Vanessa Mbanefo

Vanessa is the Managing Director of the DSCI Open eBL initiative, a membership driven initiative launched by the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) to deliver an open-source, standards-based protocol for electronic bills of lading.

Vanessa provides overall operational and administrative leadership to the Open eBL initiative and builds trusted relationships between its stakeholders to encourage a climate of disciplined execution and to foster new ideas and strategies that enhance the Initiative’s overall success.

Prior to joining the Center for Global Enterprise (CGE) which manages the DSCI Open eBL initiative, Vanessa was an award-winning manager at Deloitte and served as a project delivery lead within its Enterprise Technology and Performance business unit where she oversaw delivery of the first Digital Cabinet analytics solution to one of the largest commercial capitals and subnational governments in sub-saharan Africa.

Earlier in her career, Vanessa served as a business analyst at Accenture from 2013 to 2019 where she supported various enterprise solution implementations of ERP products, IT service management tools, service-oriented middleware solutions and other enterprise technologies.

Vanessa also serves as a program advisor to the CGE’s Africa Women Entrpreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) where she provides business and program advisory to entrepreneurs across a range of industries.

Vanessa holds an MBA from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Caritas University, Nigeria, and is a certified Scrum Master.