Category: Entrepreneurship
Olalekan Olude is the Chief Operating Officer of Jobberman, a company he co-founded. Today, Jobberman is the biggest job site in Sub-Saharan Africa by revenue, audience and customers. He oversees and provides directions for the company’s operational and monetization initiatives. He was responsible for growing the revenues of Jobberman from zero to millions of dollars on an annual basis.
Olalekan is responsible for the monetization efforts of the company in new markets of Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Angola, and Zimbabwe. He helped to orchestrate the consolidation of the company into a holding company, One Africa Media, the largest digital classifieds company in Africa with a market capitalization of ~US$160m.
Lekan has domain expertise in running and scaling organizations across geographies with focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He has over 7 years of Sales and Operational management experience. He had a 3-year stint with Goldman Sachs & Co, London where he worked with a diverse team of world-class technologists across Europe and North America.
Lekan have also attended various certificate courses at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and at the Lagos Business School.
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