Kendall Ananyi
| Kendall Ananyi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kendall Ananyi |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Nigerian and Canadian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Victoria University of Benin (Nigeria) |
| 💼 Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tizeti |
| 🌐 Website | kendallananyi |
Kendall Ananyi (born June 1981) is a Nigerian/Canadian entrepreneur. He is the founder and the current chief executive officer of Tizeti...[1] Ananyi was named as one of the top CEOs in telecoms in Nigeria by Nairametrics in 2023.[2]
Education
Ananyi attended Federal Government College Warri, where he completed his senior secondary education in 1996. He then completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin (Nigeria). He left for Canada and earned a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria[3]
Career
Ananyi started his career as an Associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Nigeria and Canada and then worked writing software for Microsoft.[4] He then moved back to Nigeria to join ExxonMobil as a Project Engineer [5]. He then founded Tizeti, a top wireless internet service provider in Nigeria[6] in 2012. In 2017, Tizeti was accepted to YCombinator as part of the Winter 2017 batch[7]. He has raised over $5m for his startup across a seed round[8] and Series A [9]
After successful exits as an angel investor in Paystack[10] and Flutterwave, he joined Pioneer Fund as Senior Venture Partner for Africa[11]
He also has awarded scholarships to students since 2021.[12]
He is also an expert in digital infrastructure in the African Continent and a regular on CNBC[13] and has shared his viewpoints on digital infrastructure in Nigeria[14] as well as leads his team at Tizeti to utilize clean energy in powering digital infrastructure with Solar powered wireless infrastructure[15].
External links
References
- ↑ "Nigerian Solar-Based Internet Provider Seeks IPO, $50 Million". Bloomberg. September 2022.
- ↑ "Meet the most powerful CEOs in Nigeria telecoms sector". 8 October 2023.
- ↑ "Kendall Ananyi platform statement for University of Victoria Senate" (PDF).
- ↑ "Kendall Ananyi Background on Building the Future". 16 October 2017.
- ↑ "Kendall Ananyi founder of Tizeti launch in YCombinator". 27 December 2019.
- ↑ "Nigeria's Top Internet Service providers in 2023". 14 December 2023.
- ↑ "YC Alumni raises Seed round for Tizeti". 26 June 2017.
- ↑ "Tizeti founder closes Seed round". Forbes. 6 October 2021.
- ↑ "Tizeti Series A". 27 December 2019.
- ↑ "How to de-risk your investments as an Angel investor". 18 August 2023.
- ↑ "Pioneer Fund Senior Venture Partner".
- ↑ "Tizeti awards scholarships to UNIBEN students, gives automatic jobs". 6 October 2021.
- ↑ "How Africa is closing the digital infrastructure gap". 7 April 2022.
- ↑ "Bridging Nigeria's Digital infrastructure gap".
- ↑ "Financial Times on Diesel-dependent Nigeria looks up to the sun".
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