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Viola Llewellyn is the Chief Operating Officer of Ovamba Solutions, Inc. Ovamba is a “peer-2-peer” technology platform that creates business loans andinvestments for the Sub-Saharan SME sector from the African Diaspora and global institutional investors. Ms. Llewellyn oversees strategy, daily operations, marketing and business development for Ovamba. She and her team also work closely with investors, diasporan leadership and African Civil Society Groups. Her previous consulting roles have been in the health care, technology, media, education, security and communications fields. 

Consulting clients have benefited from her disciplined fund “back-office” management, communications and portfolio management. She was instrumental in building a $50MM fund for a Washington DC based insurance investment firm where she led investor communications, industry association PACs, marketing and asset management divisions. She has worked on large public sector projects for companies such as Unisys Corporation, IBM, KPMG Consulting, BearingPoint and Rothschild. Ms. Llewellyn brings valuable access via her business and political connections in industries such as energy, agro-business, construction, the legislature, education and banking. 

Ms. Llewellyn is an award-winning entrepreneur and has been honoured by MEA Magazine and Global Woman Magazine for her achievements in business and her contribution to women in global business. She has been a speaker and guest lecturer at Howard University, Alabama State University and George Washington University. The Cameroon Professional Society has invited her every year for the past 3 years as a key speaker. She is also active as a presenter with the African Caribbean Business Council of Philadelphia. President Obama’s White House initiative on HBCUs has recognized her as a contributor to the development of emerging markets, Diaspora business development and cross African/African American student collaboration. Of recent, Ms. Llewellyn headed a trade delegation of 15 US business owners from the State of Pennsylvania to Cameroon and Gabon.