Nsikan Essien (Founder and CEO of Netima Republic) the curator, The Vault Accelerator Programme , a Seasoned Banker with years of past of service at Zenith Bank and UBA. She is a trained Entrepreneurial Manager, certified by Enterprise Development Center/Lagos Business School, an Alumna of the several Entrepreneurship Programs including YouWin and Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship programme. SheLeadsAfrica(SLA) Accelerator, Cheri Blair Foundation Programme, and World Bank Funded ‘WomenX.’ Nsikan Essien seeks to bring that expertise to bear in the success of any challenging project she handles.

So far, we have achieved several milestones using the SMEGROWTH (SUSTAINABLE MENTORING FOR ENTERPRISE GROWTH) platform and these include 5-year track record of success,11 SME batches graduated, 90+ alumnae, rated “Exceeds Expectations” by 90% of our alumnae in a post program anonymous survey, Training and mentoring youths for the YouWin programme, Training and mentoring youths and businesses of the Tony Elumelu Foundation resulting in 12 winners of the 2017 TEF competition round thus empowering our entrepreneurs with the sum of $10,000 each giving a total sum of $120,000 (N43,200,000 @N360 to $1), Training of over 350 youths and entrepreneurs on the ongoing 2018 Tony Elumelu Foundation programme, Faculty training of over 1000 students at the University of Uyo. The Entrepreneurship General Studies course – (GST) has run for 3 consecutive years, Running a oneyear Fashion Designing program yearly since 2012 till date for youths and women.