Viola Llewellyn

Viola Llewellyn is the Founder and CEO of The Tulle Box™, a new approach to self-curated leadership training & empowerment for women everywhere regardless of age, background, culture, ethnicity, profession, or phase of life. Women use The Tulle-Box™ to select and combine the right tools and strategies to show up Aware, Prepared & Ready™ for each stage of their unique lives.

Before The Tulle Box™ Llewellyn was the co-founder and President of award winning Ovamba Solutions, Inc. Under Ms. Llewellyn’s leadership, Ovamba successfully funded small businesses in Sub- Saharan Africa with over $140MM of global investor capital. She was also a founding team member of a life insurance investment fund with over $500MM AUM in Washington, DC where she led business development, investor communications and asset management divisions.

Her career started in the UK during the 80’s tech boom selling multi-million-dollar mainframes and designing disaster recovery solutions with IBM, Digital Equipment Corp., CACI, Wang Computers, and other SW/HW innovators. These early innovators are the foundation of our current global technology sector. Upon arriving in the USA on ‘vacation’ in the early 90’s she embraced the U.S. as home and joined Global Public Sector leadership teams at Unisys Corporation, KPMG Consulting, BearingPoint and Rothschild & Co. All of this happening at a time when young women, let alone young black women were neither seen nor included in the technology and innovation landscape as we know it today.

Llewellyn is listed in the “Digital Undivided Report” as one of the original cohorts of Black female tech founders who raised more than $1 million for their own technology company. Some of her other recognitions include Innovate Finance’s “Women in FinTech Power List”, and “Latice80’s Top 100 Women in Fintech 2019.” She was also the first Female African Tech Founder to speak at both “Slush”, Helsinki and “Slush, Tokyo.”

In late 2018, her TED Talk was included as part of the “Reboot” Series with Boston Consulting Group. She is a contributing and published author, most recently her chapter on “Purpose” was included in the book, “Digital For Good: Stand For Something Or You Will Fall” by Chris Skinner; and she has been a contributing author with the Brooking’s Institute and the Wilson Center over the last few years.

Llewellyn is a Global Technology Pioneer and Ambassador with the World Economic Forum, and spoke at the prestigious “Davos Summit” conference. She was the Chairperson of The Africa Fintech Summit from 2019 – 2021; she serves on a number of boards including ‘The Africa Professional Services Group’ and ‘Generosity Global’ a non-profit supporting water and sanitation projects.

Llewellyn’s family is originally from Cameroon. She was born, raised and educated in the U.K. lives between the African Continent and USA, and is a HUGE Batman fan!