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Revision as of 23:52, 27 June 2024

Fela Buyi Akinse
Born (1989-01-19) 19 January 1989 (age 35)
Ondo State, Nigeria
Alma materUniversity of Lagos
OccupationFounder of SALUBATA
SpouseYewande Akinse
Children1, Sijuade Akinse

Fela Buyi Akinse[1][2]is the founder of SALUBATA technology which won Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP). [3][4].He has also published a global patent.[5]

He was acknowledged by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari after he received the award at the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)[6]

Education

Fela Akinse Was born in Lagos State but hail from Ondo State. Akinse’s passion for the environment led him to study Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management at the University of Lagos, but he also had a keen fascination with the intersection of art and science.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental toxicology at the top of his class in 2014 and, two years later, a master’s degree in Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management from the University of Lagos.[7][8]

Career

Fela Akinse founded SALUBATA after he resigned as a business analyst and an environmental scientist in 2018. He is the first African to join the Commonroom Global Residency.[9][6][7] [10][9]

He is known as an inventor and technology entrepreneur that created modular shoes from Plastic recycling wastes and also for his CO2 to O2 shoe technology.[11][12][13][14]

He currently owns two design rights, Trademark and global Patent in United States and Nigeria in repurposing modular shoes from Plastic recycling wastes and also the carbon decomposition technology of Carbon dioxide from carbon to breathable oxygen and also has partnership with Department for International Trade.[10]

Akinse has been invited to speak on stages including a panellist at Princeton University [6], World Economic Forum (Davos conference), Junior Chamber International, EU-Africa Business Summit in 2021, Ashoka, Innovention series, Lagos Innovates,ChangeNow World event, International Ecomarathon, Waves of Change, EVPA (Impact Week 2022) and as an innovator, business strategist, mentor and motivator. He was nominated for World Economic Forum Global Shapers 2020.[15][16][17][7][10][18]

He won 2020 Meaningful Business 100 (MB100 2020) and 2021 edition of Science Innovation Award by Stellenbosch University.[19][20]

Akinse co-founded “pap.earth and also PlyChain”, with his wife, Yewande Akinse and also created an entrepreneurial course on Udemy.[21][22]

Awards And Recognition

  • Winner of AU YOUTH PAVILLION BIC Africa-AeTrade Business Idea Challenge.[23]
  • Deji Alli Young Talent Award (DAAYTA) 2011.[24]
  • Africa 3535 Laureate (2019) Winner of the UUBO Black Friday Pitch Competition (2019).[25][26]
  • Winner of the Princeton Africa Pitch 2020.[27]
  • Winner of Orange Corners Incubation 2020.[28]
  • Selected as one of the Top 25 Innovators in Africa for the Next Einstein Forum Sciencepreneur Competition 2020.[29]
  • 100 Meaningful Business 2020.[30]
  • Masschallenge Accelerator 2022.[31]
  • Winner of Hack the Normal Sustainability Prize.[32]

Personal Life

He is married to Yewande Akinse also an entrepreneur and they have a daughter[11]

Reference

  1. ↑ "MUKURU YOUTH MEET YOUTHADAPT CHALLENGE WINNER". adaptationportal.gca.org. 2022-03-18.
  2. ↑ "Africa makes it's case circular economy world". afdb.org. 2022-09-11.
  3. ↑ "Fela Akinse entrepreneur awards". entrepreneurship.ieee.org. 2021-01-08.
  4. ↑ "President urge youths". thenationonlineng.net. 2022-10-13.
  5. ↑ "Global patent". patentscope.wipo.int. 2024-03-13.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "i'm proud of our youths excelling at home abroad buhari". thenationonlineng.net. 2022-06-26. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "is" defined multiple times with different content
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Recycling waste into wealth improves economy diversity". vanguardngr.com. 2022-07-13.
  8. ↑ "from plastic to designer salubata creates trendy modular shoes as a fashionable way to recycle waste in nigeria". africaclimaccelerator.com. 2022-04-13.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Global common room". thecommonroom.org. 2021-12-13. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "so" defined multiple times with different content
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "A look into innovative and localised waste recycling in africa". tribuneonlineng.com. 2022-03-16.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "meet africas top 5 entrepreneurs in the waste recycling business". tribuneonlineng.com. 2022-12-13.
  12. ↑ "fela akinse how i founded salubata". thenationonlineng.net. 2022-11-10.
  13. ↑ "salubata recycling plastics to footwear". guardian.ng. 2021-02-18.
  14. ↑ "muric warns nigerian youths against japa syndrome". theeagleonline.com.ng. 2023-11-23.
  15. ↑ "Events speakers". ted.com. 2019-09-13.
  16. ↑ "Event speakers" (PDF). euafrica-businessforum.com. 2022-02-22.
  17. ↑ "Fela Akinse". gg2020.nef.org. 2020-05-13.
  18. ↑ "meet the winners of the au youth pavillion bic africa aetrade business idea challenge". bic-africa.eu. 2022-11-26.
  19. ↑ "African innovation winner". matiemedia.org. 2021-11-26.
  20. ↑ "Meaning business award winner". positivenaija.com. 2020-03-06.
  21. ↑ "Akinse a couple united by love technology". punchng.com. 2023-03-06.
  22. ↑ "Instructor". udemy.com. 2021-07-06.
  23. ↑ "meet the winners of the au youth pavillion bic africa aetrade business idea challenge". bic-africa.eu. 2022-05-13.
  24. ↑ "winner emerges in daayta competition gets n12m grant". thisdaylive.com. 2021-04-29.
  25. ↑ "nigerian entrepreneur wins 1000 black friday pitch competition grant". thecable.ng. 2021-05-28.
  26. ↑ "udo udoma belo osagie hosts inaugural black friday pitch for smes". businessday.ng. 2021-05-20.
  27. ↑ "Blue Invest Africa". blueinvest africa. 2022-05-13.
  28. ↑ "Five Nigerian Start ups". guardian.ng. 2022-05-13.
  29. ↑ "Next Einstein Forum Top 25 Challenge Of Invention To Innovation". ventureburn.com. 2022-05-13.
  30. ↑ "adepeju jaiyeoba nnaemeka ikegwuonu temie giwa tubosun fela akinse emerge winners in 2020 the meaningful business". positivenaija.com. 2020-03-13.
  31. ↑ "Nigerian Startups 15 others Selected". techawkng.com. 2020-02-27.
  32. ↑ "Bekos Hack Normal Sustainability Hackathon". finance.yahoo.com. 2022-03-15.
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