Viv Ahmun, co-founder and President of the Aspire Education Group is a Partner at Open Africa and Coltan Security, companies based in Uganda. He has founded and been the Co-Director of many businesses, civil society organisations and networks in recruitment, enterprise development, primary healthcare, tech-based coms, and impact investment. Viv is a qualified and seasoned social policy veteran, corporate governance and leadership advisor. He is also a former Home Office and Mayoral strategic advisor to the first two London Mayors, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. He is a Governor of the East London Foundation Trust, which covers East London, Luton and Bedfordshire. In 2022, he was honoured by the African Achievers Awards, held at Kensington Palace, for services to enterprise (Africa-based start-ups and the popularisation of technology-based business solutions in East Africa). In service to his community during the Covid-19 lockdown, he and his colleagues established the Baobab Foundation which is a multimillion-pound philanthropy brand which gives £3 million annually to Black micro-organisations in the UK. During lockdown he also co-created and launched Future Boss with Courtney Brown, which invested £100,000 in UK start-ups in its first year and is actively facilitating access to social and technical/human capital and partnerships and international trade opportunities across Africa, Europe and North America for UK Black African Caribbeans. Most recently, Viv used his experience to set out the wire frame for the F100 BEO £1 million founder programme. He currently spends an increasing amount of his time on brokering inward investment from North America and Europe into Africa, whilst working with others to build Africa’s infrastructure from the inside out……