Funke Opeke

Funke Opeke
Nationality Nigerian
Occupation
  • Electrical
  • engineer
  • technology
Organization Main One Cable
Title Chief executive officer

Funke Opeke is a Nigerian electrical engineer, founder of Main Street Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of Main One Cable Company, a communications services company based in Lagos State, south-western Nigeria.

Education and early life

She obtained a Bachelor and master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University and Columbia University respectively.[1] After she graduated from Columbia University, she followed with a career in ICT in the United States as an executive director with the wholesale division of Verizon Communications in New York City. In 2005, she joined MTN Nigeria as chief technical officer (CTO). She served as adviser at Transcorp and chief operating officer of NITEL for a brief period.[2][3][4][5]

MainOne Cable

After moving back to Nigeria, Funke Opeke started MainOne in 2008 when she noticed the low internet connectivity in Nigeria. MainOne is West Africa’s leading communications services and network solutions provider. The company built West Africa’s first privately owned, open access 7,000-kilometer undersea high capacity cable submarine stretching from Portugal to South Africa with landings along the route in Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria.[6]

References

  1. ↑ The Editor. "Executive Profile". Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Femke, Van Zeiji (24 September 2015). "Funke Opeke: Nigeria's cyber revolutionary". Aljazeera. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Shittu, Ndukwe, Ovia, others to enter DS-IHUB hall of fame". Vanguard Newspapers. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Emma, Okonji (11 August 2016). "Govt Urged to Leverage Power of Broadband Technology". This Day Live Newspapers. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Olubunmi, Adeniyi (8 October 2012). "Mainone becomes first west African carrier to connect London internet exchange point". Technology Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  6. ↑ ""Raising money is the most difficult thing I ever did as an entrepreneur" -- Funke Opeke, MainOne CEO". techpoint.ng. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
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