Wednesday, November 03, 2010

LoftyInc's Houston Team Incubates Healthcare Start-Up

LoftyInc's Team (L-R)- Dami Agboola & Robert Reffell 
In LoftyInc's first foray to extending her start-up incubation services to the Diaspora, the Houston based incubation team led by Partner, Dami Agboola assisted by Associate Robert Reffell helped launch a healthcare management start-up in the growing healthcare delivery space: Coeur Group LLC. LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited provides total advisory, financing  and key management solutions to the concern, and holds significant stake in the same.

Coeur Group is focused on delivering physical and occupational therapy solutions to nursing home facilities and their clients. Another emerging line of business for Coeur is providing patient management solutions to key clients including home healthcare businesses and healthcare providers in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area. In the coming year, diagnostic services amongst others will be added to the full service clinic from which she operates.

Consultation & Physical Therapy Center at the 12-bed Managed  Facility  In Houston
Staffed with capable professionals including doctors, physical therapists, nurses and medical informatics experts leveraging technology to provide 21st century healthcare solutions to the industry, Coeur Group is positioned to ride the next wave of healthcare spendings to be unleashed by the ageing population. As a testimony to the enormous potentials of the business, Operations Director Robert Reffell asserted that "within the first one week of full operations, twenty patients were signed up and three major agreements with home health companies were executed" by her principals. 
Core Investor & Board Chairman, Wole Jackson at Coeur Group HQ
Operating from an ultra-modern facility at 9889 Bellaire Blvd. Houston, Coeur Group provides a pioneer experiment overseas for LoftyInc's collaborative partnership model of start-up incubation. Entrepreneur Wole Jackson a core investor in the venture believes the LoftyInc team has brought value added insights to starting up the venture. The soon to be launched Innovation Incubation Initiative (I-3) with Africa Leadership Foundation is focused on scaling up on the collaborative partnership model for business incubation.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

LoftyInc's Exec Partner Joins World Bank Open Forum 2010

This year, the World Bank is organizing a two-and-half-day virtual Open Forum during the Bank-Fund Annual Meetings. The goal is to open the meetings up to the general public and to spark discussion and interaction on the development agenda. 


As part of the Jumpstarting Jobs online discussion the forum will be focusing on youth unemployment and the real need to invest in youth. In 2009, 81 million young people were unemployed, the most ever. The youth unemployment rate is about 5 times that of adults in many countries. What needs to change to engage young people in the world economy and avoid a "lost generation?"


Speaking specifically to the question of youth unemployment and using innovation and entrepreneurship to tackle such in Session 2 of Day 1  is LoftyInc's Executive Partner, Michael Oluwagbemi who joined the forum via a pre-recorded Skype conversation on October 7, 2010. The forum continues for a second day. Hosted by Femi Oke, formerly of CNN and now of Public Radio International, scheduled guests are:


Tamar Manuelyan Atinc 
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank

Janamitra Devan
Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa region, World Bank
Rebeca Moreno Jimenez
Public Information Assistant, Latin America and Caribbean region, World Bank
Christian H.M. Ketels
Director of the Competitiveness Institute, Harvard University
Riska Mirzalina
Youth Entrepreneur, Indonesia
Mahmoud Mohieldin
Managing Director World Bank and former Minister of Investment, Egypt
Radha Muthiah
Vice President for Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, CARE USA
Michael Oluwagbemi
Youth Entrepreneur, World Bank Youthink! blogger
Stephen Pursey
Senior Policy Advisor, International Labour Organisation
Kyle Taylor
Youth Entrepreneur