|6.7.17| Facebook Live Event x Chike Ukaegbu
On Wednesday, June 7th at 7:30pm-8PM Chike Ukaegbu will be discussing “Turning Ideas Into Profitable Solutions.”
About Chike:
Chike Ukaegbu is the founder of Startup52, NYC’s premier and award winning diversity-focused accelerator with a mission to increase the representation of founders from untapped communities in tech and startup entrepreneurship. He is an Educator, Entrepreneur, Investor, Humanitarian and Biomedical Engineer who is passionate about redefining representation through diversity and inclusion in tech and entrepreneurial spaces. He is also the executive producer and host of ‘Tech:inCOLORS’, a new facebook live show that explores the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, culture and inclusive diversity.
Chike is an ardent believer in the social and economic benefits of inclusive diversity and continues to advocate for its support and adoption. He is currently raising a diversity focused Venture Capital fund and was invited to The White House to do a briefing on initiatives that support diversity, STEM education and entrepreneurship for youths and underserved communities.
Chike also co-founded Re:LIFE Inc, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to empower youth through entrepreneurship, tech and education and have served over 400 youths since its inception.
He is an ex-fellow of the prestigious Colin Powell Leadership Fellowship on leadership and public policy, was named a 2014 NYC Rising Star by Pave for his contributions to youth development and recently, a 2015 Ashoka Emerging Innovator Finalist. He gave a 2014 TEDx talk on entrepreneurship in Hawaii and continues to advocate for economic empowerment of untapped communities through various outlets, among other achievements.
As a leading voice on diversity and inclusion in tech, Chike has spoken and continues to speak at several tech and venture capital conferences across the country and internationally. His endeavors have also been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Ebony, BizJournal, Opportunity Lives, Entrepreneur, UrbanGeekz, etc and was interviewed by Randi Zuckerberg on her SiriusXM show, Dot Complicated!
Chike studied Venture Capital & Investments at Stanford, MBA courses at UPenn, Executive Leadership and Management at Cornell, and Biomedical Engineering at The City College of New York, where he taught Math for seven years and served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for two.
He currently resides in Harlem with Beau, his standard poodle, and Selah, Nahla and Shiloh, his three labradoodles.
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