Adeshina Adewumi has been recognized as a financial inclusion global change maker by the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), Meaningful Business Ernst and Young Entrepreneur and International Trade Council in 2018, 2021 and 2023 respectively. He has shown tenacity and a strong passion for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through his work within the financial service space as the CEO/Founder of Trade Lenda; a digital bank for SMEs driving financial inclusion. As a seasoned entrepreneur, he served as a venture partner that brokered a $1millioin fund investment between Africans in the United States and Startup founders in Africa through the Aptive Capital venture. This fund invested in 6 startups across West and East Africa between 2020 and 2021 and have tracked over 500 new jobs from their portfolio investments. For Adeshina, nation building is a collective effort and leadership without a successor is failure. He therefore volunteers on Tony Elumelu and Knowledge Exchange Centre as a mentor, coach, and innovation facilitator respectively where he shares his knowledge and experience with fresh graduates and other emerging young entrepreneurs with the goal of empowering them towards using their skills and venture in contributing towards nation building and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These two Non for profits have seen over 100,000 youths trained and empowered and on track to train the next 1 million youths. He holds an MBA from the University of Exeter UK, Bsc. Accounting from Bowen University and several professional affiliations globally.