We celebrate Emmanuel Leslie Addae as our board member of the week. Emmanuel Leslie Addae is a highly experienced individual in Digital Marketing, Social Media Management, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing & Strategy, with demonstrated leadership skills and a proven track record working in the HR, Education, Fintech, Service and manufacturing industries. Also possessing useful analytical skills, backed by a comprehensive understanding of startups and strong problem-solving.  skills. He is a board member of social Enterprise Ghana. Who is the Co-Founder/CEO of Talents in Africa & Africa Skills Hub. He is one of Ghana’s young successful entrepreneurs and the former curator/founder of TEDxAccra and Africa Dialogues. In November 2017, he was named the Social Entrepreneur for the year in Ghana and in 2018, he was ranked among 50 Young CEO’s in Ghana. He started his first company in 2011 called Quality Role Ghana, a consulting firm, focusing on business restructuring, business financing and strategies right after his first degree. He sold the right to a Dubai Company called Quality Role Dubai for an undisclosed amount. In 2013, he co-founded a start-up called Promobile GH with Daniel Antwi with a little over $1000. Less than a year, they made over $250k in revenue and later sold their stake to a local software company for an undisclosed amount but according to an insider, they made little over $1.5M.

The breakthrough came in 2014, with the decision to curate TEDx event in his community Labone. To Leslie’s astonishment, the event quickly began to go viral. He was the recipient of the scholarship for 2014 TEDGlobal Conference. Leslie is passionate about entrepreneurship, development, capacity building, social change, digital innovations, ideas worth spreading and lasting creating solutions.

In 2016, Leslie and his long-standing partner Daniel founded a youth employment Accelerator Africa Skills Hub with the main focus of helping young people to start and grow their businesses in Ghana. The two later in 2018 also founded a skill Assessment platform called www.talentsinafrica.com

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