House of Tara Founder, Tara Durotoye has been honoured by the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III. She was bestowed with the Royal Order of Iwere, the h
House of Tara Founder, Tara Durotoye has been honoured by the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III. She was bestowed with the Royal Order of Iwere, the highest distinction and just one step below becoming a chief.
This took place at Aghofen, the Olu of Warri Palace in Warri, Delta State, as part of activities lined up to celebrate the fourth coronation anniversary of the Olu of Warri.
A beauty entrepreneur who pioneered the professional make up industry in Nigeria in the late 90’s, Tara is the founder and current C.E.O of House of Tara International. She is considered a major force in the Nigerian female entrepreneurship community having created an impact business that has empowered tens of thousands of beauty entrepreneurs through the “Tara Beauty Entrepreneur” initiative. She continues to be a thought leader and major influencer through several in classroom and online courses that focus on sharing her 20+ year experience with other budding entrepreneurs.
As a game changer in Nigerian business, Tara has served as a powerful role model for women in business and worked as an advocate for creating awareness of the importance of building businesses that positively impact society. She’s a huge advocate of impact entrepreneurship and is considered the poster girl for female entrepreneurship in West Africa.
Under her leadership, House of Tara emerged one of jobberman’s best 100 companies to work for in Nigeria 2017 and continues to be considered the number one indigenous make up brand for Nigerian women. She has received several national and international Awards for her contribution to the industry and active role in Entrepreneurship and Empowerment.
In 2013 she was on Forbes list of 20 young power women in Africa and more recently in 2020 top 50 Africa most powerful women alongside the President of Ethiopia, Sahle- Work Zewde, Chairman of First Bank, Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Ngozi Okonjo Eweala, Chimamanda Adichie, Lupita Nyongo, Obi Ezekwesili amongst others. She is an alumnus of the of Lagos Business School Chief Executive Programme, INSEAD Abu Dhabi, Yale University, The Stanford SEED Transformation Programme, and the Harvard Kennedy School having completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy in the 21st century.
She is a member of the France/Nigeria Investment club which was incorporated in 2018 by the French President Emmanuel Macron She serves on several boards which includes Bridge International Academies, So Fresh Neighborhood and African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) New York. She is an associate member of Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ).
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