Femi Adeyemo

The keynote address - Femi Adeyemo

Femi Adeyemo is the founder and Chief Executive Officer for Arnergy, a Bill Gate’s affiliated venture backed distributed utility that provides energy reliability to residential, commercial and industrial customers in Nigeria. Femi led Arnergy to complete a $9m equity capital injection from 4 tier 1 global investors. Arnergy enables SMEs and economic clusters run sustainably by providing reliable and affordable uninterrupted electricity with rooftop solar solutions.

Beforehand, Femi executed nationwide rollout of four (4) mobile telecommunication access networks, he was the Single Point of Contact on rollout and Managed Service Operations projects to Multinational telecom OEM including Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia across Africa, South America and Asia from startup phase to nationwide scale. With 15 years of versatile experience, Femi is particularly skilled at operation excellence deploying high availability and reliability for operations ranging from Solar Energy to Telecommunications.

His work has been featured on CNN, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, CNBC, CGTN, Quartz, Yahoo finance, Channels TV, NTA and several other international and local press.

Femi has an M.Sc from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.