Edmund Olotu has founded and financed several Technology companies in Nigeria and the USA. US Companies include Novira Therapeutics Inc.-a novel antiviral drug discovery company sold to Johnson and Johnson for $600M in 2015 and Generate4Schools LLC –a first data payment partner using merchant processing fees to fund school projects in the USA.

His payment application development company, TechAdvance Ltd. founded in 2009, develops collections, aggregation and transaction data analytics platforms for multiple industry verticals including but not limited to utilities, transportation and IGR – processing payments for electricity companies across Nigeria. Amongst his other ventures, is SuperGeeks Ltd.- a personal consumer electronics after-sales service and gadget insurance company featured on CNN as one of Nigeria’s most innovative start-ups, Reydious Ltd, an agric technology R&D company and West Africa Mining Corporation operating gold and diamond mining acreages in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Edmund has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering with Business from Manchester University, a Master’s degree in Science and Technology entrepreneurship with distinction from Nottingham University Business School and a Master’s degree in Management Finance and Control from Harvard University.