Olushola Abiodun Akinyemi

Olushola Akinyemi is a social entrepreneur with over seven years of experience in human capital development. He works with bourgeoning entrepreneurs by providing strategic support to help their ideas thrive and come alive. Shola guides them to explore, incubate, nurture, grow and translate raw business ideas into veritable business ventures that power the Nigerian and African economy. Olushola Abiodun Akinyemi is the co-founder of Business Connect Africa, a nonprofit business support organization that works to help businesses grow and transform the African economy. Olushola Abiodun Akinyemi holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, Olushola plans to focus more on setting up and facilitating business connect schools in different African cities with a long term plan of building the African 500 Corporation, a strategic agenda to nurture and grow African SMEs into a fortune 500 prototype so that they can readily function and compete on the global scale.