World UNIBEN Alumni 'Tom Ilube' Named Britain’s Most Powerful Black Person

A

abujagirl

Guest
Tom Ilube, a tech entrepreneur and educator whodid his first degree, in physics, at the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria, has been named Britain’s most powerful black person.

Tom Ilube.JPG

Buzzfeed reports that a panel chaired by Dame Linda Dobbs, the first black woman in Britain to be appointed a judge, have decided that Ilube, an unassuming, softly spoken man who looks a bit like your maths teacher is the most influential of them all.

Reacting to the honour, Ilube said, “I think what I said was, ‘Are you running low on black people?’” he says with a huge laugh. “It’s a huge honour, if not a bit of a surprise.”

Ilube is a tech entrepreneur and educator, who has shared a stage with Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and successfully persuaded Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web, to become an adviser to one of his companies.
 
Back
Top