Join us this Friday as we take you through the career journeys of three experts who will show you practical insights into building your career in this exciting field of data analysis, business intelligence and financial modelling. These sessions are brought to you by UrBizEdge, do checkout our courses (we have online classes and physical classes)

 Session 1: Financial Modeling Office Hour 5 (https://www.meetup.com/Financial-Modeling-Valuation-Learning-Community/events/ncwlsrybcjbzb/)


Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Abraham Durosawo
2. Industry Deep Dive
3. Other Questions & Answers

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/fin-mod-live

 Abraham Durosawo is a veteran investment advisory professional. He possesses years of financial advisory and capital raising experience across power, oil & gas, infrastructure, insurance, manufacturing, technology, agriculture, financial services and real estate projects. He was a member of the team that developed the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government.

 He is a Certified Management Consultant and Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants. Enrolled in a dual Executive MBA at the Business School Netherlands and Quantic School of Business and Technology. He is a candidate in the CFA Program. He is a Director at Unicorn Capital, Consultant to the Investment Banking Institute New York, Business Mentor with the Bid Network Foundation, Netherlands, and a Mentor with the Google Launchpad Start. He is also the convener of the Finance Professionals Network, a community of future global leaders in finance. He is a specialist in equity and debt investment instruments with a core focus on private equity and venture capital investments. 

 Abraham is an award-winning YALI Fellow, The Young African Leaders Initiative, where he won the 2018 star of Entrepreneurship.
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/careers-in-finance/ 
Twitter: @FinProNetwork
Session 2: Microsoft Excel and Data Analysis Office Hour 5 (https://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-Excel-and-Data-Analysis-Learning-Community/events/hmzlsrybcjbzb/)


Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Kehinde Omisile
2. Special Demo
3. Other Questions

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/excel-live

 Kehinde Omilise has a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Master's Degree in Biostatistics. he developed flair for Excel as a diploma student of Agricultural Engineering sometime in 2003. First learnt to use Excel for analyzing Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). He uses Excel regularly for research, business solutions, visualization and analytics in the nonprofit sector.

 You can connect with him via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omisilekehindeolugbenga/
and
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OmisileKehindeOlugbenga 
Session 3: Power BI Office Hour 5 (https://www.meetup.com/Power-BI-Learning-Community/events/cmzlsrybcjbzb/)


Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Ahmed Oyelowo, MVP
2. Live Demo
3. Other Questions & Answers

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/power-bi-live

 Ahmed is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (BI Reporting), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a Certified Advanced Financial Modeler (AFM) from the Financial Modeling Institute, Ontario, Canada.

 He has developed cutting edge solutions for companies and trained over 3,000 people on Business Intelligence and Financial Modeling.

 He is also a contributor to the Power BI Community blog where he writes technical "how-to" articles. This combines with other articles he publishes on his blog and videos he posts on his YouTube channel.

 His business website is https://foresightbi.com.ng/ and you can get more of his amazing tutorials on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChdiVx41iPzoucPBiI_jy_A
image: forumchristian.org

 Join us today at 2:00pm (WAT), 4:00pm (WAT) and 6:00pm (WAT) as I bring you exciting interviews and demo sessions from awesome data analysis experts who are making waves in their space.

 Session 1
The first is my session with the special Bernard Obeng Boateng whose impact stretch from Ghana to Nigeria, claim your participation slot at https://www.meetup.com/Financial-Modeling-Valuation-Learning-Community/events/ncwlsrybcjbqb/

 Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Bernard Obeng Boateng (BEST)
2. AFM (Advanced Financial Modeler) Certification
3. Other Questions & Answers

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/fin-mod-live

 Bernard Obeng Boateng is a Financial Modeler and Data Analyst with work experience in Banking, Insurance and Business Development. Bernard is skilled in Business Analytics, Dashboards and building financial models for budgeting, business valuation, scenario planning and investments. He also provides consultancy services for SMEs (startups and existing) in financial management, business planning and research.

 He is certified in Business Analytics, New Venture Financing and Risk Modeling and provides training in Financial Modeling, Analytics and Microsoft Excel for individuals and organizations.

 Bernard is co-founder of Business Evolution Systems and Training Ltd (www.best-gh.com) an approved training provider in Ghana for the Financial Modeling Institute, Canada.

 You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardobengboateng/ and you should subscribe to his YouTube channel to get super useful Excel tips, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wBo_091Lu_rvLSqDIoo6A


 Session 2
Then, there is the session with MVP David Abiola at 4:00pm and you can claim your participantion slot at https://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-Excel-and-Data-Analysis-Learning-Community/events/hmzlsrybcjbqb/

Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - David Abiola, MVP (Excel Jet Consult)
2. Excel Tricks
3. Other Questions & Answers

See you in the online live class session!


Abiola David is the founder of Excel Jet Consult. He has trained professionals from many organizations in Nigeria including Senior Staffs at Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Rose of Sharon Foundation, Access Bank to mention few.

His love for Excel and desire to upscale the Excel knowledge of Nigerians, made him to partner with NGOs to deliver free Excel and Power BI training for students at different Federal Universities in Nigeria pro bono. An avid blogger, he regularly share his wide technical expertise on his website which attract thousands of visitors from around the world.

Abiola David has published two books on Excel: Microsoft Excel for Professionals and Microsoft Excel Advanced Masterclass for Professionals.

He is an active contributor in the Microsoft Forum and regularly share technical videos on Youtube, https://youtube.com/user/Born2begrait


 Session 3
And at 6:00pm we get to hear from the indefatigable MVP Ayodeji Folarin you can claim your participantion slot at https://www.meetup.com/Power-BI-Learning-Community/events/cmzlsrybcjbqb/

Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Ayodeji Folarin, MVP
2. Live Demo
3. Other Questions & Answers

See you on the online live class session!


Ayodeji is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, BI Developer, Data Platform Evangelist, Data warehouse and Dashboard/Business Reporting Expert

With over 23 years in the computing arena, Ayodeji has focused on data platform solutions around Microsoft Azure and Office 365. He has helped many companies to migrate their systems to the cloud and get insight from their data source for the past 10 years.

Ayodeji has passion for teaching and community engagement. He is a well-known speaker at many local and international conferences like MCT Summits, Power BI User Groups, PASS Local Groups, Microsoft Student Partners Events and other meetups. He loves to be on stage both at large events and at smaller user groups meetings, exchanging ideas with other SQL and BI fans. He loves traveling for work and to engage with local user groups, so always watch out for his next event around you.

Ayodeji has been certified as a Microsoft Trainer for over 5 years. He has been involved in presenting, community speaking and helping other professionals in the better usage and taking advantage of Microsoft's data solutions from flat files to RDBMS for example Excel, Access, SQL server, Power BI, MSBI, Azure SQL and many more.

Starting as a developer back in 1994, programming COBOL, BASIC and FORTRAN, Ayodeji has helped companies in multiple countries in many business areas to design and deploy their computing solutions. His love for spreadsheet and application development made him develop a spreadsheet application with VB4 to compete with Lotus 123 then.

Achieving his first Microsoft certification in 2010 as SQL Server 2008 Database Administrator and DB Developer, that same year he got his certification on Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 web and Desktop developer track. He now decides to focus his career around Microsoft's data platform. He is certified in recent release of SQL and Microsoft Power BI (Excel and Power BI Desktop).

You can connect with him on Linkedin via https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodeji-folarin/ and be wowed by his one of a kind website, https://dejifolarin.com


Today we are running three special expert interview sessions. If you've ever felt lonely and almost frustrated in your data analysis mastery/competency journey then these sessions are the very medication you need to regain your motivation and get timely career help.


Session 1: https://www.meetup.com/Financial-Modeling-Valuation-Learning-Community/events/ncwlsrybcjbhb/

 Friday, 5 June 2020 @ 2:00pm GMT+1

 Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Charles Otoghile (High5)
2. Financial Analysis vs Financial Modeling
3. Questions & Answers

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/fin-mod-live



 Session 2: https://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-Excel-and-Data-Analysis-Learning-Community/events/hmzlsrybcjbhb/

 Friday, 5 June 2020 @ 4:00pm GMT+1

 Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Victor Momoh (ExcelMoments)
2. Pivot Table Tricks
3. Other Questions

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/excel-live

Session 3: https://www.meetup.com/Power-BI-Learning-Community/events/cmzlsrybcjbhb/

 Friday, 5 June 2020 @ 6:00pm GMT+1

 Agenda:
1. Expert Journey Interview - Evans Otalor
2. Power BI Admin Portal
3. Other Questions

 See you in the online live class session!

 Joining link is https://vip.urbizedge.com/power-bi-live

 About our special guest:
Evans Otalor is currently a Data Science Consultant with Sterling Bank, before that he was Head of Data Analytics at IHS Towers, Nigeria. He is also a part-time lecturer at two foreign universities.

 He is an experienced analytics professional with demonstrated track record successfully structuring and managing analytic projects across Banks, TELCOs, and FMCGs.

 Evans holds a BSc in Industrial Mathematics from Ambrose Alli University and an MSc in Actuarial Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow.

 Highly skilled in the application of Mathematical and Statistical Methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize data for quantitative modelling projects that include both Data Analysis and Predictive Modelling to aid insight extraction, Risk Disclosure, Reporting, Measuring, Monitoring, and Predicting. Evans have over 10 years’ experience training in the Data Science space with over 13 years industry experience

 Expert user of Python, R, Microsoft Applications (Including MS Excel, Power BI), SPSS Modeler, Alteryx, Knime, Tableau, and various Data Analytics/Visualization tools.

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