OluwaKayode ADEDAYO CNSE President / Founder
Kayode is an engineer with many years of experience in the information Technology and Telecommunications field though he read electrical engineering and started off with electrical engineering building services design consultancy before focusing on Information and Communication Technology which was his passion. He graduated from the University of Ilorin; Kwara State in 1992/93. He is a Chief Ideas Technocrat and Visionary with great ideas and a solutions consultant in ICT and e-governance. He was a Consultant in the audit of core engineering assets of the Liquidation of Nitel/Mtel. He was international partner to a top Wireless Service Assurance OEM tool company and a few other companies always trying to bridge the technological gap between developed countries and Nigeria by partnering with cutting edge companies. He was involved in engineering business development between Huawei & MTN. He developed the first Pinging software with MS-DOS 6.22 used in CBCLN bank in 1998. He is a also a certified professional of a UK Project Management Institute. Presently he is researching new solutions that can be developed and used to ease day to day problems from RMS, Man to Machine, V2X, IoT, AI, TeleMed and some few other emerging technologies. He created an ICT Pro-Social Network Blog ( including 3 other blog for 3other sectors) with generating advertising revenue and owns many group for promoting ICT Business and careers and members and visitors are from worldwide on the site and LinkedIn. He is a Corporate Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. CNSE and Alumni of Motorola Cellular Institute Midrand, South Africa. He is also International Partner WBAF
He is married and blessed with three children.
Linda OBI Business Lead
Linda builds and operates ventures. She has successfully designed, built, and scaled tech-driven platform companies in emerging markets delivering businesses across SSA. She serves as Business Leader Nigeria for Farmcrowdy, the leading Agtech platform in West Africa Prior to that, she was the Director of Franchise Aquisition at Tolaram Group (manufacturers of staple brands e.g Kellogg’s, Indomie etc) where she was responsible for partnering with startups to deliver structured franchising, financial, and API services, delivering over 250k retail outlets in Nigeria. Linda was former brand Consultant at Tolaram Group who transitioned into helping technology startups scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. She did this in leadership positions at Divergent Group and Farmgate Africa as the Chief Operating officer and in her most recent position as Business leader, West Africa at Farmcrowdy. Linda earns a seat at the table wherever she serves. With 20+ combined years of experience in the FMCG, Retail ,Agri-tech and E-commerce sector she embraces the core values of integrity, innovation, and growth. She has MBA from Lagos Business School and Business School Netherlands.
Sherif USMAN VP / Deputy Director ICT
Sherif has had an extensive working career in ICT across several industries including Banking, Telecommunications, Education and Judiciary. He is presently Deputy Director (ICT) in the Nigerian Judiciary. He is also a member of several national and global professional bodies including the British Computer Society, the Information Systems, Audit & Control Association (ISACA), Association for computing Machinery (USA), the project Management institute (PMI), Member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Administrators of Nigeria, Member of the Computer Forensics Institute of Nigeria, and Associate Member of the Nigeria Institute of Management. He was also Vice-President of ISSA (Information System Security Association, Abuja Chapter). Mr. Sherif USMAN is an alumnus of the University of Abuja, Nigeria, the University of Calabar, Nigeria and Swansea University, United Kingdom where he earned his Post –Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and MSc in Software Technology (MSc) respectively. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Fellow of the Nigeria Computer Society (FNCS). He has also presented seminar papers on eLibrary, IS Management and Security, and Digital Forensics and has served as Expert Witness in some litigation matters. He is a Member: https://cisomag.eccouncil.org/advisory-board/
Eniola ADEDAYO Non Executive Director
Eniola is a qualified banker and Economist with BSc in Economics and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Lagos with about 21 years of experience in the Marketing sector of various banks and presently a senior commercial officer for the government in trade & investment.
