Founder · Advisor · Lagos
I spent two decades in quantitative risk and data systems — across global financial institutions and technology companies, including Barclays, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Citigroup — watching how organisations build lasting competitive advantage through better infrastructure and cleaner data.
I returned to Lagos in 2025 with a specific conviction: African businesses deserve the same operational foundations, and AI creates a genuine window to build them now. That work runs through Ahjayee Consulting. The advisory and speaking work lives here.
Background
Quantitative risk taught me something important: how to make high-stakes decisions from imperfect, incomplete data. You build models not because the data is clean, but precisely because it is not — and the discipline is knowing what the model can and cannot tell you.
That thinking transfers directly to what African businesses face with AI today. They are sitting on years of transaction records, customer data, and operational history — most of it unstructured, much of it underused. The question is not whether the data is perfect. The question is what can be built on what already exists.
Starting Ahjayee Consulting in 2024 was not a career change. It was the application of two decades of pattern recognition to a market that has been waiting for exactly this approach. The advisory work I do with boards and leadership teams draws on the same thinking.
Independent perspective on product, technology, data, and AI decisions at board level. Most relevant where digital infrastructure is strategically important to the business model.
Senior product and technology leadership without the commitment of a full-time executive hire. Useful when the business needs judgement, structure, and decision support close to the work.
Talks and panels on AI adoption for African businesses, the foundations businesses need before AI becomes useful, and what twenty years of quantitative risk work reveals about building on imperfect data.
Implementation and delivery work runs through Ahjayee Consulting — where I work with established African businesses on AI implementation, starting with the Business Foundation Audit and working through automation, analytics, and intelligent systems built on their own data.
This site is for the advisory, board, and speaking work. The two are complementary — the consulting practice keeps the advisory grounded in what is actually being built.
Published thinking
Board roles, advisory, speaking, or fractional CxO work. Send a brief outline and I will tell you whether I am the right fit.