Yemi Keri is the Chief Executive Officer of Heckerbella Limited,
a business transformation company, and a Partner at Holmen
Consulting, a Business Consulting firm. In her capacity, she is
responsible for the implementation of the Biometric
Identification, Time & Attendance, and Payroll Automation
System (BIPATAS) for over 80,000 Delta State paid Staff and
Pensioners. She was the Consultant responsible for the
implementation of the transformation initiatives of the Information Technology
The strategy of the National Pension Commission (PenCom).

Prior to this, she was the General Manager for Information Technology and
Enterprise Systems for ntel, NatCom Development and Investment Company
Limited. Preceding this, she was the pioneer Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer of the Edo State Directorate of Information Communications &
Technology Agency (ICTA) and also held the role of Regional Manager, West Africa
for SAP Africa. Yemi has over twenty-one years of work experience, fifteen of
which has been in the Information Technology and Telecommunications
industries; ten of which has been at the highest management levels.

A multidisciplinary graduate of Accounting (University of Maiduguri), and Masters
in Information Technology Project Management from the American
InterContinental University, Illinois, Strategic Decision Making for Management
from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London and an alumni
of the Lagos Business School/IESE Business School, Barcelona, and China Europe
International Business School (CEIBS).Yemi holds membership of several
professional bodies including ICAN, CIBN, CITN and the Nigerian Computer Society
(NCS). She also holds various certifications in Risk and Project management and
received the Centenary award for the Most Outstanding Public-Sector CIO in
Nigeria in 2014.

Yemi Keri is the co-founder of Rising Tide Africa, a women’s Angel Investing
Network with a vision to increase women’s participation in angel investing as an
asset class and promote education, cross-border investing and investor mentoring
across Africa. She is a member of the Lagos Angel Network and serves
as a mentor to various digitally and technology-enabled start-ups. She is also an
Expert in Residence (EIR) at the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan-
Atlantic University, Lagos.