Advisory Board Member
Wole Odetayo
Wole cofounded LoftyInc Allied Partners limited in 2009 and Nigeria’s premier venture accelerator, Wennovation Hub in 2010. Wole have played leading roles in building Nigerian Tech Ecosystem by conveying or supporting different initiatives like Lagos Angel Network and fsi.ng – a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) supported initiative that supports home-grown financial service innovators. Between 2014 & 2015, Wole briefly served as pioneer Operations Manager at iDEA Nigeria - a government and Accenture supported business incubator-accelerator.
Having failed at 2 businesses before succeeding at co-building LoftyInc Group into a multi-million-dollar social innovation business that specializes in serving BoP markets, his love for business development dates back to his university days where he studied Medicine & Surgery and doubled as a successful student entrepreneur.
Wole currently leads the team at a Pronov (PharmaTech company) that supports over 2000 micro & nano medicine stores serving poor communities (typically in slums & suburban areas) with the aim of improving the health and economic outcomes of members of those communities through access to quality essential medicines. Wole is passionate about birthing social change in Africa through Information Technology, Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship. His vision for Nigeria is a to become a top 10 economy by 2050