Esosa Johnson

BBFI Venture Scout

2024 - Current

Investing $10k-$25k checks into exceptional pre-seed Black founders!

Founder

2023

THE LARGEST ACCELERATOR EVENT IN AMERICA! The #1 place startups and accelerators meet. We are providing startups the resources, access to capital and networks that help them grow; and providing pipeline to investors and accelerators. Join us on September 29th, 2023 at Brooklyn Navy Yard! Register: acceleratorcon.com

Cofounder

2017

Black Women Talk Tech (BWTT) —a community of 50,000+ global Black women scalable entrepreneurs. In the last five years, BWTT supports female entrepreneurs through the annual Roadmap to Billions Conference, over ten local chapters (including London), providing access to real funding opportunities, an informative podcast, eLearning webinars, year-round live events, and more.

Scout

2020 - 2024

Program Lead, Investments

2021 - 2023

Chief Executive Officer

2020 - 2020

MaskGrant to help companies protect their employees and healthcare workers on the frontline. Every purchase you make with MaskGrant, we donate masks to healthcare facilities in your name.

Cofounder

2013 - 2020

COSIGN is an app that allows users to directly shop for products that they see in social-media posts. Users can include product information by tagging what they are wearing in the image, creating a social media-meet-shopping experience. This powered our image recognition to identify items in images and video.

Balance Transfer Program Manager- Vice President, Citi Cards

2011 - 2014

Balance Growth, Sales and Marketing Team • Manage the end to end monthly Balance Transfers Campaign process including expense management, customer contact strategy through all channels, lead audit process, and overall program creation • Develop and package all targeting criteria, offers and customer communication strategies for internal partners and over 14 million customer base • Lead and collaborate with partners from cross-functional teams through the strategic development and execution of campaigns • Develop, track and manage program level P&L forecast for annual $15 billion goal with Risk and Decision management partners • Monitored and adhered to Federal and State controls to minimize risk exposure and ensure operational excellence • Influence creative direction for customer engagement and satisfaction through NPS scoring

Board Member

2011 - 2013

Co-chair of annual fund raiser "Strong Kids Campaign"

Management Associate

2008 - 2011

Management Associate, Global Consumer Group- Retail Bank July 2008 – March 2011 Branch Sales and Marketing Rotation, Long Island City, NY • Assist with the developing, coordinating and implementation of various projects for the US Retail Bank including ‘Our Promise’ initiative • Manage community engagements including recruitment of Citi employee volunteers for regional events • Project lead on retail strategy program to multi-relationship deepening and retention Financial Center Service, Operations and Sales Rotation, New York City Division • Responsible for weekly reports to analyzed the productivity and implementation of new business model in all the branches in Manhattan Downtown and Staten Island area • Created interactive product knowledge training to improve the understanding of product and services • Responsible for the integration of new sales and service process as well as organize Micro-marketing events, promotional campaign and product initiatives • Created team builder activities to generate sales and boost employee morale which led to winning 2008 4th quarter campaign