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Oluwasoga Oni
Oluwasoga Oni is the CEO and co-founder of MDaaS Global, the Nigerian healthtech company behind BeaconHealth Diagnostics, one of the country's fastest-growing diagnostic clinic networks. A software engineer turned MIT systems-engineering graduate, Oni grew up watching his father run a hospital in small-town Ondo State without the equipment he needed. He turned that memory into a company that started by importing refurbished medical machines and pivoted into building its own diagnostic centers, performing tens of thousands of tests and expanding across Lagos and underserved Nigerian cities. In 2026 the MIT Africa Business Club named him the recipient of its inaugural Alumni Impact Award.
Satoshi Sugie
Satoshi Sugie is the Co-founder and CEO of WHILL, a San Mateo-based personal mobility company that has reimagined the electric wheelchair as a design-forward consumer product. Drawing on his automotive design background at Nissan, Sugie co-founded WHILL in 2012 with a mission to redefine how people perceive and use mobility devices. Under his leadership, WHILL has grown to 350 employees, expanded to 30+ countries, raised over $153 million in funding, and deployed nearly one million autonomous rides at airports worldwide including Tokyo's Haneda, Rome Fiumicino, and Narita. Named to Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 in 2017 and recognized by TIME Magazine's 50 Best Inventions, Sugie's approach treats mobility not as a medical necessity but as an aspirational lifestyle product.