Lovelyn Bassey is an entrepreneur and Chief Operating Officer at Healthgarde International around the world. She runs Healthgarde International currently in over 8 countries and it’s continuous development across Africa and the world.

She has a Law degree from the University of Pretoria with 3 Masters degrees from Howard University School of Law, University of Derby and Nottingham Trent University (MBA). She also holds licenses to practice Law in South Africa and New York. She’s happily married with 3 kids; often travels and works between South Africa, Nigeria and other African countries.

Lovelyn is also the owner of Urban Ethnic Market in South Africa, which is a 1-stop African supermarket that caters to various African and Caribbean grocery needs.

She’s a thriving entrepreneur who loves to empower and mentor others personally and through Healthgarde. She participates a lot in round-table talks or open discussions at conferences about female entrepreneurship, empowerment, and building our wealth as Africans. Her most recent engagements were the #Ican4IR African leadership conference with Dr Molapo and the Township Entrepreneurs Alliance.

Lovelyn’s Healthgarde business mantra is:

“As a person who grew up in direct selling, it is such a thrill to work with independent consultants and entrepreneurs at various levels today. We do our best to provide consultants with support and structure so you can focus on what you do the best worry-free.

We have the right policies, processes, and procedures in place to guide you and we have deployed the right technology to boost our business such as our consultant websites and portals that helps you manage your personal business. Throughout the COVID -19 experience, we have adapted to video conferencing for training and equipping our consultants with social media skills as well as other online marketing tools to sell their products with and grow their businesses”.

Lovelyn’s personal Mantra is:

“The worst anyone can tell is No so never be afraid of failure because every failure teaches you one more lesson in your journey to success:

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