Oliver Akinrele, MBA

www.acendpro.com - MBE Certified AcendPro partners with organizations to modernize technology capabilities, streamline operations, and drive measurable business outcomes through strategic digital transformation. Key Leadership Responsibilities: • Lead business development, client engagement, and delivery for technology modernization initiatives • Provide executive-level advisory services in product development, engineering effectiveness, and enterprise architecture • Oversee partnerships with managed service providers to deliver scalable implementation and support • Ensure quality, compliance, and value alignment for public sector and regulated environments Focus Areas: • Digital Strategy & IT Roadmapping • Cloud Modernization & Infrastructure Optimization • Intelligent Automation & AI Enablement • Product & Technology Leadership Advisory • Cybersecurity & Operational Maturity Improvement

www.aligninnovative.com Provide capital advisory solutions to small and mid-size businesses seeking growth, improved cash flow, or operational expansion. Structure and broker commercial funding including working capital loans, merchant cash advances, unsecured lines of credit, equipment financing, and real-estate secured lending products. Manage end-to-end funding lifecycle from pre-qualification through lender packaging and closing, while maintaining compliance with state regulations. Build strategic referral partnerships and manage underwriting communications to deliver transparent, efficient funding decisions tailored to each client’s needs. Key Contributions: Developed a funding marketplace of direct lenders across multiple industries and credit profiles Advise business owners on capital strategy, debt structuring, and cost-of-funds analysis Implemented automated application workflows improving client onboarding speed by 60%+ Support startups with unsecured 0% credit stacking and tech-driven revenue finance solutions Drive pipeline growth through channel partnerships with advisors, real estate investors, and trade organizations

MTA - IT Enterprise Platform Engineering & Architecture | Enterprise Platform Technology Responsible for Enterprise Platform & Infrastructure Technologies to help improve application efficiencies and software deployment. Designed and developed strategy roadmap for MTA DevOps & Security DevSecOps infrastructure environment which includes Microsoft AI GitHub Copilot integration with cloud and source management services to help increase software quality and developer efficiency, enable concurrent development activities, and achieve faster development cycles. Designed and developed strategy and roadmap for implementation of webservices for MTA to support legacy and introduce modern microservices based systems within the MTA ecosystem. Designed robust security measures and compliance frameworks and governance to protect critical development resources.

✓ As the Chief Architect for the Digital Concierge Platform ( DCP ) project, broadened the scope and reach of in-house technologies through developing an integrated Digital Concierge Platform with the potential to be rolled out across multiple industry verticals ( Retail, Healthcare, Hospitality, Financial, Entertainment, Food Service, Manufacturing and expanding virtual services industries) and a business model inclusive of a sustainable monetization strategy. ✓ Activated opportunities to broaden the reach and impact of internal technologies, and create a thriving ecosystem of technology partners on behalf of Panasonic Innovation Center and Connected Solutions. ✓ Guided end-to-end engineering strategy across a wide suite of emerging technologies, including Visible Light Communication, facial recognition, and advanced cloud-based services. ✓ Achieved significant gains in staff morale and performance, introducing a new suite of practices designed to attract, support, and facilitate career pathing within the organization.

✓ Raised the level of product engineering performance and bottom-line ROI for Panasonic's Innovation Center North America, bringing key market trends, a deeper understanding of customer pain points, and hands-on R&D team training to bear in exceeding targets. ✓ Identified and championed areas of growth in other domains, and served as trusted counsel to senior leadership in capitalizing on synergy and performance improvement opportunities. ✓ Restructured and continuously improved in-house working practices and strategic priorities to build a high-performance, high-ROI organization.

✓ Identified untapped opportunity within the global export industry and built out standalone business.

✓ Spearheaded strategic engineering efforts across Enterprise, Distributed and Cloud with oversight across software maintenance, QA/Controls, and Development and site reliability. Built and managed global multi-site, multi-product software engineering, site reliability and sustaining engineering maintenance teams based in NY, NJ, CA, TX, China, India, Israel, Prague, and Japan. ✓ Streamlined project and product releases through active contributions to Agile SCRUM teams. Emphasized customer satisfaction as a core priority, executing changes such as a full build-out of product knowledgebase website to make a positive impact. Achieved significant reductions in call volume and issue backlog. ✓ Championed a new approach towards working with offshore resources such as software engineers to raise the standards of product maintenance across the board, and deliver an improved customer experience.

Led high-performance software engineering teams based in NY, NJ and CO in support of a global customer base. Led Global CA-Unicenter Network & Systems Management (NSM) sustaining engineering teams including enterprise security management infrastructure software.

In an era of technology and information, managers and executives need to have the skills to lead their organizations with a data-driven strategy. In this course, you will be exposed to the Analytics Management Framework, which outlines the strategic, technical, and managerial skills necessary to plan the integration of data analytics into your organization. In order to develop these key capabilities, this program connects best practice case studies from the sports industry, which has led the way in analytics, to illustrate how data analytics can be used for improved insights at an organizational level. These case studies cover a wide range of factors involved in implementing data analytics in an organization, such as goal setting, identification of challenges, selection of appropriate technologies and tools, structuring of teams, interpretation and communication, and evaluation of the efficacy of an analytics strategy.

The program draws parallels between blockchain technology and other general purpose technologies, highlighting its capacity to enable widespread, transformational change. You’ll examine how blockchain technology can cheaply verify, under certain conditions, the attributes of a transaction. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the cost of networking, and learn how blockchain technology can bootstrap and facilitate a marketplace without traditional intermediaries. Using an engaging mix of resources, you’ll be guided to explore the effects of blockchain technology on market power in digital platforms, privacy, and trust. The program looks toward the future of blockchain technology, exploring its longer-term implications for business and its relationship with other emerging technologies, including AI and IoT.

This executive program explores how new and existing business strategies can be improved through the introduction of technologies and digital systems. The framework of the course is based on the book Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future written by MIT Sloan faculty and New York Times best-selling authors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. This places the program in a unique position to leverage the knowledge and experience of these experts and guide you towards the creation of innovative business strategies. Course Includes: Investigate the business applications of AI and machine learning. Investigate decentralized technologies, specifically blockchain technology and its use for cryptocurrency and smart contracts. Deduce pricing strategies in relation to the commoditization and price reductions caused by platforms.

Design thinking is a powerful approach to new product development that begins with understanding unmet customer needs. It’s a human-centered design process that approaches problem-solving with understanding the user needs. Design thinking encompasses concept development, applied creativity, prototyping, and experimentation. When design thinking approaches are applied to business, the success rate for innovation has been seen to improve substantially. The Mastering Design Thinking program will lead participants through a step by step, design thinking process. To be considered successful, innovations have to solve the three key dimensions of Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability. Desirability: Is this product or service addressing a real customer need? Feasibility: Can we develop a solution that is technically feasible and better than competitors? Viability: Is there a viable business model around this product or service?