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About two decades experience as a cross-functional leader, management strategist, corporate transformation expert, program director, and digital innovation specialist with a strong track record of transformative business and socio-economic impacts across the African continent. Dayo works with Heifer International, as the Director, Youth & Technological Innovation, Africa Region. Established in 1944, Heifer International is a nonprofit corporation formed under the laws of the State of Arkansas, United States of America, working internationally in 21 countries. Heifer’s mission is to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way by supporting and investing alongside local farmers and their communities. In his role as Director, Youth & Innovation, Africa Region, he is leading external partnerships and harnessing digital innovation to leapfrog agriculture across African countries – addressing poverty and hunger, and creating jobs for the youth at scale. Heifer is in Senegal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia. He is passionate about moving Africa to a dominant digital economy.He has been leading the design and integration of several digital technological innovation programs that will be supporting millions of smallholder farmers, and creating jobs at scale for young Africans across several countries. He has also led Heifer’s work in Africa through partnerships and participation in continental forums such as AGRA’s (Alliance for Green Revolution Africa) AGRF, the world premier forum for Africa’s agriculture. Before joining Heifer International, he was the Head of Transformation & Strategy at Africa’s Global Bank - the United Bank for Africa (UBA), where he program-managed several digital technological innovations and business improvements in UBA subsidiaries across 20 African countries.Before joining UBA, he was Special Advisor, Strategy & Business Development at Diamond Bank PLC – where, working with the executive team, he supervised Nationwide business development activities and provided strategic business intelligence to the Bank. Before joining the executive suite at Diamond Bank, Dayo was the Strategy & Transformation Lead where he led key digital transformation programs and disruptive financial inclusion programs for the Bank among others. While in Diamond Bank, he worked closely with global management/strategy consultants such as Oliver Wyman, Roland Berger, Bain, among others.He has a first degree in Engineering Physics, and an MBA in Finance. He has been featured as a subject expert on CNBC Africa.
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Director, Youth And Tech Innovation, Africa (Building External Partnerships)Heifer InternationalNigeria
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Director, Youth & Tech Innovation, Africa (Building External Partnerships)Heifer International Jan 2021 - PresentAGRA and AGRF – led the design and implementation of Heifer’s partnership with Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa as well as Heifer’s sponsorship at the annual AGRF to build on Heifer’s position as a thought leader for youth and innovation development and agricultural transformation in Africa working with smallholder farmers. With a focus on bringing the dynamism of youth entrepreneurship to Africa’s agriculture while strengthening the ecosystem that supports agripreneurship.MIT Solve – led the design and implementation of Heifer’s partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Solve in line with Heifer’s objective to unlock and deepen technological innovation that supports smallholder farming in Africa and create youth jobs for the future. Solve is an initiative of MIT with a mission to solve world challenges. Through open innovation Challenges (like Heifer’s AYuTe Africa Challenge), Solve finds incredible tech-based social entrepreneurs around the world and supports them to drive lasting transformational impact. Mastercard – led the design and implementation of Heifer’s partnership with Mastercard’s Community Pass technology to provide digital identity and visibility and drive access to finance for smallholder farmers. Mastercard’s Community Pass is designed to address infrastructure challenges that arise in digitizing rural communities, such as unreliable connectivity, low smartphone ownership, and lack of consistent identification or credentials, and through the partnership, Heifer will focus on advancing digitalization and financial inclusion among smallholder farmers in Africa.
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Director, Youth & Tech Innovation, Africa (Tech. Integration & Job Creation, 2021)Heifer International Jan 2021 - PresentYouth & Technological Innovation Competition (AYuTe) - In 2021, I led the design and launch AYuTe Africa Challenge fund. The AYuTe Africa Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash grants to promising young agritech innovators and firms across the continent — professionals who are using technology to reimagine farming and food production in Africa.Tractor Sharing Services – there is a huge mechanization gap in Africa, and I led the design and integration of Hello Tractor’s tractor sharing solution into several countries to help smallholder farmers to farm faster at reduced costs.Climate Smart Solutions - cold storage, weather information services – reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing agro-climate information and advisory services have been identified as veritable strategies for climate mitigation and adaptation respectively. In this regard, I led the design and integration of Cold Hubs solar powered cold storage service and Ignitia’s climate information services to provide smallholder farmers with affordable cold storage to minimize post-harvest losses and to smallholder farmers with timely weather information to build resilience against climate change.Agri InsurTech Services – the risks that small and medium scale farmers are exposed to is continuing to grow and is becoming more diverse. Systemic events such as droughts, floods, locust infestations and new pests are diseases are becoming increasingly frequent while growing in scale. PULA is an insurtech service provider and I led the design and integration of PULA’s insurance to cover losses experienced by smallholder farmers in Africa.Digital Extension Services - the last pandemic has proven that traditional extension services are no longer sustainable I led the design and integration of KUZA Biashara’s digital extension services model for the delivery of training modules and packages cost-effectively and sustainably.
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Director, Youth & Tech Innovation, Africa (Tech. Integration & Job Creation, 2022)Heifer International Jan 2022 - PresentEcosystem Aggregation Services | Access to Finance – providing smallholder farmers with the digital identity and footprint they need to be connected to ecosystem service providers such as access to finance; access to storage; access to mechanization; access to input supplies; insurance; off-taking services etc is critical for food systems security; therefore, I led the design and integration of Thrive Agric’s aggregation services to drive financial inclusion and ecosystem integration required for smallholder farmers to access ecosystem agricultural services to improve their productivity and income.Digital Extension Services - I am leading the integration of DigiCow’s extension services model in East Africa. Digicow’s core business is the development of mobile phone technologies for the agricultural sector to enable the agricultural value chain increase productivity and profitability through data driven decisions.Access to Information Services – I am leading the integration of access to information services through Brastorne’s innovation providing digital market information services to smallholder farmers who do not have smart phones and cannot access the internet. Brastorne is enabling the rural poor in Africa to access digital economy – access to market, information etc – on their feature phones.Farmer Co-operative Digitalization Services | Access to Finance Services – leveraging Mastercard’s Community Pass, I am leading the integration of Digital Mobile Africa’s solution to digitize smallholder farmer identity and transaction records required for access to finance and other ecosystem aggregation services.
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Board MemberHeifer International Kenya Jun 2023 - Present -
Head,Transformation & StrategyUba Group Jul 2019 - Jan 2021Led the successful execution of the Bank’s transformation program to improve internal operational efficiency, and effectiveness of the organization across 20 countries in Africa. Coordinating, tracking, and monitoring the execution on over 200 initiatives across 11 workstreams as well as several other tactical initiatives emanating from pain-points in the Bank.Digital technological innovations in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Congo Brazzaville, Congo DRC, Cote d'lvoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Tchad, Uganda and Zambia. Re-engineering of critical functions in the Bank: Operations, Risk, Digital & Payments, Retail, Customer Services & Telemarketing, IT, Corporate Services, HR, Legal, Finance, Treasury, Audit. -
Special Advisor Business Development & StrategyDiamond Bank Plc Aug 2016 - Apr 2019Led business development and marketing teams to deepen existing relationship with clients through frequent management calls as well as prompt and exceptional delivery to service request; liaised with the Central Bank of Nigeria and other regulators; provided business and strategy advisory to the executive management team; developed external partnerships with relevant institutions to best leverage the Bank’s resources for the attainment of the Bank’s business goals.Leveraged industry data analytics to provide insights and value to our clients; conducted regular environmental, market, and competitive assessments to determine the size and scope of opportunities across all the regions in the Bank; tracked daily business activities, and supported to finalize deals; represented the Bank at external events and TV interviews; steered various enterprise project committees. -
Strategy & Business TransformationDiamond Bank Plc Jan 2006 - Aug 2016Lagos, NigeriaProgram Management: led bankwide business transformation and process re-engineering program as well as several other enterprise project ensuring best risk management practices; developed integrated program management plans to ensure that objectives are achieved in the most effective and efficient manner; executed business improvement initiatives; implemented automation of manual and semi-manual service offerings.Strategy & Advisory: provided leadership to conduct and circulate research and strategic analysis on economic developments and socio-economic opportunities or threats; conducted detailed environmental, market and competitive assessments to grow the Bank’s balance sheet; supported business and product development to ensure alignment with the Bank’s corporate objectives.Financial Inclusion: led the design and execution of novel financial inclusion initiatives in the Bank, key among which was a partnership between the Bank and MTN Nigeria to launch a product called diamond yello with minimal KYC requirements. Diamond Yello is a hybrid proposition combining both financial and telecommunication services offering a loyalty scheme that customers exclusively on the MTN network can conveniently subscribe to from the convenience of their mobile devices.
Dayo Aduroja Education Details
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Bsc Engineering Physics
Frequently Asked Questions about Dayo Aduroja
What company does Dayo Aduroja work for?
Dayo Aduroja works for Heifer International
What is Dayo Aduroja's role at the current company?
Dayo Aduroja's current role is Director, Youth and Tech Innovation, Africa (Building External Partnerships).
What schools did Dayo Aduroja attend?
Dayo Aduroja attended The Wharton School, Stanford University Graduate School Of Business, Yale School Of Management, University Of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University.
Who are Dayo Aduroja's colleagues?
Dayo Aduroja's colleagues are Kim Dandurand, Maulana Phillimon, Amanda Keast, Mahjabeen Iqbal, Daina Rodriguez, Clemente Roa, David Adinda.
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