Engr. Yele Okeremi

14Yele Okeremi is the founding and incumbent Managing Director of Precise Financial Systems Ltd: A company that is involved in the development of software for use in the financial sector. Starting out with a capital of about $80, Precise Financial Systems has grown into a multi-million dollar concern with clients in over 30 countries.

He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (With Economics) from the Obafemi Awolowo University and a Masters and Doctorate in Business Administration. He is an alumnus of the Wits Business School, Johannesburg South Africa and the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at the prestigious Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

He has a passion for the development of intellectual capital of the black race and continues to advocate his position that irrespective of the conditions of the black man, the black man is by no means inferior in intelligence to anyone else in the world.

He has had a successful professional career starting at Inlaks computers, from where he moved to Industrial Bank Limited (Merchant Bankers) as a Programmer/Analyst. He rose to become IT Manager of the bank and then left for Ventura Savings and Loans Limited as the Head, Systems and Logistics department; a position he held until he co-founded Precise Financial Systems in 1994.

Yele is a leading icon in software development in Nigeria and is a member of the Presidential Initiative for developing the software industry in Nigeria.

He is a devoted Christian and family man. He is married and blessed with three lovely daughters.