Fela Akinse

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Born (1989-01-19) 19 January 1989 (age 35)
Ondo State, Nigeria
Alma materUniversity of Lagos
OccupationFounder of Salubata
Spouse(s)Yewande Akinse
Childrenone

Fela Akinse (born 19 January 1989) is the founder of Salubata. He is an inventor and technology entrepreneur that created modular shoes from plastic recycling wastes and also for his CO2 to O2 shoe technology.[1][2][3][4]His efforts have been hailed as one of the successful strategies to curb plastic pollution in Nigeria by ex-president Muhammadu Buhari.[5]Salubata won an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers award in 2020 and Commonwealth Youth Programme award in 2022.[6][7]

Career

Akinse funded Salubata after he resigned as a business analyst and an environmental scientist in 2018.[8]

He co-founded Fintech and Genera, with his wife, Yewande Akinse, created an entrepreneurial course on Udemy.[2][9]

He is the first African to join the Commonroom Global Residency[10] and also owns two design rights, trademark and global patent in the United States and Nigeria in repurposing modular shoes from plastic recycling wastes.[2]

He was a delegate at the 2023 World Circular Economy Forum in Helsinki[11]and he is a honorary member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[6]and also a world peace ambassador to Nigeria.[12]

Akinse has been invited as a speaker and panelists at Princeton University,[13] World Economic Forum (Davos conference), Junior Chamber International, EU-Africa Business Summit in 2021[14], TEDx[15], Ashoka, Innovention series, Lagos Innovates, ChangeNow World event, International Ecomarathon, Waves of Change,Pirate summit[16]and EVPA (Impact Week 2022), Verdant Zeal ‘Innovention’ Series.[17] [18][19][20]

Personal life

He is married to Yewande Akinse also an entrepreneur and they have a daughter.[3]

Awards and recognition

In 2019, He won UK Government’s Department for International Trade (DIT) Hackathon Competition, Business Person of the Year' by The Entrepreneur Africa Awards and British Council Entrepreneurship Award. He was nominated for World Economic Forum Global Shapers 2020 and won the 2021 edition of Science Innovation Award by Stellenbosch University and 2022 just IMAGINE IF by Durham University.[21][22][4]

  • Winner of AU YOUTH PAVILLION BIC Africa-AeTrade Business Idea Challenge[23]
  • Deji Alli Young Talent Award (DAAYTA) 2011[24]
  • Africa 3535 Laureate (2019)[25]
  • Winner of the UUBO Black Friday Pitch Competition[26][27]
  • 2020, Princeton Africa Pitch Award[28]
  • 2020, Orange Corners Incubation award[29]
  • 2020, Next Einstein Forum Sciencepreneur Competition award[30]
  • Masschallenge Accelerator 2022[31]
  • Winner of Hack the Normal Sustainability Prize[32]
  • Winner of 2020 Meaningful Business 100 (MB100 2020)[33]
  • Winner Square Forward Accelerator 2023[34]
  • Prix De L'Entrepreneur Africain 2022[35]
  • Winner of the Extreme Tech Challenge (African Region 2021)[36]
  • Young Greentech Award, Winner of La French Tech Innovation Award[37]

References

  1. ↑ "Changing The Narratives Around Waste Reuse in nigeria". sunnewsonline.com. 2023-02-11. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "A look into innovative and localised waste recycling in africa". tribuneonlineng.com. 2022-03-16.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Africans top 5 entrepreneurs in the waste recycling business". tribuneonlineng.com. 2022-12-13.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Recycling waste into wealth improves economy diversity". vanguardngr.com. 2022-07-13.
  5. ↑ "i'm proud of our youths excelling at home abroad buhari". The Nation. Nigeria. 2022-06-26.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "CUSTOMIZABLE SHOES FROM THIS STARTUP COULD HELP STAMP OUT PLASTIC WASTE". entrepreneurship.ieee.org. 2021-01-08.
  7. ↑ "Nigerian Start ups wins at Commonwealth". The Nation. Nigeria. June 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  8. ↑ "Innovation: Buhari urges youth to intensify efforts". The Nation. Nigeria. 2022-08-27. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  9. ↑ "Udemy Entrepreneur Instructor". Udemy. 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  10. ↑ "2021 Residency first global cohort". thecommonroom.org. 2021-12-13.
  11. ↑ "Africa makes its case for circular economy at the World Circular Economy Forum 2023, in Helsinki, Finland". afdb.org. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  12. ↑ "Ambassador in African Region". peacetracts.org. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  13. ↑ "Events speakers profile". africasummitprinceton.org. 2022-06-26.
  14. ↑ "The EU-Africa Business Forum (EABF) provides an unrivalled occasion for high-level dialogue" (PDF). euafrica-businessforum.com. 2022-02-22.
  15. ↑ "TEDx program of local, self-organized events". TED (conference). 2019-09-13.
  16. ↑ "PIRATE Summit thrives on interactive formats and P2P learning". piratesummit.com. 2023-06-13. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  17. ↑ "2021 Verdant Zeal 'Innovention' Series Sets Circular Economy On The Front Burner". brandspurng.com. 2021-10-26.
  18. ↑ "NEF Global Gathering". gg2020.nef.org. 2020-05-13.
  19. ↑ "The winners of the au youth pavillion bic africa aetrade business idea challenge". bic-africa.eu. 2022-11-26.
  20. ↑ "Start up pitch Tech point Africa". Techpoint Africa. 2022-04-13. Retrieved 2022-04-13 – via YouTube.
  21. ↑ "2022 just IMAGINE if finalists!". justimagineif.webspace.durham.ac.uk. 2022-03-24.
  22. ↑ "African innovation winner". matiemedia.org. 2021-11-26.
  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. ↑ "The 35 Young Innovators Making Africa Great in 2019 !". africa3535.com. 2019-11-25.
  26. ↑ "nigerian entrepreneur wins 1000 black friday pitch competition grant". thecable.ng. 2021-05-28.
  27. ↑ "udo udoma belo osagie hosts inaugural black friday pitch for smes". businessday.ng. 2021-05-20.
  28. ↑ "Blue Invest Africa". blueinvest africa. 2022-05-13.
  29. ↑ "Five Nigerian Start ups". guardian.ng. 2022-05-13.
  30. ↑ "Next Einstein Forum Top 25 Challenge Of Invention To Innovation". ventureburn.com. 2022-05-13.
  31. ↑ "Nigerian Startups 15 others Selected". techawkng.com. 2020-02-27.
  32. ↑ "Bekos Hack Normal Sustainability Hackathon". Yahoo! Finance. 2022-03-15.
  33. ↑ "Meaning business award winner". positivenaija.com. 2020-03-06.
  34. ↑ "Square up awards". squareup.com. 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  35. ↑ "Africa entrepreneur award awards". africa-entrepreneurs.com. 2022-04-09. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  36. ↑ "Tech Award". extremetechchallenge.org. 2023-02-19. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  37. ↑ "Tech Award". younggreentech.net. 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2023-01-12.

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