Engr Lanre Ajayi (Founding Board Member/fmr. President ATCON)
Engr. Lanre Ajayi had his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was trained on Data communications at GPT, Coventry, UK, as a British Council scholar and was further trained on Internet technologies and networking in Canada and Switzerland on the scholarships of the Internet Society (ISOC).
He worked for Nigeria Telecommunications Ltd (NITEL) for 11 years. While at the NITEL R&D department, he had a number of designs to his credit, one of which became the first patent held by NITEL. He has won several awards for his Research and Development activities.
As a consultant to a Rockefeller foundation-funded organization in Nigeria, FEDEN, he set up the first Internet host in Nigeria in February 1992 thereby privileged to herald the Internet into Nigeria. He established Pinet Informatics in May 1995 to become the first Internet Service Provider in Nigeria.
Lanre Ajayi, former President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), is a co-founder and a former President of the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), a Non-Profit organization that pioneered the promotion of the Internet in Nigeria. Engr Ajayi has served as the Vice-President of the ISP Association of Nigeria (ISPAN) and as the Vice-Chairman of the African ISP Association (AfrISPA). He served on the council of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) as the Chairman of the Research and Statistics Committee and was the Chairman of ISPAN committee on Internet Exchange Point which led to the establishment of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN).
Lanre Ajayi, a foundation member of Africa Network Information Centre (AfriNIC), served as a council member at the Los Angeles based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body managing the Internet critical resources, and also served as a member of the Expert Working Group (EWG) in ICANN.
