Olumide Adeleye is an entrepreneur, Digital Learning Consultant and Agile / Business Analysis coach. He is the Founder & CEO of Twim Institute where he mentors trainee software engineering, product and business trainee teams and provides training for programs of the British Computer Society (or BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT) at UK academic levels 4 and 5.

Olumide is an MBA candidate at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is also studying for an MSc in Smart EdTech at UCA, France. He has a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Economics, Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication and several certifications in IT, Business Analysis and media arts. In 2012, Olumide moved to India, where he gained tech certifications while also understudying Bollywood filmmaker, Satish Kumar. During that period, he observed that India’s focus on vocational education created self-employment opportunities for her young people and decided to implement this model in Nigeria. The result was Twim Academy, a school that raised entrepreneurs in the media and creative arts, and which now operates as Twim Institute. Twim Academy was named one of the “50 Most Innovative Startups in Africa” by New York Forum Africa.

Oumide Adeleye received the Leap Africa 2018 Dr Pamela Hartigan Prize for Social Innovation. He is a 2015 Finalist for the Ford Foundation Prize for Youth Employment and a 2015 MasterCard Foundation / Ashoka “Innovations for Youth Employment in Africa” winner. He was also a part of the “Education Challenge Africa” fellowship program at the DO School in Germany. In 2017, he was also a Leap Africa Social Innovation Fellow, and an aKoma Amplify Storytelling Fellow.

Olumide’s educational storytelling has seen him producing documentary and learning content for international organizations such as Cambridge University / the Queen’s Young Leaders’ programme, Youth for Technology Foundation and Ampion. He was one of the international media professionals who covered Deutsche Welle’s “Global Media Forum” (Germany’s biggest media event) for Orange Magazine and the European Youth Press in June 2016.

Widely consulted for SME startup advice and mentoring, he hosts and facilitates the Twim Institute Annual Conference- the biggest entrepreneurship event in Oyo State, Nigeria, with the latest edition having over 2500 participants. He also cohosts the Olumide and Moremi Adeleye Show on radio with his wife, Moremi.