February 21, 2018
Alfred Akibo-Betts-Freetown Business School

ALFRED AKIBO-BETTS is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants of the United Kingdom and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sierra Leone.  He holds a Honours Degree in Accounting and Finance from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone and a Master’s Degree in Taxation from the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Alfred has considerable experience in the tax field as has worked at the National Revenue Authority for over fourteen (14) years, where he is now a Deputy Commissioner. Most notably, he was the focal person for the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in Sierra Leone in which time he gained skills in public relations and public speaking; negotiation and project management.

Although Alfred has worked most of his professional life in the public sector, he believes in Sierra Leonean entrepreneurship and this has led him to partner with other Sierra Leoneans to form businesses in the real estate, energy, infrastructure, information technology and education sectors. Alfred is one of the Founders of the Freetown Business School.

Alfred is happily married to Binta and they have two beautiful children, Gisele and Baby Alfred.

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February 21, 2018
Ajara Marie

With a Masters in Social work and a plethora of career experience in social
service delivery, academic and program development. Ajara relocated to
Africa after working in the United States. Ajara moved to Sierra Leone
with the passion to grow and rebuild Sierra Leone. Years later she is doing
just that.

As a rising business mogul and a marketing executive, Ajara Marie is young,
vibrant, enthusiastic and ready to take on the world. She is constantly
cultivating relationships with business professionals in various sectors
ranging from the public, private, governmental in Sierra Leone and in the
United States Diaspora. Her academic and career background has
strategically positioned her to gain a wealth of experience in Community &
Youth Development, Events Management & PR, Communications and Marketing,
Training and Capacity building, Clinical Services and Partnership
development in Sierra Leone and abroad. Ajara has a passion for working
with girls and women. In her area of work and business she offers her
skills to engage and introduce emerging business owners to markets in
Africa, whilst sharing her areas of expertise to young college audiences in
the United States through public speaking, strategic coaching and
development. She belongs to several organizations including the 50/50
Group, All Peoples Congress, Girls Empowerment Summit, Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority & Power Women 232.

She has executed corporate business events services for clients for the
past 7 years under Rhoyalty Concepts a strategic events and marketing
company. In 2013 she launched her community platform for bringing women
businesses together Women Mean Business, which has gathered over 350+ women
business owners to date and provided them with networking opportunities and
resources to date. She also serves as a volunteer project manager for GESSL
a social impact organization that supports the leadership development of
Sierra Leonean girls.

Ajara has appeared in various media outlets including, Guardian Nigeria,
Afroelle Magazine, Bella Naija, Women Change Africa and recently was a
co-star in the newly released film “I Am the Film” a film that looks at the
criticality of identity of returnees and diaspora American’s. She is a
family women and mother to a beautiful 3-year-old. She infuses Afrochic
minimalism into her style wear from work to home, and enjoys traveling and
exploring cultures from the African & Caribbean diaspora.

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