Track Record:
Over 30 years of experience in the AI and digital infrastructure industry as an investor, operator, entrepreneur and founding engineer across the
entire AI value chain as follows:

Investor & Operator:
Created over $7.25 billion of value and liquidity events in Africa by backing several companies at the earliest stages across the AI and digital infrastructure value chain over the past decade as a pre-seed and seed investor, operator, and founding engineer, helping bring into Africa, some of the world’s leading digital infrastructure firms including Stripe, Equinix, Digital Realty, and American Tower Corporation.

Entrepreneur & Founding Engineer:
Founded five AI infrastructure companies to build the physical backbone that will enable the delivery and adoption of AI across Africa, including Tscale, a vertically integrated AI Infrastructure Company engineered for sovereign AI workloads; DST Data Centers, a pan African AI data center platform, Zuba, a GPUs leasing company, Hyoervolt, a pan African AI power platform, and Zoka, a payments and banking platform for agentic commerce.

Technical Adviser:
Served as Lenders’ technical adviser in the $7.5 billion funding round for the neocloud, CoreWeave that was co-led by Blackstone and Magnetar Capital, with strategic participation from Coatue Management, Carlyle, CDPQ, BlackRock, and DigitalBridge Credit, helping pioneer a new asset class for GPU financing.

The CoreWeave deal revolutionized digital infrastructure financing by pioneering the first investment-grade and publicly syndicated GPU-backed debt facilities.

The facility was highly novel because it used the actual AI graphics processing units (GPUs) as collateral, creating a precedent for asset-backed
financing in the AI sector.

Technology Policy:
Served as a Senior Advisor on Digital Economy to an African sub-national, helping shape policy to advance digital transformation across government and all sectors of the Economy. During that time, I worked with the leading regulatory agencies across Nigeria and Africa, including NCC, NITDA, and NASENI and gained useful insights into how digtal sector is regulated across Nigeria and the rest of the continent. Advised on the federal government’s $650 million iDICE fund for investment in the digital and creative sectors of the economy.

Curated and screened over 7,000 AI and digital startups for investment. Helped create a thriving innovation ecosystems across the country. Worked with NITDA to establish a regional headquarters in the South East and with NCC to operationalize dormant assets in the region.

Software Engineer:
Engineering leader with over 20 years of experience across infrastructure and applications, garnered at some of the leading technology firms in the world including Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and others. Worked on some of the consequential software projects of this generation, including Operating Systems, AI systems, Autonomous Driving Software, Cybersecurity, and Computer System Architecture. Engineered and delivered over 3 GW of IT and GPU load for hyperscalers including Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure Platforms.

Technical Expertise:
AI infrastructure including AI Data Centers, AI factories, GPU Compute, Storage, Networking and Software-Defined Infrastructure. AI applications including Machine Learning Theory, Reinforcement Learning, LLMs, Transformer Architectures and Large-Scale AI systems in the virtual and physical worlds. Algorithms and Data Structures. Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, Randomized Algorithms.

Education:
MMath in Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge
University and BEng with First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering from the University of Nigeria.