Bibo Alhabra (MBA’27)
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Name: Bibo AlhabraÌý
Major: Master of Business Administration
Hometown: Denver (originally from Nigeria)
Additional Role at Leeds: Co-President of the AI in Business Club
Bibo Alabrah came into the Leeds MBA program with experience spanning petroleum engineering, geoscience, software development, and healthcare analytics. While confident in his technical foundation, he pursued an MBA to strengthen his strategic thinking—particularly as he worked to refine and grow his own company.
What's your favorite thing about Leeds?
The people. The MBA cohort is genuinely diverse. You have someone currently working at a startup, someone actively serving in the military, people from different countries, and a real range of majors and professional backgrounds. The collaboration is what makes it work. Team projects here are not the kind where one person carries the load. Everyone brings something different to the table, and you learn as much from your classmates as you do from the coursework.
What’s one thing you want to accomplish this year?
I want to land my first client for my company, Prexisio, under its new positioning. For the last three years, Prexisio has been a generalist firm, trying to serve everyone. The MBA has helped me see the industry where this work fits best, and I have spent this year repositioning the company around healthcare operational intelligence for multi-site specialty surgical practices, converting a sharper, better-aimed version of the business into its first real engagement.
Where do you see yourself in the future?
In five years, I want Prexisio to be the firm that mid-market surgical practices call when they realize their data is costing them money they cannot even see. In 10 years, I want to have built something that outlasts me. And in 20 years, I want to be in a position to invest in and advise other founders who are building from nontraditional starting points, as I did.
I have been building things since I was 14. The long game has always been about creating something undeniable—not waiting for permission.
What’s a pride point for you?
In 2015, my master’s thesis in petroleum geoscience won the best graduate paper in Africa through the Society of Petroleum Engineers. That award fully funded my first trip to the United States to present at the SPE conference in Houston. A year later, I was invited as a guest speaker at the University of Kansas, addressing master’s and PhD students. I did not come from a family with any connections to that— I just did the work, and the work opened doors. That shapes how I approach everything.
What’s a skill you have that you wouldn't put on a resume?
Most of my best ideas do not come from sitting at a desk. I process by walking. If I am stuck on a strategy problem or a hard conversation, I go and walk, and somehow the pieces rearrange themselves.
ÌýI was looking for a program where I could build while I learned, not just absorb theory and wait until after graduation to apply it. Leeds has given me that. I have been able to run my company, test frameworks from class in real time, and have professors who actually engage with what I am doing outside the classroom.Ìý