Bunmi Otegbade

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Bunmi Otegbade

Senior Change Leader of Global Youth Years & North America Partnership Building - Youth Years

Bunmi is building a workforce for the future in Africa. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, he co-founded Generation Enterprise, a non-profit reducing unemployment and poverty by providing transferrable skills and career pathways for youth through an AI-enabled skills education tool in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya. He helps advance Government participation in the African technology ecosystem through AVDD.gov.ng, which funded over 80 impressive civic tech startups, and featured Mark Zuckerberg. He is an investor in the food, healthcare, and energy startups and is a policy advisor to Lagos State Government in T.V.E.T.

Before his entrepreneurial pursuits, Bunmi was a management consultant advising Africa’s most prominent manufacturing, telecoms, and banking companies across Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and South Africa. Upon graduation, he plans to continue working in the development space, particularly in the deployment of social and public investments. He graduated from Baylor University in 2007 with a B.S.E. in Electrical & Computer Engineering.