CEO & Founder Hatch Ideas and Hatch Africa. Experienced Creative Business Consultant, Independent Producer, Project Developer and Project Manager with a demonstrated history of developing social and cultural change projects. Skilled in Concept Development, Project Management, Partnership Building and Brokering, Research, Market Insight, Market Entry and Fundraising. Operates across the Creative and Cultural industries; Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Music, Craft, Festivals, Film, Theatre and Event Management. With a expertise to drive initiatives making an impact for Africa. Yemisi founded HATCH in 2002 as HATCH Events with a focus on producing live events to broaden culture and raise the profile of African arts and artists. In 2006, she built business support and professional development into the company’s remit to better support sustainability for Creatives, Producers and Makers. She set up HATCH Africa in 2012 to provide support that was specific to the needs across the continent. And set up HATCH Ideas in 2017, as am umbrella global brand.By developing a system of research, consultancy, programme management and business development support, Yemisi has evolved the agency into supporting really amazing people and organisations get their cultural, creative and social change projects off the ground. HATCH Ideas works across a variety of sectors, with a focus on the creative and cultural industries. Providing  research, concept development, project management and project delivery. Clients include; Arts Council England, BBC London, British Council, City University, Department for Industry & Trade (UK), Goethe Institute, Historic England, Institut français, the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Social Enterprise London. Today, Yemisi’s two main ambitions are is to offer robust development support for creative and cultural entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers anywhere in the world and to develop funding and financing options to better serve Africa’s rapidly growing Creative Economy. “Yemisi is an extremely focused project manager. She is wonderfully gifted at simplifying complicated tasks and always makes overcoming the hardest tasks enjoyable”. Fahmida Begum, Senior Manager CIDA