Akinola Fanu

Akinola Fanu has extensive experience in project and program management in the aerospace and defense industry. Akinola started their career as a project/program engineer in Transco Products, Inc. in 1980 and later moved to Boeing (formerly Hughes Aircraft Company) where they worked as a senior staff engineer/senior program manager. Subsequently, they worked as a senior program manager for COM DEV USA, LLC, and as the space engineering team lead/senior project manager for Dow-Key Microwave. In 2016, they worked as an independent contractor for Ducommun Incorporated, where they managed a new product line for High-Rel switch matrix. Akinola later joined Mercury Systems as a program manager and finally, joined Space Vector Corporation as a program manager in 2019.

Akinola Fanu attended the University of Southern California from 1976 to 1979, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Engineering. In 2004, Akinola completed the Industrial Relations Center - Project Management Certificate Program at the California Institute of Technology.