Dr. Aloy Chife

Founder, President and CEO
Dr. Chife is a proven executive with a demonstrated track record of ICT management. His primary specialties include the design, implementation, integration, quality assurance and management of enterprise solutions. In these capacities, he has served both as Director for Apple Computers in Silicon Valley, California, USA, and as IT Director for Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA.

 

He is the author of The Political Economy of Post-Cold War Africa and has been recognized as a Nigerian “Millennium Model,” a media-sponsored program that recognizes great individual achievement worthy of emulation by Nigerians.

 

Dr. Chife holds a Ph.D. (Economics) degree from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar.

Anthony Nwachukwu

Chief Operating Officer / Deputy Managing Director
Mr. Nwachukwu has 15 years of experience in international business transactions/processes and trade between North America and Africa. He has developed a reputation as an effective manager of business enterprises and trade relationships, and for six years prior to joining SW Global served as a business development and management consultant for the American Soft Drinks Association, the Government of Uganda, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and other U.S. and African clients. Mr. Nwachukwu is also the founder of Atlantic Gums Corporation, the largest U.S. based direct importer and processor of gum arabic.

Mr. Nwachukwu holds a Masters of Law Degree (International Corporate and Commercial Law) from Kings College London, and a Masters of Business Administration Degree.

Prachi Sharma

Head of Technology
Ms. Sharma, brings 18 years of technology development, management and executive leadership in telecom and networking experience to SW Global.

The portfolio she has handled in top-notch companies across the globe has endowed her with expertise in cutting-edge technologies. In her previous assignment as Managing Director, India Operations, Ms. Sharma built Lumenare India operations, ground-up. She planned and implemented strategies for HR, Operations, F&A and also for complete technical delivery.

 

Prior to joining QuikCycle (Lumenare), Ms. Sharma led the offshore development center for Accelerated Networks, as a developer of multi-service broadband access products. Previously she was a Senior Manager for River Run Software Group, where she headed a business unit and worked on a number of telecom application developments. Ms. Sharma has also served in management and engineering roles at Hughes Software Systems and at the Indian Defense Ministry's Defense Research Development Organization.

Ms. Sharma holds a Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science from Pune University in India, an Executive MBA from Lansbridge University in Canada and a Masters of Management from the American Graduate School of Management, Englewood, Colorado.

Riva Levinson

Permanent Consultant, U.S. Government Relations
Ms. Levinson has nearly 20 years of experience as a Washington DC lobbyist and public relations professional. For more than a decade Ms. Levinson was Managing Director at BKSH & Associates, where she managed the company’s international portfolio. In 2006, she left the company to open her own consultancy and currently serves as the Managing Director of KRL International, LLC.

Ms. Levinson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Affairs from Tufts University and a Master’s degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. She has also studied at the School of Economics of the University of Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain, and is fluent in Spanish.