Chairman of Hotspot Group

Mr. Okezie Ofoegbu

Okezie is a Principal Partner at Libera Partners, a Washington DC based Business Development and Strategic Advisory Firm.
Prior to launching Libera, he was a Vice President at Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), where he was part of a team that invested and managed $1.6 billion of private equity funds in emerging markets with a focus on Africa. While at ECP, he co-led and participated in the development and post-investment management of over $200 million portfolio covering Telecommunications, Financial Services, Logistics, Chemical/Industrial Companies, Oil and Gas and Agro-Allied businesses.

Prior to ECP, he was with Exxon Mobil’s Upstream Operations in Nigeria. Okezie holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of  Pennsylvania and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Nigeria.

Founder | CEO

Engr. Morenikeji Aniye(FNSE, FNIEEE)

ENGR. MORENIKEJI AYODELE ANIYE (FNSE, FNIEEE, FIMC, FCIPMN)
Engineer Morenikeji Aniye (FNSE) a fellow Nigerian institute of engineer, fellow Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer, fellow Nigerian Institute of Management Consultants and fellow chartered institute of project managers of Nigeria is the Founder/CEO of Hotspot Network Limited. He is a dynamic and talented entrepreneur with many years of experience working at top management level in the major telecom service providers in Nigeria. Prior to setting up his firm, he was at one time the MD/CEO of Abuja Connect, and has worked as one of the pioneer RF planning and Optimisation Engineers, RF Technical Specialist with MTN in Nigeria and South Africa. He owns a first degree in Electrical Electronics Engineering from the University of Ilorin.
He has over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications including about 16 years in the design, implementation and quality management of commercial wireless networks at different stages of growth. Also, he has over 16 years emerging market experience in the highly dynamic Nigerian telecommunications market.

His key strengths include management of end to end wireless network solution planning and overall network quality management, resource optimisation, customer relationship management, business development, human capacity development and a high level of technology trend and commercial awareness.
Engineer Aniye’s immediate goals include employing technical expertise and overall technical and commercial work experience in making key contributions to development and actualisation of corporate competitive strategy.
Primarily a product of the public education system in Nigeria, he is passionate about the revitalisation and continued development of the education system in Nigeria. Specifically, he is committed to expanding access to affordable and high quality whole school improvement, teacher and administrator professional development programmes in the public and low fee paying private education sectors.
An entrepreneur at heart, Engineer Aniye, has a very good balance of technical awareness, management experience and a strong objective of making the organisation successful.
His area of expertise is telecommunications- and IT-organisations.
Engineer Aniye’s specialty is creating and developing new services, whether in a start-up or an established company, he also enjoys the art of conceptualisation, creation and always ensures that all the pieces, be they frontend or backend, function according to the agreed specifications and parameters. He also functions well in local organisations or when interfacing with teams across multiple sites.
His major achievements include, growing MTN Network in Abuja region from 3 base stations to 500 base stations before exiting the organisation in 2005 as the 1st RF engineer in northern Nigeria.
On secondment with MTN international (SA), year 2004 to assist with dual network rollout and new innovations at test centre Newlands, Johannesburg, SA, Engineer Aniye successfully handled the first radio network access swap out in MTN Nigeria (Northern Region) in 2005 and swapped out completely almost 200 base stations from Ericsson to Huawei .
He worked briefly as a director with Unicorn divine technologies ltd, closing deals valued at close to $1.5 million with 4G Technologies, SA/Zain Nigeria.
He worked with ZAIN Nigeria, now Airtel, between 2006 Jan- 2008 January; Radio Network Planning and Optimisation Manager, North Central Region, managing the radio network planning and optimisation activities for the region.
Engineer Aniye founded a company called Verreaux Technologies LTD in 2004 and successfully grew it from the scratch to an enviable position.
He also founded Hotspot Network Limited from the scratch, grew the asset base and successfully hit a turnover of 1 billion naira in 2014.
He personally believes that information technology, when applied skilfully and with purpose, is the answer to many of the challenges facing modern organisations today.
Till date, he is the Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Hotspot Network Limited. (Collocation and Infrastructure sharing company), reporting to the board.
Engineer Aniye provides leadership and oversight, has overall accountability for companies’ (ICT/Telecoms) managed service across the country. He articulates, review and implements companies’ corporate strategy, goal and objectives.
Engineer Aniye is a member, Project Management Institute; member, Nigeria Institute of Management; member, Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering; Fellow Nigeria Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (FNIEEE), Fellow Nigeria Society of Engineers (FNSE), Fellow Nigeria institute Of Management Consultant and a member, fellow chartered institute of project managers of Nigeria, Member Council of Registered Engineers (COREN).
Morenikeji Aniye has attended a number of capacity building and development programs in Asia, Africa, and Europe. He has acquired numerable skills ranging from Management, Technical and Leadership skills while at MTN. Engr. Morenikeji Aniye, hold a traditional title of Aare-Asiwaju from Ilogbo-Ekiti.
Engr. Morenikeji Aniye hail from Alamoye quarters from Igede-Ekiti, who and is married to Mrs ‘Bukola Aniye, has three lovely children namely Oluwadarasimi,Oluwademilade and Oluwadamitan Aniye.

Vice President / Executive Director

Mr. Charles Iyoha

Charles is the Vice President of Hotspot Network Limited. He has over 18 years experience in the Telecoms/ICT industry. He started his career at Mobile Telephone Ltd (MTEL), the mobile arm of the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) as a Junior Administrative Level.

He joined MTN Nigeria in 2001 where he worked in billing unit, finance, collections, marketing, and customer relations. He was also part of the startup team that helped start up MTN Iran, in Tehran, Iran.

Some of his achievements at MTN include group CEO award for Innovation, (part of the team that initiated BOGOF), Yello Star Award (Regional) and MTN Policy Award for leading team lead that started and completed the formulation of Policies, Processes and Procedure (PPPs) which is still in use today for
the Customer Relations Department.

Charles joined Verraux Technologies Limited as the Head of Marketing and Strategy and later appointed the Chief Operating Officer. He has since been responsible for end to end projects and operations of the Company and has oversight over marketing, strategy and public relations. He is a graduate of Political
Science and International Relations from the University of Abuja. He is an alumnus of the Senior Management Programme (SMP) of the Lagos Business School. He is also a Project Management Professional, a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and has several ICT certifications.

Chief Operating Officer /Executive Director

Mr. Adesola Soetan

Adesola is an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at Hotspot Network Limited. He has over a decade of experience as a project manager employing global Project Management standards including OUM, Prince2, Agile Sprint and PMP to deliver projects, majorly IT solutions for the educational, financial and telecommunications sector to public and private sector customers.

Adesola started his career at TARA Systems Ltd as Support Analysts and then moved on to head the IT Unit of Denham Management Ltd (now Chapel Hill Denham). He later joined Alteq ICT to manage the eServe program for the administration of former FCT Minister and now former Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai in Abuja.

He moved to Verraux Technologies as Head of Operations while managing the Nation-Wide Rollout of the School Access Program – a localized version of the Intel World Ahead initiative supported by the Universal Service Provision Fund with a seed funding of N1 billion, for one of the subsidiaries of Alteq (Technology Support Center); Verraux provided Satellite solutions for delivering online content to secondary schools.

He is a graduate of International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U) Ile-Ife Osun State Nigeria. He is an Oracle Certified Associate, holds an Executive Masters Certificate from the Project Management College UK, and a certified Lead Information Security Auditor from the British Standard Institute in Dubai.

Chief Finance Officer

Mr. Korede Ologun

Korede is the Chief Financial Officer at Hospot Group Limited. He is responsible for the overall finance function. He is an experienced finance professional who started his career in the corporate finance and securities trading practice of GTI Group.

Sequel to his stint at GTI Group, Korede joined the investment banking team of PanAfrican Capital Limited (now PAC Capital Limited) to work on fund raising and M&A transactions summing up to circa $400million in deal value across Africa.

In his term at PAC Capital Limited, Korede worked as Team Lead, Equity Capital Market & Advisory where he spearheaded capital markets and M&A transactions with cumulative transaction value of over $30 He is a masters graduate of Finance & Economics from West Texas A&M University, USA. He has also completed courses at Harvard Business School, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania.

Company Secretary & Director of Legal Services

Mr. Adebanji Dada

Adebanji is the Chief Legal Officer at Hotspot Network Limited. He is a legal practitioner and one of the founding Partners at
Greenbridge Partners coordinating Corporate Governance, Foreign Investment and Alternative to Dispute Resolution (ADR) areas of practice.

He has served on different corporate boards, both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in the United States and Nigeria. At various times, Adebanji has worked with law firms in the United States of America and Nigeria.

He obtained LL.B, LL.M and MBA degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, U.S.A. and Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, United Kingdom, respectively.

Chief Technical Officer

Mr. Kefas Obinna Obuezue. A

Kefas is the Chief Technical Officer at Hotspot Network Limited. 17 years’ experience in ICT and Project Management of different capacity and over 15 Certifications in Telecommunication Technology

Career Summary

Telecom/ICT Consultant, Disaster/ Process Recovery SME & Principal Business Executive

• Operations (active/passive infra) and project management executive accomplished at aligning people, processes and technology with business objectives in order to maximize ROI by driving increased productivity, revenue growth and stringent cost management.
• Domestic and international experience in initiating, planning, implementing and managing complex projects and operations in telecommunications, process optimization and information technology.
• Demonstrated talent for recruiting and leading multi-location, multi-national and multi-disciplinary teams of over 400 professional direct and indirect employees.

Have worked in 4 Multinational companies in Nigeria ( MTN, ZAIN , CELTEL, ERICSSON, AIRTEL) and have worked also outside Nigeria ( Mobily Telecoms – Saudi Arabia) aside my numerous training and certification in over 10 countries including Huawei China, Ericsson Sweden-Stockholm , Ericsson South Africa, Ericsson Spain, Holland etc ,

• 17 years’ experience in ICT and Project Management of different capacity
• 15 Certifications in the Telecommunication Technology.

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Educational Background

1)MBA – Liverpool University United Kingdom (InView)

2)B.Eng.,(2¹ ) Electrical Electronic Eng. Major in Computer Electronics, Dec 2000

Federal University Of Technology Owerri, Imo State Nigeria

3) OND, Computer Science, June 1994

Institute of Management and Technology Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria

Professional Experience

Gnet Consulting International

Principal Partner / Managing Consultant                                           Dec 2016 till Date

• Design, implementation and Execution of the Business Case
• Design of Wifi Network ( Both Passive & Active Infra) for Higher Institutions in Nigeria
• CAPEX and OPEX management and optimization of the business development initiatives
• African Support team to the introduction of Geobjects Software tool for Carbon Simulation, Carbon Emission and Trading to Nigerian Government.
• African Support team to the introduction of  BVILLA China   new housing and building technology to Nigerian market for affordable living.
• Lead Principal Partner to the introduction of Smart Power Solution – Hybrid Cube by HCI ENERGY USA to Nigerian Tower Companies
• Lead Principal Partner for the International inbound call project by Opertech Spain to Nigerian Telecommunication Sector.

Executive Director - Investment and Funding

Mr. Olumide Faleke

Olumide is a Director of Investment and Funding at Hotspot Network Limited. He is a development and corporate communications specialist with unique mix of experiences in health, education, agriculture and telecommunications within the non-profit, for-profit and social business sectors. Olumide is passionate about new business development, resource mobilization, fund raising and accountability.

He has served in different capacities, with local and international work exposures leading among others, strategic communications and resource mobilization initiatives with Malaria Consortium, Marie Stopes International, Family Health International (FHI360), Society for Family Health, John Snow Incorporated,
Girl Hub International, Helen Keller International, IPAC International and HotSpot Network Limited among others. Olumide has an undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Journalism, Mass Communication and Public/Environmental Health, respectively. He has completed the Global Health Delivery modules at the Harvard University.

Director of Projects

Mr. Olatubosun Abiola

Olatubosun is a Director of Projects at Hotspot Network Limited. He has over 10 years experience in business operations, project administration and delivery especially in the ICT environment with knowledge of negotiation and conflict resolution.Prior to Hotspot Network Limited, he worked as Head of Operations and Business Development Manager in notable companies in the ICT sector. Olatubosun has managed and executed projects in excess of $10 million for ICT infrastructure deployment, broadband connectivity and change management in the Nigerian ICT industry for both private and public institutions within the last decade.

He is an expert negotiator with critical problem-solving skills gathered from years of on the job experience. He holds a B.Sc. degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Babcock University, Ilishan- Remo, Ogun State and has attended several leadership and capacity building workshops in his professional niche.

Chief Enterprise Officer

Mr. Mahmoud Cigari

Mahmoud is the Chief Enterprise Officer at Hotspot Network Limited. He possesses a cumulative 7 years working experience in Telecom, IT, Renewable Energy and Geographic Information System. He started his career with the project management department of Phase3 Telecom as a Project Assistant. He also worked as an IT Support officer with Golden Green Energy Limited. Prior to joining Hotspot Network Limited, Mahmoud worked with Kano Geographic Information System (KANGIS) as the Head of Recovery Unit, charged with responsibility of populating and updating digitized Geo-data; before that he was the GIS Supervisor charged with Data Analysis and Quality Control.

He has an Msc. in Environmental Technology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and a Bsc. in Business Information Technology from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia. He also has a diploma and advance diploma in Computing from Informatics Institute, Kazaure, Jigawa as well as a Professional Diploma in Mass Communication from Bayero University, Kano.

Human Resource Executive

Mr. Dominic Ogu

With over 15 years work experience cross cutting information technology, business development and corporate services, Dominic brings his wealth of experience to head the Human Resource and Administration department at Hotspot Network Limited. Before joining Hotspot, he served as the Head of Human Resources and Administration in a financial institution where he worked for 6 Years .

He has consulted for many establishments both private and public on personnel management and business process improvement matters. Some of such consultancies include study tours on Public Private Partnerships to Dubai and Malaysia for some Directors and staff of Abuja Infrastructure Investment Company (AIIC).

Dominic holds a Bachelors degree in Statistics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and currently pursuing an MBA with specialization in Human Resource Management.

Senior Project Manager

Ms. Deborah Ekwenye

Deborah is a Project Engineer/Manager at Hotspot Group Limited. She is responsible for managing projects as well as  engineering and providing solutions for IOT and networking functions.

She is a Robotic and Network Engineer. She has a BSc in Computer Science from Caritas University, Enugu and an MSc in Cybernetics and Communication engineering at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She holds a Cisco Certificate as a Network Associate after undergoing a CCNA training and examination.

She has successfully done and managed some IOT projects during her masters and afterwards as an IOT consultant. She possesses skills in robot designs, building and programming skills in C, C#, Python, Arduino.

She did an internship at Nigerian Communication Commission where she worked as an IT support staff. She also worked at Federal inland Revenue Services for her NYSC and a contract staff afterwards in the E-services department.