Isabelle is a Senegalese born entrepreneur with Lebanese and Cape Verdean origins in China since 2012. She is also the happy Mother of a 3-year-old son Matteo.
Isabelle is a dynamic & creative person. Able to build up successful projects from scratch and gather people from different cultures and nationalities to make things happen! Highly professional and empathetic, she manages herself towards self-development and share the learned lessons with the community she created in order to lift up each other.
Helping people and elevate the image of Africa are her primary passions. HR at heart, Trader as a big part of her career, she never forgets where she comes from and has a contagious positivity and passion!
•TERANGA TRADE: After successfully being a General Manager of a German Trading company in Shanghai, she opened her very first company TERANGA (SHANGHAI) TRADE CO., LTD in 2014 which is specialized in trading, buying, identifying and managing projects in link with China and Africa mostly. Her clients are in many different fields however Teranga is taking a new strategic direction in 2020 focusing on Building Materials in Africa market.
•WEGOO2CHINA: Following her passion and Master’s in Human Resources Management, she created a Recruitment consulting company WEGOO2CHINA, which helps companies in China to hire bilingual local staff and tackle their HR related challenges.
•ATB: She co-founded a Tourism agency in Senegal: Africa Tours & Business (ATB) in February 2019.
•TERANGA VALLEY / Africa-China by Teranga Valley: She co-founded Teranga Valley in October 2018 which is a platform where likeminded businesspeople of any nationality in China can meetup and learn from each other. "TERANGA" is a Senegalese word that means Welcome! We believe we are all in a learning curve, so it doesn't matter whether you are a student or a professional. Everyone is welcome to join & share their valuable experience. Teranga Valley is holding weekly events in Shanghai and inspire others to achieve their Dreams and know more about Africa.
•AFRICELERATE: She recently co-founded Africelerate Africelerate which is a network of acceleration services providing support to African-founded startups or Africa focused startups with a positive impact on the African continent.
Email:ih@teranga-trade.com