Opeyemi Awoyemi

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Fast Forward is a venture studio and early-stage fund focused on technology-enabled companies led by exceptional African entrepreneurs.

• Achieved $7.5m in AUM building on own capital with portfolio companies worth over USD$150m.
• Responsible for fund strategy, deal flow sourcing, and investment committee leadership.

Whogohost is a web hosting and domain registration business primarily operating in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.

• Founded the company out of a college dorm room at age 20 and was the only employee for the first 4 years.
• Implemented succession plan with employee No. 3 becoming CEO, new CEO since has grown the business 20x to ARR of >$2m and 100k+ customers.
• Successfully brought in a private equity fund to facilitate next wave of growth for the organization.

Indeed is the world’s largest job site with over 100m users and $3B+ in annual revenues.

• Responsible for the growth of a $100m annual revenue business unit (AltJobs).
• Achieved 700% growth in key metrics on a project and +2000% increase on a new customer acquisition channel.

Responsible for driving technical vision, product strategy, and product roadmaps of all Jobseeker APIs.

• Led APIs development to serve internal, partner, and developer ecosystem use cases for Indeed.

Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) is the biggest player in classifieds marketplaces in Africa.

• Owned commercial and product performance responsibility for all the job sites.
• Utilizing user feedback, led the product and engineering teams to launch a 5-day candidate shortlisting service across all the businesses using AI which boosted job listing revenue by 60%.

Leading SaaS job search and career portal in Sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa.

• Led the transition from growth to monetization phase.
• Grew user base from 200k to 1.2m (600% increase) within the period.

Providing office hours and business advisory to Full-time MIT MBA Students/Legatum Fellows.

A distinguished fellowship for accomplished entrepreneurs who have previously scaled businesses across Africa.