Tobi Oke

Tobi Oke is the lead partner at V8 Ventures; a business incubator that combines co-working space facilities, capacity development services and venture funding to enable technology startups achieve rapid commercial growth.

Before starting V8 Ventures, he was the Head of Intel Capital Africa and has over 15 years’ experience in investing and partnering with investors across various markets especially Africa. Before Intel Capital, Tobi worked as an Associate Director for Standard Chartered Private Equity and as an associate for HSBC Principal Investments covering the African continent with deals executed across West, East and Southern Africa.

He has also worked in the technology practice at Booz & Company advising companies in Europe on transformational technology projects and was a founding member of the engineering team at Motorola that delivered the first generation of Telematics products globally. Tobi holds a Master of Engineering degree in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College, London and a MBA from the London Business School.