Mentoring is essentially about helping people to develop more effectively. It is a relationship designed to build confidence and support the mentee, so they are able to take control of their own development and work. Mentoring is about helping a mentee develop social capital to complement their development of technical an intellectual capital. It involves a personal interaction with the mentee. The Mindscope Mentoring is a mentoring initiative with committed individuals that have benefitted from mentorship guidance with experience mentoring individuals in various career and academic endeavours.
Read MoreThe programme will provide the mentees with access to people in the industry who have experienced in the area the mentees are interested in as well as opportunity to network and have their questions answered.
Head of Programmes
Idris Ayinde is a Chartered Accountant and CFA Charterholder with over 8 years’ experience with all the Big 4 firms (The largest four accounting firms globally). He currently work as a Manager with EY UK - London Office.
He had a First Class in Accounting from the University of Lagos, became a Chartered Accountant in 2014 and a CFA Charterholder in 2019. He was the ICAN Best qualifying candidate for May 2014 and the year 2014.
Idris attributes his academic and professional success to his ability to gain adequate guidance from his various mentors at critical decision period in the course of his career. He currently mentor students and working professionals mainly in the Finance and Accounting Field.
Pre-University Cohort Manager
Anifah is a Senior Software Engineer at an Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up for disaster recovery - Tractable. She works with technologies like Typescript, Python, React and Graphql as part of her role.
Prior to Tractable, she worked as a Software Engineer at the Bank of America. She has always loved Maths and Sciences which led her to study Systems Engineering at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Outside of work, Anifah helps people get started on their journeys on learning how to code with organizations like Code First Girls in the UK and DevCareer in Nigeria.
University Cohort Manager
Abdul-Hammid is a Senior Software Engineer at an EdTech startup in London - Noon Academy. Noon is a social learning platform that makes learning a fun, collaborative and innovative experience. It’s been downloaded by over 10 million students across 8 countries.
Before joining Noon, he was leading the engineering team at Sameday Custom Inc., a US based startup that builds technology solutions for the apparel industry.
He holds a bachelor degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he finished with a first class and later had his masters in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.