Arinola Akinyemi
Chief Executive officer, Omar Ventures Limited and DigiSphere Investment Limited and also Founder and President, DigiSphere Centre for Digital Creativity, (DCDC) is a quiet achiever; calm and focused, highly motivated and enthusiastic.She possesses a unique blend of visionary leadership and executive business savvy with competencies to spearhead strategic planning and bottom line results. A creative, dynamic and accomplished entrepreneur with firm believes in qualitative leadership and teamwork to design and execute solutions thereby creating value, is committed to the highest levels of professional and personal excellence. She is a frontline advocator of ICT for development and economic growth.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Lagos State University
She serves on the board of several ICT and Non- ICT organizations within and outside Nigeria.
She has over 20years experience in the IT industry and a strong track record in the strategic and operational management and provision of value added solutions to achieve set goals and objectives. Her areas of expertise include project management, outsourcing, network design & deployment, capacity building, resource management,renewable energy deployment, Data Security & Storage Solutions and IT Policy Advocacy.
She was a board member of the prestigious Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA) where she also served as the Chair, Youth Affairs Committee. She is a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) Business Constituency. She is the immediate past National Treasurer and currently a board member of Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (ITAN) and was at several occasions one of Nigeria’s business representatives at World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), Internet Governance Forum, Consumers Electronics Show, USA, Korea Electronic Show, Seoul, South Korea to mention a few.
