Stephen Young Global Leader MBA scholars announced for 2025-26
Strathclyde Business School welcomes its third cohort of Stephen Young Global Leader MBA scholars. Following a rigorous selection process, five outstanding candidates have received a generous fees and stipend scholarship to support them in undertaking the Strathclyde MBA full-time programme based at the Glasgow campus.
The SYGL scholarship aims to develop global leaders who will have a positive impact on business, management, and society. Alongside the learnings from the renowned Strathclyde MBA programme, each SYGL scholar benefits from enhanced leadership opportunities as well as being part of the wider community of the Stephen Young Institute for International Business.
Strathclyde Business School welcomes the Stephen Young Global Leader MBA scholars for 2025-26:
Kolawole Adekanmi
A business consultant who has applied practical and strategic thinking to launch two ventures: DigitalMedHub, which helps healthcare innovators scale impact in underserved markets and DigitalFundHub, a platform that helps nonprofits stabilize funding amid changing policies. Through these initiatives he has supported over 30 organisations internationally and helped secure significant funding contributing to several UN Sustainable Development Goals. He has also mentored early-career professionals, supported women-led clinics, and run youth development programmes within faith-based communities. He aims to further develop his leadership and strategic skills through the Strathclyde MBA and the SYGL scholarship programme.
Pius Andruda
Pius is a Senior Audit and Assurance Associate working for PwC in the Government and Public Sector Department and currently studying for his ACCA professional accountancy exams. Pius wants to complete an MBA to grow his knowledge and skills and become a more competent and sustainable leader, build great networks, and take his impact in society to the next level. He hopes that the MBA will prepare him to excel at delivering value as a manager in the short-term and in the long-term he hopes to be a strategic global leader driving effective utilisation of economic resources in the health sector.
Jessalyn Gerbolz
A tech entrepreneur who is a founder and member of the executive team of three acquired startups in the telecom and digital infrastructure space, specialising in difficult dense urban areas. Jessalyn is passionate about helping industry build the infrastructure needed to power the network that current and future AI, IoT and Tech applications will be built upon. Jessalyn carries out charity work with Angel Network which supports female founders from BAME communities and wants to go into the Venture Capital space after completing her MBA. Jessalyn feels it is important to have socially- and environmentally-conscious people involved in the decision-making processes of fund allocations.
Lisa Mahlupeka
A Marketing and Sales Executive with a commitment to creating positive social impact through advancing healthcare, Lisa specialises in Biochemistry as well as Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. She is dedicated to creating positive change, as evidenced by her leadership on the impactful careHPV project in Zimbabwe which introduced improved cervical cancer screening for underserved communities of women. As a testament to her principled and people-oriented approach, she successfully implemented a large-scale public health initiative that involved cross-sector collaboration, logistics coordination, and cultural adaptation. This resulted in a 400% increase in screenings in a single year. Lisa is pursuing an MBA to drive transformative healthcare innovation and lead sustainable change in underserved communities.
Oluseun Anisere
Oluseun is a supply chain management professional with nearly a decade of experience in supply chain fulfilment, demand forecasting, supply planning, procurement and operations strategy across various industries such as telecommunications, manufacturing, packaging. He has led initiatives that improved business efficiency, introduced and implemented a demand planning model and delivered measurable impact across industries. At Airtel Networks he ensured the timely delivery and availability of commercial and technical materials to help bridge Nigeria’s digital divide through socially impacting project launches such as 5G deployment, eSim, Smart boxes, Routers, and ODU, thereby driving positive change. Being growth-oriented, he is pursuing an MBA to strengthen his strategic capabilities and enhance his global outlook.
The Stephen Young Global Leader (SYGL) scholarship is awarded to scholars of exceptional merit undertaking Strathclyde Business School’s fulltime MBA at the University of Strathclyde’s Glasgow campus. The award is presented in the name of Professor Stephen Young, a former Head of the Department of Marketing and co-founder of the Strathclyde International Business Unit. The award is made possible through the generous donation of Dr Charles Huang and the Charles Huang Foundation.