Ruby Igwe

Ruby Igwe is one of Africa’s youngest female tech leaders. Following an illustrious decade of professional work, Ruby now serves as the pioneer Country Manager at Sand Technologies (ALX Africa), a global technology brand where she leads a 50-member team in Nigeria on the mission to shape and empower the next generation of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with access to in-demand tech skills, lifelong opportunities and networks that would transform their lives and livelihoods.

To achieve this, Ruby employs a strategic approach to driving societal change through community-wide tech literacy and leadership training. Through ALX Nigeria, she has impacted over 145,000 unskilled youths in Nigeria with tech skills training and rewarding jobs, of which over forty per cent is female; and bagged multiple awards in the process including the prestigious AOT Social Innovation Award and Gage EdTech Award.

A creative powerhouse, Ruby is an award-winning film writer and producer. Her short film, Samaria won several international awards, including the ‘My 1st Short Film’ award at the Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden. More so, she is a versatile author of two published books on Amazon.

Ruby is a teacher at heart. She has taught Law at the Centre for Law and Business and mentors thousands of youths in communities like ALX, Co-Create, Women in Tech, among others. She holds a degree in Law from the University of Kent and a certificate in Leadership from Beni-American University.