Mr. Samuel Mendy is a highly respected Finance professional with over 28 years track record of driving strategic change and strong financial governance. 

He obtained his Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Business IT from the University of Portsmouth, MA in Strategic Leadership from the University of Chester and MBA from Oxford Brookes University. He is a Fellow of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Association of Accounting Technicians and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute.

He is the Managing Partner at YBSM Partners, a firm of Chartered Certified Accountants based in Stratford, London where he leads a team of extremely brilliant Accountants and Finance Professionals deliver best in class value to Clients in the UK and beyond.

In this episode, we talk about his journey from the backsides of The Gambia to the forefront of the Accounting, Finance and FinTech space in the UK and all the work he is doing to support other Africans and the contributions he is making to developing and bringing Africa back to winning ways. 

Mr. Mendy is living proof that one's origin doesn't determine one's destination unless we allow it to. #BeInspired

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YBSM Partners Company website : www.ybsmpartners.com

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In this episode, we explore the unique experiences of a Nigerian-American born in the U.S. and raised in Nigeria, who has lived his entire adult life in the United States and has managed to make the best of both worlds not just for himself but for those within his circle of influence.

Pete Agidigbi is a former US Army Aviation Combat veteran, where he served in numerous tours of duty, including Kosovo Force (KFOR), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and other NATO-led missions. Upon leaving active duty, he transitioned into several private and public sector roles. He is currently a Financial and Cybersecurity examiner for a US Federal regulatory agency. He is also an entrepreneur in the Arts and Event Curation space (CEO Jollof and Wine) and an active Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Acquisitions Deal Syndicator (Pinnacle Enterprise Holdings, inc.).

Sit back, relax and enjoy this very enriching conversation.

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Jollof & Wine website - www.jollofandwine.com

Welcome back to Resonant Voices, we are delighted to be on your playlist every week.

Our guest this week is a man who has faced and overcome many challenges common to many of us who grew up on the African continent - lack, deprivation, limited access to some very basic necessities, the various forms of abuse that hurting people inflict on other hurting people amongst many other things. We discuss these issues and some more current ones like his experience in an interracial marriage and raising Kids who are of Nigerian and Latvian descent, growing up in the United Kingdom. It is truly refreshing to hear Jude speak; he is the man behind the JudeSpeakz TV brand, a platform he uses very brilliantly to share his unique thoughts on various social issues. 

Jude is a well-respected Social worker, currently doing remarkable work as a specialist palliative care social worker within Greenwich & Bexley, in London. He is a graduate of the London Southbank University where he bagged a first class honours degree in Social work and also holds an MSc in International security and global governance which he obtained from Birkbeck, University of London.

We would really love to read your feedback in the comments section after you listen to this very relatable and engaging conversation with Jude Ukato, the Strategic safeguarding lead, Researcher, Poet, Author, Content creator, Influencer, Talk show host, Producer, husband, Father, and Fashionista.