Damilola Agboola

Olumidamilola ‘Dami’ Agboola is an infrastructure and enterprise development leader with nearly two decades of experience spanning energy, telecommunications, and social impact across the United States and Africa. He currently serves as Director of Project Controls at Congruex Network Solutions, where he oversees a multi-client fiber-to-the-home portfolio across the US, and as Managing Director of TGIS Nigeria Limited, a premier OEM representative in the last-mile mobility space with offices in Sagamu, Nigeria.

His project controls experience includes a $3 billion gas-to-liquids project at Chevron, roles with Subsea 7 and LyondellBasell, and responsibility as National Program Controls Manager for Google Fiber across 11 US cities.

Dami holds a degree in Management and Supply Chain from the University of Houston and a graduate certificate in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies from Harvard, and is an AACE International Certified Cost Professional.

In 2009, Dami co-founded LoftyInc Allied Partners, one of Nigeria’s pioneering innovation and investment platforms, and its subsidiary Wennovation Hub—Nigeria’s first privately run startup accelerator. Wennovation has supported over 300 startup teams and more than 6,000 young entrepreneurs, whose ventures have gone on to raise over $68 million in follow-on funding. The hub’s work earned the SAP/Ashoka Changemakers Award and recognition in McKinsey’s ‘Lions Go Digital’ report. Dami also helped convene the Lagos Angel Network, Nigeria’s first angel investment club, and in 2015 LoftyInc won a $1 million US & Mexico Clean Foundation Grand Challenge grant for a mobile payment solution serving underserved communities. Dami describes himself as a ‘Behind-the-Scenes Change Agent’ focused on value creation.