Mr Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE
Director-General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)

Mr Abdullahi is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan – trained strategist with 15 years of experience in IT operations, business transformation and solution architecture, across both private and public sectors. He attended Leadership and Management courses at Harvard University in the USA, the University of Cambridge in the UK and IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Mr Abdullahi has worked for nine years (2004 – 2013) at Galaxy Backbone and held several positions such as Network Engineer, IP Network Field Engineer, Senior Network & Lead, IP Operations Team, and Senior Solution Architect & Lead, Technical Solution Design.

In 2014, Mr Abdullahi joined the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a Technology Architect, where he dedicated his time to developing a Technology Architecture Repository that gives a 360 view of the Bank’s IT Infrastructure and facilitates ease of decision-making on new IT investments. He was part of the team that executed software license rationalization that has increased cost savings for the Bank in license annual subscriptions.

As the 1st Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in Nigeria’s Public Sector, he is also a Certified Project Manager and Solution Architect.

He also has many professional certifications in Networking, Telecommunications, Service Management and Solution Design.