Lanre Ogundipe

CEO

PaveHq Limited

Lanre Ogundipe is the Co founder and CEO of Pave. A Higher Education digital ecosystem platform empowering global education and career mobility for Africans He is the also the Founder of Imperial EdTech (Formerly know as Imperial Educational services) an Education, Technology and workforce development firm founded in 2010 that provides technology infrastructure to Schools, Government and Businesses. He has spent his years driving the Inclusion of Technology and Career development in the Education Sector in order to increase the access, delivery and distribution of learning. Mr Ogundipe is a technology enthusiast/ entrepreneur who has championed various initiatives aimed at driving Capacity and Workforce development, STEAM education, skill acquisition, employability and Industrialization in Africa to spur economic growth and Nation building. He is the managing Partner and Board member of the Global Air Drone Academy - A Drone training and development academy that uses drones for STEAM education and teaches adults and youth about drone development and safety flight regulations. He also sits on the Nucleus board of STEAM UP Lagos - An initiative set up by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to drive STEM/STEAM education in Lagos State under the auspices of the Senior special assistant to the Governor on STEM Education. Seeing the non existence of local manufacturing, the low quality of locally developed hardware technology and the lack of adequate skills in that space, he laughed Revrica (REV - which means to Accelerate, and RICA - Taken from the word Africa) an OEM licensed company set up to assemble Educational learning devices such as laptops, tablets, smartphones etc for Primary, secondary, HigherEd, Future of work and lifelong learning.