Building a Global Career with Toyin Kolawole

Seasoned entrepreneur, consumer packaged goods international trade expert and now Food Company Founder & CEO, Toyin Kolawole (Kellogg '06) is always on the move. She has managed to successfully reinvent herself in a number of roles both here in the US and on the African Continent. In 2015, she founded Iya Foods LLC, an authentic African inspired CPG company in Illinois . Prior to that, she founded True Branches, an e-commerce B2B sourcing operation focused on sub-Saharan Africa and Market Woman & Company, a growth strategy-consulting firm with a strong specialization in export and international expansion.

Clearly, she has a proven track record of effective multi-continent organizational leadership, strategy & business development. Join us as we engage Toyin in a candid conversation on building a global career and navigating the business climate in Africa and the US simultaneously.

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