Jessica Hope

Jessica is the Founder of Wimbart. She started Wimbart in 2014 and has gone on to build the leading Africa tech focussed PR agency, working with over 60 of the continent’s most exciting and well-funded brands and companies, including Andela, M-KOPA, Kobo360, 54gene, Paystack, Gokada, CcHUB, Endeavor Nigeria and more. 

She graduated from the University of Manchester with a BA in History and MA in Religion & Politics, and worked as a journalist & editor for a number of years. Prior to starting her own PR company, Jessica worked at  the Natural History Museum, the Jewish Museum and was Head of Communications for African entertainment brand, IROKO.

With over 15 years’ experience in communications, Jessica regularly gives talks, sits on and moderates panels and gives interviews on the subject of comms and strategy in Africa’s technology space. She was  named in PRWeek UK’s Powerbook 2019/2020/2021, she is a mentor for UK-based BME PR Pros, and also for Google Launchpad Africa and was recognised as one of Provoke’s EMEA “Innovators to Watch” 2021.