Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Nigeria

• Mutual Benefits Life Assurance Limited, began operations in 2003 as a business unit of Mutual.
• Benefits Assurance Pic. Today, it is Nigeria's leading life insurer with three subsidiaries across West Africa - Mutual Benefits Micro-finance Bank and two offshore companies: Mutual Benefits Assurance in Liberia and Niger.

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

• .cv is the domain extension built for professionals to own their digital identity.
• Leading the global adoption of .cv, the domain extension for professionals, enabling individuals to own a permanent digital CV and professional identity on the open web.
• Scaling the ecosystem through rapid domain adoption and steady month over month growth, with thousands of professionals registering name.cv domains to publish structured career profiles.
• Building distribution through a global registrar network (Namecheap, Namesilo, Dynadot, Spaceship, hello.cv, GName, MarkMonitor, 101Domain) to make .cv available worldwide and accelerate adoption among professionals, students, and institutions.

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Supporting Legatum entrepreneurs, MBA students and initiatives accelerating development in growth markets with product strategy, venture building support, industry access and office hours.

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Fast Forward is a venture studio—and early-stage fund—that builds and backs African founders building ventures to unlock prosperity anywhere. Key Industries: AI, Fintech and Future of Work
• Portfolio: AltSchool (TalentQL), Dojah, Bumpa, Pesa, Autogon, Alliance Chemicals, Caregave Health, Cloudmall, Chimoney, Cribstock, Clickafix, LifeBox Health, Sendchamp (acq. by WhoGoHost), Ola.CV, Rivia Health, Sorce, Tuteria

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Tinkering on x-border, money flows and newer ways of value transfers

Apr 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Worked on Jobseeker APIs, Platform Segmentation, Verticals, Co-brands and new bets.

Aug 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · South Africa

• One Africa Media owns and operates leading classifieds (Cars, General Classifieds, Jobs and Property) in Africa (currently operating in 10 countries). As Head of Jobs, I was responsible for P&L, product and business strategy for the Jobs Vertical and working closely with the country CEOs of the jobs businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Oct 2014 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Lagos - Nairobi - Durban

• One Africa Media is the parent company for Jobberman and other leading classifieds in Africa. (http://techcabal.com/2015/04/29/one-africa-media-acquires-100-stake-jobberman-kenyas-brightermonday/)
• As Product Director for the Jobs Businesses of One Africa Media, I help shape product strategy and manage product deployment for the leading job websites in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda (a 346 million population).

Jul 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Shifted focus to product management to help reposition the now-scaled company for revenue growth.
• Built internal reporting and integration tools for sales, accounting and HR.
• Redesign of platform.
• Launch of Open APIs, mobile apps, ATS, new mobile site.
• New Products launched include CV Service, Jobseeker Premium, CV Database Search, Quick Recruit Service, Browser Apps, Auto apply, Auto moderation and CV Parsing.

Jul 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr

• Took on CMO role as the platform grew, to lead digital marketing and partnership efforts.
• Set up VAS service to power jobs via SMS
• Managed integrated marketing campaigns (TV, Social Media Marketing, Messaging Platforms, Offline, Newspapers).
• Sealed key partnership deals with online media (BusinessDay, Punch, Vanguard, Guardian), telcos (MTN) and SUREP (Federal Government of Nigeria).
• Tech-led Growth hacking with SMS, IM, Widgets, Email and A/B Testing.
• Achieved 5x growth - 300k users to 1.5m users and helped position Jobberman as the most visible brand for jobs in Nigeria.
• Extreme focus on metrics - user signups, applications and UVs.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2017 · 8 yrs 4 mos

• Founded the company, programmed and designed the first version of Jobberman.com . Jobberman.com is Nigeria's No. 1 jobs website and the 13th most visited Nigerian website as at December 2011. Presently focused on product development and marketing (online and offline). In 2016, I stepped up to working with other employment businesses in One Africa Media (mother company of Jobberman) and continue to support the Jobberman team to success.
• I have since left Jobberman to focus on building and supporting portfolio companies and new ventures targeting global opportunities

Aug 2009 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Founding CTO, solely built platform V 1.0
• Led expanded team of 4 to standardise platform architecture and code refactoring
• PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS, Smarty, JQuery, UI/UX, Linux Server Administration

Feb 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 3 mos · Lagos, Nigeria

• Invested directly (40+) as an angel or through VentureKinetics or Whogohost Ventures. Also as an LP in Musha Ventures, RallyCap, Future Africa and Future Outer Join.
• Portfolio includes: Leeds United, Formless, kiki.club, Ropay, Clearbit (acq by Hubspot), Laskie (acq by Twitter now X), Cova, Buycoins, ESL(PayCentre Africa), Bumpa, VFD Group, Vela, Rohealth, Ongair, Kippa, Remedial Health, Rovedana, Rollout, 1500naira.com (exited), Eventprime, Nguvu Health, moni.africa, Payday, Reliance HMO (part-exited), Verilium, Veend, PayFlexi, Bank54, Apata, Sendstack, Klump, Timon Cards, Tunl, Snoot and more.

Mar 2012 – Jul 2012 · 4 mos · Lagos

• Taught the COM 522 Web Design Class. Lectured on basic web design, web project management, usability and testing.

Sep 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Top30Under30 is out to find outstanding young entrepreneurs on the continent under the age of 30. Our goal is to honor and empower these people by connecting them to the formidable resources of the Business community, with the overall goal of building African Brands that can take on the world. Our winners may be very different in personality, but they will have this in common: They will be doing something that has extraordinary economic and social potential.

Sep 2007 – Jun 2008 · 9 mos

• Springhill is a not-for-profit that campaigns against sexual harrasment.

Dec 2005 – Apr 2011 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• ennovateNIGERIA is a brand strategy and web development company based in Nigeria.
• Founded ennovateNIGERIA in 2004 at age 16.
• Responsible for web design and application development, digital marketing and brand architecture for companies and governmental setups.
• In charge of business development, client retention and dealmaking. Was team lead on most of the projects executed over the space of 8 years.