HARRY'S BIO:
Harry's professional experience has been a very diverse and multifaceted experience from the Sports Industry through the Business of Basketball and Coaching to the Non-Profit, Social Impact and Technology industry while specializing in strategic and accountable leadership, people, culture and community building.
Harry Ezenibe is a Strategic Leader, Community Builder, Accountability Coach and Inspirational Speaker. He is passionate about Social Impact and Empowerment. Harry grew up in Kano City, Northern Nigeria: A city and region that experienced constant religious conflict. He found a passion and safe haven in playing basketball. Harry was an NBA Africa Basketball Without Borders Camp Participant in 2005, 2006. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, he was an exchange athlete, first in France, Serbia and Italy prior to arriving Canada for his studies in November 2009.
In 2010, his basketball journey eventually brought him to Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he won numerous awards: including the Provincial Nova Scotia Criminal Justice Student Award for promoting a humane, equitable and effective criminal justice system through community involvement in Nova Scotia and the National Prestigious Ken Shields Award for excellence in Academics, Community Involvement and Athletics. Harry was an Academic All-Canadian at Saint Mary’s University. He graduated with a Double Major in Sociology, Criminology and a Co-op Concentration in 2014. In 2017, he received The Young Alumnus of the Year Award and in 2019 he starred as a recruitment figure by Saint Mary’s University for his extensive community involvement and global impact though HarryCares Foundation (https://smu.ca/hereishow/basketball-empowerment.html)
After graduation, Harry worked with the Toronto Raptors Front Office in the Player Development Department from 2014-2016 before joining the teams affiliate, Raptors 905 in the Fall of 2016 where they won the 2017 NBA-G-League Championship in 2017/2018. He worked as a Player Development Liaison to former NBA-All-Star and Coach, Jerry Stackhouse while ensuring Quality Control. He handled the off-court Player Development programming and was overseeing the NBA Player Assignment notification and recall process to the league. Harry managed personality assessment program that identified player attributes and behavioral tendencies of all NBA Draft Prospects that visited Toronto 2015-2018. He has coached multiple NBA Global Elite Camps in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Angola, and have contributed to build picnic tables for orphan kids in New Orleans through the NBACares program. In 2017/2018 summer, he coached with the Giants of Africa organization as a means to educate and enrich the lives of African youth. (http://giantsofafrica.org/day-2-nigeria-camp-2017/) in Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast. In 2019/2020, Harry transferred his people skills to the Technology industry and worked as the Head of People and Culture with Vish LTD, a Software Company in Toronto. His effective leadership has also been transfered in helping to build a working team on the Goodszilla mobile app https://goodszilla.ca
Harry is an exceptional leader in the community, and have continued to inspire action through the HarryCares Foundation. In November 2020, he established the HCF Youth Pathways Program powered by CIBC (https://www.harrycares.org/youth-pathways). Harry has maximized his tool, and live his passion around the world through the HarryCares Foundation (HCF) which he founded in 2008 while living in Nigeria.