Meet our iamtheCODE Team

Lady Mariéme Jamme
Founder
Lady Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese-born, French- British businesswoman, with over 20 years of experience. A pioneer in System Change and Technology. She’s best renowned for her motivational & inspirational speeches about girl’s education through STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics and design) and empowerment of youth living in marginalised communities.
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Surrey-based, Mariéme learned how to code seven programming languages from her local library. She received outstanding global accolades for being one of the pioneers in the technology ecosystem in Africa and for her passion in empowering marginalised girls to have access to education and Digital skills. She’s an Award-Winning technologist, in Sept 2017, she won the Innovation Award at the Global Goals Award 2017 by UNICEF & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goalkeeper for her work in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She is a Board of Director of the World Wide Web Foundation (Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee). Mariéme’s latest venture includes the launch of iamtheCODE.org, the first African-led global movement to mobilise government, the private sector, and philanthropic foundations to advance STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Design) Education. Her goal is to empower 1 million young women & girls globally to become coders by 2030 and to align with the UN 2030 Agenda. Lady Mariéme recently got nominated by Apolitical as their World’s 100 most influential people in Digital Government.
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Christopher Schlaeffer
Patron
Christopher is a European technology executive and serial founder. He served as Chief Digital Officer of VEON (NASDAQ: VEON) as well as Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Corporate Development Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Deutsche Telekom (Xetra: DTE). His new company is NYOUM.
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Together with Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Chou and Cole Brodman Christopher unveiled the world’s first mobile phone based on Android, T-Mobile G1. In 2007, he and Tim Cook closed Apple ́s first partnership on iPhone outside the US. Christopher started his career with Accenture.
Christopher has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader and ranked one of the Top50 Innovators To Watch. He takes an avid interest in promoting an open information society, science, arts and equality and graduated from the Vienna University of Economics.


Basetsana Kumalo
Patron
As a South African beauty queen. At the tender age of 16 winning Miss Black South Africa and Miss Soweto. When she turned 20 she entered and won Miss South Africa 1994 and in the same year went on and became the 1st runner up at Miss World. A fierce competitor, winning these pageant titles was only the beginning of Basetsana’s love story with the South African public.
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She spent her reign as Miss South Africa raising fund for various organizations and charities, but also using this time to network with as many influential local and international people as she good, showing that drive and resilience that she would later portrait in her entrepreneurial career.
Board of Directors

Akira Kirton
Vice President at BP pulse
Akira Kirton is an Advisory Board Member for iamtheCODE and Managing Director of the Europe & Asia team for BP Ventures. BP Ventures has invested over $500m in 40 companies across the core energy business, and new areas that include digital technology, bioenergy, low carbon power, and advanced mobility.
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Akira also sits on the boards of Alyssum Ltd (aka Fly Victor), Tricoya Technologies, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Solidia Technologies, and the OGCI Climate Investments (a $1bn fund).
Akira has a Masters in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Law & Management. He is a 2008 IChemE Innovation Award Winner, a 2012 Marshall Memorial Fellow and 2015 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. On a pro-bono basis Akira sits on the educational advisory board of the European Climate KIC. He is hugely passionate about education and youth programmes.
Board of Advisors

Ada Osakwe
Managing Partner, Agrolay Ventures

Basetsana Kumalo
South African Business Woman, Philanthropist, Author, Miss South Africa 1994

Kelly Buchanan
Senior Vice President, Mastercard

Courtney Holm
Vice President, Sustainability Solutions at Capgemini Invent

Fatima Ait Bendawad
DHL Global Humanitarian Logistics Competence Centre Head

Anthony Muiyuro
Digital, Cybersecurity & Privacy Strategist and Consultant President, ISACA Kenya Chapter

H.R.H. Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme
Senior Advisor on Private Sector Partnerships to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Observers

Kristin Hoff Smith
Strategic Communications Professional at Finsbury Glover Hering

Maria Carolina Martins
Senior Data and Impact Officer

Dave Allen
Leadership Coach

Patrick Taylor
Vice President, SI Alliances at DocuSign

Patrick Freeman
Manager of International Affairs at the Obama Foundation
Volunteers

Carolina Espindola
Programme Lead and Impact Officer

Miwaza Jemimah
Freelancer Videographer

Patricia de Carvalho Dias Bove
Impact Project Officer

Jeanne d'Arc Uwatowenimana

Taylor Chustz

Michele Hacke

Hernani Máximo Espíndola


Majur M. Arok

Malith N. Ayiek
Ambassadors

Paolo Ben Salmi
Author & Social Entrepreneur

Lorenna Vilas Boas
Ambassador Brazil

Mame Fatou Konare
Ambassador Senegal

Laura Ulloa Gonzalez
Entrepreneur, GoalKeeper 2017

Evie Hambridge
Digital leader

Paetyn Naidoo
Digital Leader

Christopher Bradford
Head of Scholarship, RGS Guildford

Joan Ambutu
Kenya Champion

Reenad Bint Saud AlEnazi
Founder, Reenadat

Soulaima Gourani
Rewarded Online Executive Coach, Business Mentor, Bestseller Author and Keynote speaker at @bigspeak

Helen Leech
Senior manager in Surrey Library Service

Cynthia Zanoni
Full Stack Developer and PM Latam from Technical Evangelism at Microsoft, leading innovation and open source initiatives for developers

Barbara Birungi
Ugandan Social Entrepreneur, Technologist, activist, mentor, teacher and investor

Rodrigo Spillere
Entrepreneur, Founder of Jetworks, Reponsible for Digital Innovation at Zôdio Brasil

Mansoor Akbar
iamtheCODE Afganistan

Dina Gu
Researcher and Activist, China

Drue Kataoka
Technology Artist, California

Akira Hirata
Ambassador & Mentor iamtheCODE Japan

Evelyn Namara
Founder, Vouch Digital Ltd

Mosunmola Umoru
Entrepreneur, Nigeria

Saran Kaba Jones
Founder and CEO of FACE Africa

Harinjaka Ratozamanana
iamtheCODE, Madagascar

UN Women
www.unwomen.org

Farai Gundan
Manson Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Dave Duarte
Founder of Treeshake, South Africa

Paula Bellizia
Vice President Marketing Latin America at Google

Sylvia Coutinho
Country Head of UBS Group,Brazil

Luciano Ramalho
Consultant at ThoughtWorks, co-founder of Garoa Hacker Club and author of Fluent Python, Brazil

Abdulsalam Haykal
CEO of the Haykal Group, Syria

Laura Paterson
Principal at ThoughtWorks

Belinda Parmar
CEO of The Empathy Business

Lisa Witter
CEO Apolitical

Nimco Ali
Co-founder and director of Daughters of Eve
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