Olugbenga Agboola (born 1985) is a Nigerian software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of

Flutterwave Flutterwave is a Nigerian fintech company that provides a payment infrastructure for global merchants and payment service providers across the continent. History The company was founded in 2016 by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Olugbenga Agboola, and Adel ...

Career

Born in Lagos, Agboola is a graduate of the MBA program at

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. Prior to founding Flutterwave with

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Iyinoluwa Samuel Aboyeji (born March 28, 1991) is a Nigerian entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Andela, and was the former managing director of Flutterwave. Aboyeji was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by ''New African'' mag ...

in 2016, he worked as an application engineer at

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and in product management at

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National Honours

Agboola was decorated with Nigeria's National Honour Medal of the Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) by President

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in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of technology, innovations and economic development. He was awarded the honour alongside

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, Abubakar Abdullahi,

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, amongst others.

Recognition & Awards

Agboola was listed on ''

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'''s

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list in 2020. He was also on ''

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'''s Next 100 list in 2021. In April 2022, Agboola received the Tech Investor of the Year award in the Business Insider Africa awards.

References

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