is the founder and CEO of Advantage Health Africa.[2][3] Abimbola was previously the Chief Operations Officer for The Tony Elumelu Foundation.[4]

Career

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In 2021, she was announced as a winner of the Bayer Foundation Women Empowerment Award[5][6] and Google's Black Founders Fund.[7] She was YNaija's Person of Year in 2021.[8]

She was also in the top 20 shortlist for the Jack Ma’s Africa’s Business Heroes toplist of 2022.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "My Life in Tech: Abimbola Adebakin on activating the potency of Nigeria's pharmaceutical industry through technology". Tech Cabal. 24 June 2020.
  2. ^ CNN Marketplace Africa | Advantage Health Africa Takes On New Ways Of Doing Business In Nigeria, retrieved 2022-09-29
  3. ^ "How Social entrepreneurs in Africa are building inclusive health solutions". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  4. ^ "Elumelu Challenges Entrepreneurs On Mentorship – THISDAYLIVE". www.thisdaylive.com. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  5. ^ "Delivering medicines at the doorstep of urban and rural Nigerians". Bayer Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  6. ^ Women Empowerment Award Ceremony 2021, retrieved 2022-09-29
  7. ^ Endurance, Okafor (2021-10-11). "myMedicines makes list of 26 Nigerian startups to win Google's $3m Black Founders Fund". Businessday NG. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  8. ^ "YNaija". YNaija. 2021-12-31. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  9. ^ "Adebakin's, Aderinoye's road to global entrepreneurial stage The Nation Newspaper". 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2022-09-29.