Yemi Keri is a passionate advocate for women in Technology and entrepreneurship. She mentors several startups and serves on the board of several organisations, including the Lagos Angel Network and the Enterprise Development Centre of Pan-Atlantic University. She is the founder of Heckerbella Limited, a technology business transformation company delivering effective, reliable and sustainable information technology solutions to businesses in Africa.
Yemi’s career spans over 23 years, with a focus on Information Technology and Telecommunications. She has held high-level management positions for 12 of those 23 years. She was the director and regional manager of West Africa for SAP Africa. She was the pioneer Managing Director and chief executive officer at the Edo State Directorate of Information Communications and Technology agency.
Yemi Keri is the co-founder of Rising Tide Africa, a Women’s movement initiated with a vision to increase women’s participation in angel investing, an asset class and promote education, cross-border investing and investor-mentoring across Africa. She was the founding member of IDC West Africa CIO Technology Advisory Council in May 2015 and was honoured as Nigeria’s most outstanding public sector CIO at the ICT Centenary Awards 2014.
She is also the co-founder of the iAspire Data Science Fellowship Program, an iDAF’s flagship program that aims to train and prepare bright Nigerian minds to use Artificial Intelligence and advanced machine and deep learning concepts to tackle business and social problems.
Yemi is a Board member of First City Monument Bank Ltd (FCMB), Investment One Financial Services, Nigerian-German Chamber of Commerce, Beyond Credit Limited, and Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre. She is also involved in various advisory roles for organisations such as Ingressive LLC, GAIA Women Club, The Assembly Hub, and SabiHub.
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