our team
Management
Adeyinka Akinyede-Ashaolu (Executive Director)
Adeyinka is the Executive Director of Wise Network Foundation. She is an international
development specialist, business consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, policy
advocate, youth engagement and women empowerment coach.
She has over 18 years or robust professional and coaching experience with reputable
organizations including the World Bank Group (IFC). She is an alumnus of the United States’
International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) as a Social Innovator and Change Maker; a
UNIDO trained Gender Lens Investment advocate. She is currently the Vice-Chairman for the
Lagos State Scrabble and Monopoly Association (LASSMA) with a focus on using sports as a
tool to develop the capacity of youth in secondary schools in Lagos. She is a volunteer mentor at Street2School Initiative, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s “Mentoring Women in Business” Programme, etc
She is passionate about financial literacy/inclusion, youth engagement, entrepreneurship,
women empowerment, climate change, and a tech enthusiast. and contributes articles on these areas. She extensive coaching and field experiences developing and delivering cutting edge programs and projects on financial literacy/inclusion for various age and social groups, and contributes articles in these areas.
Aderonke Olusanya (Trustee)
Adekemisola Akinyede (Trustee)
Dekemi is a brand and marketing communications professional. She has over 12 years’
in-depth experience working with several brands across various industries in West
Africa, North America and Europe. Her expertise spans marketing strategy, brand
development and management, communications, community management, digital
marketing, content creation, media buying and monitoring, event planning and
coordination, training, amongst others.
She holds a B.A. in Mass Communication from Babcock University, Nigeria and an
M.Sc. in International Management from the Paris School of Business, France. She has
a Certificate in Integrated Brand Experience from Orange Academy, Nigeria's foremost
School of Advertising and has attended several trainings on a myriad of subjects.
When she's not working, she enjoys travelling, reading and restaurant-hopping.
Taiwo Adewole (Trustee)
Taiwo is a renowned environmental consultant with about 23 years of broad-range industry
experience setting up climate sustainability initiatives as Co-Founder Peak Recycling
Services; Co-founder Waste Swap; Co-founder Circularity Africa; Former Managing
Director/CEO WasteExchange Limited; Former Executive Director Recycle Points Nigeria;
Providence Recycling and Executive Director, Sustainable Waste Recycling Community of
Nigeria. Board Member Sterling One Foundation Beach Clean Up Steering Committee.
Taiwo was selected as one of the 115 Young Africa Leaders that met with the former U.S.
President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington DC between August 3 – 5th
2010. He is an Alumnus of the U.S. Consulate’s International Visitors’ Leadership Program.
He was identified and awarded as one of Nigeria’s Top 100 Environmental Professional
2022 by Environment Africa Magazine. He was the Chapter contributor in the book
“WASTENOMICS” towards Sustainable Waste Management Practices and Education for
Sustainable Development in Nigeria, Published by Middlesex University Press, U.K.
He consults for Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Sustainable Development Goal Unit on
Environmental Sustainability and Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). He
is Senior Special Assistant on International matters on Waste to Energy/Wealth and
Member National Task Force on Marine Liter and Plastics Management in Nigeria
constituted by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)