Our Board of Directors

Dr. Michael Idachaba is a royal prince of the Igala kingdom in the middle belt region of Nigeria, and a biotechnologist with over 40 years of practice across West Africa, Australia and North America.

He currently serves as the President of Mijefa Corporation whose management provides independent food safety auditing services to businesses across the United States and Latin America.

Dr. Idachaba has played significant technical, Process Engineering, and Department Manager roles with major global Agro-based manufacturing companies like ADM, Cargill, and BASF respectively. His early career was in academics beginning as a Research Assistant and ending as an Associate Professor before transitioning to the private sector

Dr. Idachaba obtained his doctorate in biotechnology from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, his master’s degree in Food Science and Microbiology from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. His bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry was obtained from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

Augustina Omosigho is a trained Court Reporter and a published author based out of Mesquite, Texas.

She is currently a CART Provider/Captionist, an independent contractor supporting young children with learning disabilities in the Dallas Community Colleges.

Augustina Omosigho also runs her own nursing home for seniors.

Bukky Omotayo is a seasoned banker based out of Grand Prairie, Texas, with over 50 years of individual and commercial banking experience spanning West Africa, Europe and North America.

She currently works in the Grand Prairie School District, in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Louise Appell is a retired vice president of Macro International, a contract research firm located in the Washington, D.C Metro area. Her role there was to prepare proposals that win the funds necessary to do the research. She also led a team of 30 people to conduct the research and support the effort.

Dr. Appell’s primary interest has always been in educating children with disabilities, particularly the research and development that leads to instructional materials and strategies that work for students who are challenged. While at Macro, interest in using computers as an instructional tool was burgeoning and she was among the first of those who developed instructional materials to use this new asset including a program to teach social skills to special needs students. This project, funded by the U.S. Dept of Education, was demonstrated at the International Congress on Special Education in Beijing, China. Other, similar projects were demonstrated at international meetings in New Delhi, India, London, England, Brussels, Belgium, Paris, France, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Prior to Macro, Dr. Appell taught at the University of Kentucky, The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and Trinity College, also in Washington, D.C. Later she served as Associate Director of the National Committee on Arts for the Handicapped (NCAH). This was a new non-profit at the time and has since changed its name to Very Special Arts. At NCAH, her skill in winning proposals brought in the money to develop a program featuring artists working directly with people who are profoundly multi-handicapped, as well as many more research and development projects.

Louise Appell holds a B.A. from Smith College and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Iganya Abba is a Canadian-based pharmacist with over 30 years of pharmacy practice spanning West Africa and North America. She currently runs her private practice in Calgary, Canada.

Dr. Tunde Alaofin is an Associate Professor in the School of Cybersecurity & Information Technology at the University of Maryland Global Campus. In addition to his academic position, he is the President & CEO of Delexis Healthcare Solutions incorporated and a former Franchisee & Chief Technology Officer of Geeks on Call Corporation in Washington, DC Metro.
Dr. Alaofin was a Systems & Software Engineer with over 25 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence Systems, Cloud Computing, Healthcare Management Capacity Building, and Assistive Technology implementations for Corporate America and United States Governmental Agencies including the Department of Health & Human Services, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Social Security Administration.
Dr. Alaofin served as an Assistant Director of Information Systems at the University of South Carolina from 1994 to 1997, and as Senior Director of Technology at LightTrade Corporation in Washington, DC from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Alaofin earned a Doctorate in Information Technology from Walden University, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Georgia Southwestern State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Information Systems Management from Allen University and the University of South Carolina.
Artificial Intelligence Systems, Machine Learning, and Software Engineering are among his research interests. Dr. Alaofin is an author of two books and several publications in scholarly journals. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for the Advancement of Computational Intelligence (AAAI). Dr. Alaofin is an author, mentor as well as an entrepreneur.

Heather Adams is a seasoned non-profit professional supporting diverse communities throughout the United States for 16 years. Her early work focused primarily with children and families within the State child-welfare systems in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

For the last 10 years, Heather has served as a Non-Profit Director for adult and disability communities in California, Maryland and throughout the United States. This work has provided Heather with expertise and love for Project Management, Leadership Development and Non-Profit system management.

Heathers has successfully managed projects for, and launched Community Resource Centers in Chicago, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Maryland. Heather is originally from Massachusetts and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and a Master of Education degree in Psychological Studies.