YELE OKEREMI

Yele Okeremi is the Founding and incumbent Chief Executive Officer of Precise Financial Systems Ltd (PFS), an indigenous software company through which he has championed indigenous contents and digital changes in the software industry as well as the financial sector.

Before PFS, Okeremi had a successful professional career starting at Inlaks Computers. He then moved to Industrial Bank Limited (Merchant Bankers) as a Programmer/Analyst where he rose to become the Chief Information Officer of the bank before leaving for Ventura Savings and Loans Limited as the Head of Systems and Logistics department.

A former board member of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Okeremi is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a member of the Presidential Initiative for developing the software industry in Nigeria. He is an icon in software development in Nigeria, spanning over 30 years of experience across the IT and financial sector in which he has been involved in different areas of IT – as a Programmer, Systems Analyst, IT Manager, Head of Systems and Logistics.

He holds a B.Sc degree in Computer Science (With Economics) from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and a Masters in Business Administration. He has also schooled at Wits Business School, Johannesburg South Africa and the prestigious Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he completed the Owner President Management Program as well as Doctor of Business Administration degree from the Swiss Business School, Zurich, Switzerland.