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Melanie Okuneye-Williams
Melanie Okuneye-Williams is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Nerdio, the Chicago-based Azure automation company that raised a $500M Series C from General Atlantic in 2025 after crossing $100M in ARR. Before Nerdio she founded Akoma Health, a teletherapy platform serving Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, grew it to profitability and exited. Earlier she spent nearly five years at Goldman Sachs in private wealth and markets coverage in London and New York, was a general partner at Baron Davis Ventures and worked with WME's corporate arm. Stanford GSB MBA, PPE from the University of York.
Yoyo Chang
Yoyo Chang is the Taiwan-born British founder and CEO of Kody, a payments and physical-commerce platform he started as a high-school cafeteria project to kill lunch queues. A self-taught teenage stock trader who ploughed his own trading profits into the company, he raised the business through a $20M Series A in 2024 and pushed its annualised processing volume toward $1 billion, all before turning 25.