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Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.

In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, Samir Co-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 200,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 170,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.

In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and consulted for various nonprofits and startups. Samir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Startup Grind, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.

Wemimo Abbey is the Founder of Clean Water for Everyone (CWFE), a social enterprise using market-based solutions to tackle the water and sanitation crisis. CWFE has provided access to clean water to over 40,000 people in Ghana, Nepal, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.

He gained valuable experience working with Accenture, the Clinton Global Initiative and Goldman Sachs. Recently, Abbey consulted on a 32 billion euros project for the European Commission Directorate General for Development and Cooperation (EuropeAid) developing tools and cases to support the European Union assistance for decentralization, local governance and local development.

He is a recipient of the 2014 Face2Face Africa Young African Committed to Excellence award, The United States Presidential Achievement award and a member of the 2016 Queens Young Leaders program.

Abbey graduated with distinction (Magna Cum Laude) and holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Minnesota Crookston. He earned a Masters of Public Administration and Development Finance from New York University’s Robert F. Wager School of Public Service. Abbey is currently enrolled at The University of Cambridge sponsored by the Queen of England.