S2-EP6 WITH OLUSOLA AMUSAN

On this episode, OLU Co-founder at VESTI Joins RINZ to discuss the journey in building Vesti, thoughts on migration and challenges in the tech industry.

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 social entrepreneurship 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 completed the Non-profit Strategy course at Philanthropy University, the Block Chain Essentials specialization at IBM, and is the principal software 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 lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, Tolu, and two beautiful girls.