About Olusola Amusan.
Olusola (Olu) Amusan, is an Artificial Intelligence Evangelist, Disruptor and serial Technology entrepreneur, an UNLEASH Alumnus, HIVE Global Leader, the Author of Are You Branded or Stranded (2010, 2020), a global shaper of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Country Support Mechanism (CSM) of the Global Community Engagement & Resilience Fund in Nigeria and the President of the 8th Session of the African Youth and Governance Conference. He is passionate about creative capitalism as a key to unlocking Africa's immense potential.
In January 2018, he started building a high-impact AI program that has trained 1000+ Junior AI Experts on Machine Learning Models using mostly Python and R getting the attention of Facebook, Microsoft, World Bank and Amazon Web Services. Olu is very passionate about AI and he is also the author of A-Z of AI Consulting. He founded Coven Works Inc. (covenworks.com) which has been backed by Google, C5 Capitals (Washington DC) and Amazon Web services.
Sola is strongly concerned about subjects such as unemployment and its economic impact, literacy, eradicating poverty and inspiring leadership, through the effective deployment and use of big data, mobility, social media, Artificial Intelligence and cloud technologies. In 2014, he was appointed as the head of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft Nigeria, Olusola was responsible for driving all non-profit initiatives, social investments and impact oriented engagements for the subsidiary within the larger Middle East and Africa group. He is also an author, conference speaker, trainer and local Development Professional- widely acclaimed as one of Africa’s Youngest Growth Consultants.
Olu has completed projects for Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, World Bank, Sterling Bank of Nigeria, Shell Petroleum Development company, First Bank of Nigeria, Youth bridge Foundation Ghana, Zambia & Johannesburg, Schwarzkopf Foundation Germany, GIZ, Ashoka as well as Entrepreneur Organization. He has graced high level panels at Wharton Business School and John Hopkins University and completed the Non-profit strategy course at Philanthropy University, the Block Chain essentials specialization at IBM, and serves as principal AI architect at Coven AI, and Curators University.
Since 2021, Olu has been the CEO/Co-founder of VESTI, a Neobank for immigrants designed for community and information sharing, financial services and smooth transitioning for immigrants. VESTI was founded to bring solutions to problems faced by
immigrants and also afford them seamless transitions to their preferred destinations globally.
Olu shares his time between Lagos, San Francisco and Dallas, Texas. He is married to Tolu, and they have two beautiful girls.