Mr. Olugbenga Oludare Ojo is an accomplished leader, with over 25 years of achievementachievements in building, transforming, and aligning technology objectives with evolving business goals to drive advanced growth in the information and communication technology industry.
With strengthstrengths in establishing, optimizing, and standardizing systems, services, and processes, Ojo is skilled at reducing costs, minimizing footprint, increasing productivity, and supporting constantly evolving the organizational needs of the Commission.
In his role as the Acting Director/Head of the Management Information Department, he has successfully defined strategic vision and road maps, as well as evaluated and selected business-driven technologies, while overseeing the design of solutions to achieve a strong return on investment and overall goals.
Ojo is a sound business-driven technology architect with expertise in high-value enterprise solutions, including infrastructure, virtualization, unified communication, security, remote access, back-up/recovery, and storage in a multi-vendor environment of UNIX/Linux, Microsoft, Dell EMC, Cisco, VMware, HPE, IBM and cloud solutions.
A detailed IT practitioner who focuses on applying the best tools and industry practices, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science combined with Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Public Administration with a specialty in General Administration and Public Policy. He has broad experience in IT infrastructure, multi-platform network implementation, and security systems. Ojo, a Fellow of both the National Institute of Education and Research (New Delhi, India) and the Institute of Information Management, is a natural communicator, trainer, and team leader with strong motivational skills and the ability to build, produce, and succeed. He has led the technology infrastructure and support of various ICT projects for over 20 years. AnFurthermore, he is an active chess player with an analytical mindset. He has held several positions within and outside the Commission, the most recent being thethat of Acting Director, Management Information, to drive the ICT component of the Commission’s mandate, as espoused in the NSIWC Act. He is married with children.