NITMA 2021

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the General Partner and Co-founder of Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching and community for mission-driven innovators building an African Future where purpose and prosperity is within everyone’s reach.

Prior to co-founding Future Africa, He helped to build Flutterwave and Andela, two of Africa’s largest and fastest-growing technology companies backed by global investors.

Iyinoluwa, more popularly known as “E”, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He also sits on the board of a number of corporate and non-profit organizations and advises a number of national and sub-national governments across Africa on how to support high growth innovation-driven enterprises in their domains.

High-performance C-level executive with advanced technology experience
Mr. Tewogbade is a Senior Solution Architect with over 23 years of experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry, helping clients align IT strategies with corporate strategic objectives across all departments, divisions, and locations.

Effective and wholly accountable in high-profile executive roles
Consistently successful in maximizing corporate performance. Drive growth, generate revenues, capture market share, improve profits, and enhance value in different markets. With demonstrated proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and lead complete project life cycles, from initial planning and needs determination to final testing and deployment of large enterprise systems. Throughout his IT career, Mr. Tewogbade has been involved end-to-end in several business process automation and data analytics projects in the telecommunication, manufacturing, retail, financial services industries and in public sector. Mr. Tewogbade is able to overcome complex business challenges and make high-stakes decisions using experience-backed judgment, humor, innovation, and strong work ethic.

Visionary thinker with global perspective and entrepreneurial drive
Kazeem has been the founding CEO of Bluechip Technologies Ltd and has effectively led the company to becoming a top IT company in Nigeria, Kenya and DRC. A detail-oriented administrator with excellent analytical and project tracking skills, ability to prioritize and work proactively with excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Valued advisor to company boards, investors, and top-tier executives. Mr. Tewogbade is also a serial investor in many startups having co-founded Leadpath and he is a director in Voltron Capital.

Strong orientations in operations and finance
He has acquired over the years a comprehensive understanding of database design and methodology from multiple perspectives (user, designer, and developer) and has hands-on experience in strategy alignments, requirements elicitation and analysis, system and database design, design of big data ingestion and transformation pipelines, and design of dimensional and OLAP models. Mr. Tewogbade is committed to delivering cost-effective, superior quality projects.

Mr. Tewogbade has a B.SC (First Class Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan

Professor Stella Chinye CHIEMEKE holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from University of Lagos and a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the same University. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology, Akure in 2004

Prof. Chiemeke started her professional career first as a programmer (1986-1987), and later the Head of Computer Centre of the Edo State University (now Ambrose Alli University), Ekpoma (1987-1994). In1994, she joined the services of the University of Benin, Benin City, as an Assistant Lecturer and rose to the position of a Professor in 2009 at the same time the second Female Professor of Computer Science in Nigeria and First in the University of Benin. She has supervised over eighty (80) Master of Science students and Sixteen (16) Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) students in the Department of Computer Science, University of Benin and has published over 104 publications in national and international reputable journals.

Prof. Chiemeke has 12 academic books in the area of Computer Science and Programming. She is a Fellow of the Renewable and Alternative Energy Society of Nigeria (REASON), a Fellow of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Fellow of the Strategic Institute for Natural Resources and Human Development (FRHD). She is also a member of Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Member, Association of Computer Machinery (ACM), USA, Member, International Network for Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES), Ottawa, Canada, Member, Organization of Women Scientists for the Developing World (OWSDW), Trieste, Italy, Member, International Association of Engineers, (IAENG), UK, Member, Society for Women  Engineers (SWE), Chicago, Member,   Nigerian Women in Information  Technology (NIWIIT).

Prof. (Mrs.) S.C Chiemeke has continued to display exceptional administrative experience, intelligence, firmness, and poise of character which is summed up in her transformation initiatives and leadership model. Prof. Chiemeke has served in various administrative capacities both in the University of Benin and beyond. She was Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences; the University of Benin from January 2006 – June 2007; Acting Head of Department of Computer Science (2002-2004 and 2006-2009); Director of ICTU/CRPU; the University of Benin in July 2010 to February 2015; Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) and the pioneer Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Directors of ICT in Nigerian Universities (ComDICT).

Prof. Chiemeke was immediate past Rector, Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State from 2017-2021. With the establishment of the University of Delta, Agbor by the Government of Delta State, in 2021, she was appointed the Pioneer Vice-Chancellor to steer the affairs of the new institution.