Prince Ayotunde Adebayo-Isadipe is a native of Ife, Ile-Ife. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with several track records in managing consumer products and services across multiple countries. For more than a decade, Prince Adebayo managed and directed the procuring, the sourcing, the purchasing, and the exporting of Nigerian products [Insert - to countries/continents?]. Prince’s expertise in promoting opportunities that showcase African Consumable products was demonstrated in 2013 when he organized the Export-Import Trade show at the Baltimore Convention Center, in Maryland, USA. Similarly, Prince Adebayo was instrumental in the 2016 Ooni-US Tour, Odùduwà Economic Development and Leadership Transformation Awards Dinner. Several cultural events in 2017 and 2018 are attributable to Prince’s organizational prowess, and his love for Yoruba culture and Work of Arts. In December of 2017, he was the brain behind the Ooni-Smithsonian African-American History Museum Tour, the Ooni-National Great Blacks In Wax Museum Tour, and Team Familiar - a Go-Go music band tour to Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
In 2018, Prince was responsible for the Africans In Diaspora-Olojo Festival Tour in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and Rebranding of Africa’s Identity, which featured Professor PLO Lumumba at the Baltimore Hilton Hotels.
As an entrepreneur, Prince Ayotunde is the founder of NaviGroup Inc. (an international trade consulting firm), Navigators Group Inc. (an international trading company), GlobalTel Telecom Inc., (a telecommunication company), Pan-Afrikan Back To The Roots Inc., and The EventsSpace Inc. (events and travel agency accredited by IATA).
Prince recently discovered new business ventures, and he has created Odùduwà Exodus Radio, GlobalMax Remit, Inc. (an online International Money Transfer company), Airtime Top Up, and Digital Money Wallet, and Bitcoin Exchange Corporation. Prince Ayotunde Adebayo-Isadipe‘s latest establishment is a socio-economic cultural group, the National Association of Odùduwà Heritage, which has a proposed financial affiliate, the Proposed Odùduwà Federal Credit Union.
Tope Adeyoju is the founder and President of Bronze Pillars Enterprise; a Maryland-based LLC that specializes in providing optimal business development strategies and technical support. He is an Agile practitioner and a visionary who created a database with direct reach to over 500,000 African Diaspora household and business contacts across North America (the United States and Canada). Mr. Adeyoju has planned and executed business development strategies to increase the visibility of several organizations in the black community such as non-profits, event producers, start-ups, and media companies that all required capacity building, government relations, public relations, media relations, corporate partnership, event sponsorship, and advertisement accounts. Currently, Mr. Adeyoju is working on policy-driven IT Modernization Projects for the U.S. government and creating avenues to support economic development in Africa through AfCFTA and AGOA.
Dr. Modupeola Adebayo (Nee – Aka-Bashorun) is a nurse and an educator. She began her nursing career in a telemetry unit and later transitioned into the Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Adebayo’s clinical specialty is in Health Informatics. She has worked as an Informatics nurse since 2009. In 2010, she participated in a ‘Big Bang” implementation of the Epic software in one of the leading public healthcare institutions in the southeast United States. She worked in the implementation team, first as an application coordinator and later as a supervisor for the procedure orders (for physicians and mid-level providers) and the radiology applications. She served as a project manager for several clinical projects and later as a mentor for other project managers.
Dr. Adebayo entered academia full time in September of 2017 where she currently instructs and provides advice to undergraduate and graduate students in the Nursing discipline.
Dr. Kazeem Bello is a seasoned Professional Banker and Project Manager. He commenced his banking career out of Nigeria working for some of the top line Commercial and Merchant Banks in Nigeria. He rose to the position of an Area Manager before he relocated to the United States in 1999. As a Professional Banker with an extensive knowledge of the economies of Nigeria and that of the West Africa, he heads the Trade Services Department at the Bank and several others like Corporate Finance and Corporate Banking. Dr. Bello relocated to the United States and continue his Banking career with the PNC Bank NA Headquartered in the State of Pennsylvania. He manages commercial banking activities and trade support services at the Bank. He moved his professional Banking career to Citi Bank NA New York/New Jersey and working in various capacities at the CitiBank for over 8 years. Notable is his extensive global network and experience in the Oil, Gas and Energy Business , Trade services and Investment banking.
He grew his knowledge of global financial business and received extensive training and development in global Private Equity fund management and Sovereign Funds management. He also holds qualifications and licensed Professional in Risk Management; Private Equity profession, insurance; Mortgage Banking & Real Estate; Development Banking and ACAMS-Anti money Laundry Associate. He holds a Master Degree in Finance & Economics, and a Doctorate Degree in International Development Economics
Basirat Ibrahim-Olagunju. A seasoned banker with fifteen years of experience with a very good track record of helping people. I am focused, driven and a great proponent of doing the right thing.
Sam Biodun Jegede, as fondly called by friends, was born and raised in Nigeria, where he had his elementary, secondary, and college education. He attended the famous University of Ibadan in Nigeria, obtaining his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Industrial Psychology. He taught in various high schools in Lagos, Nigeria, before relocating to the United States, where he has since been working in the healthcare industry, as a surgical instrument consultant.
He is one of the prime movers of the credit union. In his spare time, he enjoys reading general educational articles and going to the movie theater. He is currently involved in Yoruba activism.
Olawumi O. Winniran Ade-Apata, was born in Ibadan, Oyo state, Ile Odùduwà to David O. Winniran and Mary A. Winniran. Married with two children.
Olawumi went to St. Helen’s primary school in Ondo town. St. Monica’s girl’s grammar school, Ondo. She also attended Adeyemi college of education, Ondo. She was trained to be a teacher in the English language and French. After graduating with NCE (National Certificate of Education). I went ahead and had a bachelor’s degree in the English language in the same school which was then under the control of Obafemi Awolowo in Ile-Ife. She taught in a secondary school for a year as a youth coper at Apata Grammar School in Ibadan between 1999 & 2000.
Olawumi USA in 2003 and then went to school to become a respiratory therapist. Started working as RCP to date. I love to help people and that’s the major reason I chose respiratory therapy as a career.
I love traveling, socializing, and making friends. I hate injustice and believe that all humans should be treated equally as part of our national anthem and rightly put “b’a ti b’eru l’a b’omo” meaning “slaves and non-slaves are born the same way”.
I currently serve as the global treasurer of the Oodua Action Movement and a Co-founder of the National Association of Odùduwà Heritage.
Bolaji Fadeyi was born in Lagos, Odùduwà. She attended Victory High School and Aunty Ayo Girls High School in Eko Akete, Lagos, and later, Baptist Academy Secretarial and Business Administration School. She married in 1988 and moved to the United States shortly after, where she raised her four children in the Baltimore metropolitan area and worked for 16 years as a residential mental health specialist at Volunteers of America and Prologue, Inc. She currently works at Senior Helpers and LVA.