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Learn Africa Plc

Profile of Directors

Mr Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Non-Executive Director
(Appointed 13 August 2020)

r Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the General Partner and Co-founder of Future Africa, a platform that
Mprovides capital, coaching and community for mission-driven innovators, building an African
future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
Prior to co-founding Future Africa, he served as the Deputy Director-General for the Oby
Ezekwesili 2019 Presidential Campaign. He also helped to build Andela and Flutterwave, two of
Africa’s largest and fastest-growing technology companies backed by global investors.
Mr Aboyeji holds a Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo, and he
is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He also sits on the Board of several corporate and
non-profit organisations and advises several national and sub-national governments across Africa on
how to support high growth innovation-driven enterprises in their domains.

Mr Gbolagunte Aiyedun

Publishing Director
(Appointed 6 December 2012)

r Gbolagunte Aiyedun graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University in 1988 with a BSc
M(Honours) degree in Biochemistry. He joined Longman Nigeria Plc in 1999 as a Publisher
(Science and Technical), having worked with two other publishing companies from 1992. He rose to
the position of Senior Publisher in 2002, Deputy Publishing Manager in 2008 and Assistant General
Manager (Publishing) in 2009.
He was appointed Publishing Director in 2012. He has attended many local and overseas training
programmes, including the Strategic Publishing Management Course at the Publishing Training
Centre, Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom.

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