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Thomas Segun Ilube (born July 1963) is a British entrepreneur and educational philanthropist and chair of the
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making him the first black chair of a major sport in England. He was ranked first in the ''
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2017'', an annual listing of the UK's 100 most powerful people with African or Afro-Caribbean heritage.


Early life

Ilube was educated at
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, in Richmond-upon-Thames and
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in
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, Nigeria, followed by a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Benin. He later received a master's degree in business administration from London's
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.


Career

Ilube was chief information officer (CIO) for the internet bank
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. Ilube founded the
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, a state secondary school in Hammersmith, west London, which opened in September 2011 and has become one of the UK's "most innovative technology schools". He created and launched Noddle, a credit reference service, in his time as MD of consumer markets at CallCredit Information Group. In 2005 Ilube co-founded Garlik, the online identity company sold to Experian in 2011 He is the founder and CEO of Crossword Cybersecurity plc, which was admitted to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the
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in December 2018. Ilube was a non-executive director of the
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, from April 2017, stepping down in June 2021 to take up the role of chair of the
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(RFU), and a non-executive director of FTSE100 company
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, the world’s largest advertising company by revenue, effective October 2020.


Charity

Ilube is the chair and founder of the African Gifted Foundation, a UK education charity focused on science and technology in Africa. They recently launched the
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, Africa's first all-girls science and maths academy. He was chair of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills. which opened in 2016 as the first brand new UK further education college in 23 years. Ilube provided the prize money for the Nommo Awards for African science fiction and speculative fiction, announced at the Ake Book Festival in 2016.


Recognition

He was the first recipient of the City Livery Club centenary "Root and Branch" Award in 2014, presented by
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. Ilube was awarded an honorary doctorate by the
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in 2005. In October 2016, Ilube was named by ''
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'' as the most influential black person in the UK after topping the annual list of the 100 most powerful people of African and African Caribbean heritage in Britain. Ilube received the 2017 Beacon Award for innovation in philanthropy. and in the same year, ''
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'' magazine listed Ilube as one of Africa's most influential people. In 2018, Ilube was awarded an honorary doctorate by City University, London, and was appointed a
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(CBE) in the
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for services to Technology and Philanthropy. In 2018, Ilube was elected an advisory fellow of
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, and subsequently elected an honorary fellow in 2021. In 2020 he was elected an honorary fellow of
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. Tom was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Benin in 2021 In October 2021, Ilube appeared on
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's ''
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''.


References

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