Yemi Keri

Yemi Keri is a Chair and Non-Executive Director and award-winning commercially minded technologist with 23 years of experience in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industries serving in both the public and private sectors. She is at the forefront of digital transformation to tackle business and social problems; recognized as one of the foremost women in Technology in Nigeria with demonstrable evidence of delivering innovative business solutions through technology.
She is a Board member of the First City Monument Bank Ltd (FCMB), Investment One Financial Services, the Nigerian- German Chamber of Commerce, Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre and M & E Kaiser Limited. She is the President of African Business Angel Network and a member of the Governing Council of Fintech Association of Nigeria.

Yemi Keri is the CEO Heckerbella Limited and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Africa, a women’s movement initiated with a vision to increase women’s participation in angel investing as an asset class and promote education, cross-border investing, and investor-mentoring across Africa.

She is a member of the Investment Committee of Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF), managed by Acumen Capital Partners. She is a mentor to various digital and technology-enabled start-ups. Yemi is an Expert in Residence (EIR) at the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) and a Facilitator on Corporate Governance and Digital Technology & Trends at the Lagos Business School. She was honoured as Nigeria's most outstanding Public Sector CIO at the ICT Centenary Awards in 2014.