Ayodeji Adewumi

Ayodeji Adewunmi is the CEO & Co-Founder of Jobberman, the largest online recruitment platform in Sub-Saharan Africa with footprints across East, and West Africa. Ayodeji played a pivotal role in building the largest online classifieds group in Africa, Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) with backing from a stellar group of institutional investors like Ringer AG, Tiger Global, and SEEK. Through his work, Ayodeji has directly and indirectly impacted over 10 million people.

Ayodeji was selected to the Choiseul 100 Africa 2017 - the list identifies and ranks young African leaders of 40 years old and under 40, who will play a major role in the continent’s economic development in the near future.

Ayodeji is a compulsive entrepreneur and effective Internet executive who is widely regarded as one of the top Internet entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. He sits on the Selection Committee of The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, a $US100M fund to fuel the dreams of 10,000 entrepreneurs across Africa. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30, Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2013 and named a New African Magazine 50 African trailblazers under the age of 50, 2013.

He had a stint at Goldman Sachs & Co in London. He holds a Bachelors of Medicine, Bachelors of Surgery (M.B. Ch.B) from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and completed an executive education program at Harvard Business School on Building Businesses in Emerging Markets (BBEM). Ayodeji is a 2016 Eisenhower Fellow, 2015 ALIWA Fellow, 2015 Archbishop Tutu Fellow, and an active member of YPO, Lagos Chapter.