Abadesi Osunsade
Abadesi is the founder of Hustle Crew, a career advancement community for the underrepresented in tech and author of careers advice book "Dream Big. Hustle Hard. A Millennial Woman's Guide to Success in Tech".
She campaigns tirelessly for a more inclusive tech sector to ensure the injustices of the present aren't cemented into the future through the products tech creates.
Abadesi was a team leader in growth-oriented roles at Amazon, Hoteltonight and Groupon, where she joined as one of the first partner managers and helped scale the department 5X in her first 8 months. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 2009 with a BSc. (Honours) in Economics and Government, and wrote for the Financial Times before joining London’s tech scene. She was born in Washington DC to Nigeria and Filipina parents and grew up in East Africa before moving to the UK to complete secondary school.
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Home Base:
London
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Focus:
Tech + Entrepreneurship + Mentorship + Equality + Writing
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Life Motto:
Know your worth and never settle
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Inspiration:
Oprah Winfrey - the only black female billionaire