Favorite Quote – “What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.” – Spencer Johnson

Favorite Quote – Life is all about the evolution

Favorite Quote – “We are born not all at once but by bits- Mary Antin”

Favorite Quote – “Do one thing every day that scares you.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience covers consulting, developing and implementing technology strategies for businesses, product development, business development and the design and implementation of business growth strategy.

Morayo is an Angel Investor, advisor and mentor to a number of technology start-ups in Nigeria.

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” — Charles Mingus

His payment application development company, TechAdvance Ltd. founded in 2009, develops collections, aggregation and transaction data analytics platforms for multiple industry verticals including but not limited to utilities, transportation and IGR – processing payments for electricity companies across Nigeria. Amongst his other ventures, is SuperGeeks Ltd.- a personal consumer electronics after-sales service and gadget insurance company featured on CNN as one of Nigeria’s most innovative start-ups, Reydious Ltd, an agric technology R&D company and West Africa Mining Corporation operating gold and diamond mining acreages in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Edmund has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering with Business from Manchester University, a Master’s degree in Science and Technology entrepreneurship with distinction from Nottingham University Business School and a Master’s degree in Management Finance and Control from Harvard University.

Riana’s development and innovation strategies have been pivotal to some of the most innovative food and agriculture startups in the world. She also works with Fortune 500 companies on new innovations. Her accomplishments have been featured on CNBC, Forbes, USA Today, Wired, TechCrunch, INC, Entrepreneur Magazine, Crain’s “20 in their 20s”, among others. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before pursuing a Masters at Northwestern University. A native of the Chicago area, Riana is a techie, a global fruit explorer, and mentor.

Through BAU R&D, he founded Beni American University and BAU Executive Education. His investments in African universities are guided on the principle of transforming learning and institutions that will grow future leaders of the continent. BAU R&D has completed investments in two Nigerian traditional universities and is poised to grow its portfolio of institutions across Africa.

As an advisor to a number of young entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, he has successfully helped to develop businesses that are providing real solutions to problems being faced daily on the continent across a broad range of sectors including: Power, Education, Civil Service, Infrastructure Development and Manufacturing. His work has been profiled by the World Bank and on CNN, Forbes, Harvard Business School, Forum for Growth and Innovation, The Huffington Post and more. His work has been used as a research focus and has been cited in articles, journals and other academic publications.

He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the American University of Cyprus with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Information Systems.