MDX-I - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Chairman of the MainOne Ghana Board
Africanus Mensah is the Chair of the MainOne Ghana Board. He is the Owner & CEO of Amaja Oilfield Limited, was appointed as Board Chair in March of 2011. Africanus holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He also possesses management certificates from MIT Sloan, USA and the University of Michigan Business School also in the USA.
Africanus began his work career with Schlumberger Oilfield Services Limited, where he worked for over 18 years in the Oil & Gas industry and rose to the Vice President for West Africa Operations and also Vice President QHSE for North and South America Region. His career with Schlumberger Oilfield Services spans over 11 different countries, including The United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, France, Angola and Nigeria.
Akin Ogunsola is a seasoned IT professional with over 10 years' experience in IT strategy and outsourcing - with core expertise in infrastructure automation, security and cloud adoption. Akin currently leads the Cloud Services Team at MainOne where he provides leadership and vision in the delivery of all MainOne cloud services.
Akin is an active supporter of Tech startups and demonstrated this by pioneering the MDXi Application Partner Program (APP) - an initiative targeted at technology startups to reduce their infrastructure spend, enabling them to invest the money on other things to accelerate their growth.
Job Titles:
- Data Center Operations Manager
Mr. Oluwole Adeoti is the Data Center Operations Manager at MDXi. He is a graduate of Electrical Electronics Engineering from the Federal Polytechnic Bide, Niger state and has a Master's in Business Administration from the Lagos Business School. He is also an Alumnus of Nanyang University Singapore. He is a Certified Data Center Operations Manager (Capitoline), Certified Data Center Design Professional (CNET), ISO 20000 (Service Management) Certified, Certified enterprise architecture (TOGAF), Certified project manager (PMI) and Certified business continuity professional (DRII).
Prior to joining MainOne, Oluwole led the Data center and Enterprise Architecture team of First City Monument Bank (FCMB). He has over 15 years' experience in Information Technology infrastructure and Project Management in both servicing and the financial sector. He has been involved in a range of activities ranging from core IT infrastructure, alternative power (Solar energy) and Data Center build, process improvement and management.