Mr Wole Abu
Managing Director, Liquid Telecom

Wole Abu is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Liquid Intelligent Technologies Nigeria (https://www.liquid.tech/local-offices/country/nigeria). The liquid is the largest wholesale provider in Africa with over 100k of fibre across 14 countries. Prior to his appointment at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Abu served as the Chief Executive Officer of Pan African Towers, a telecom infrastructure company he built into one of the leading towers in Nigeria. Abu also served as Vice President of Sales at Airtel Nigeria (https://www.airtel.com.ng), where he also held several senior management roles in the Human Resources, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Marketing departments respectively.

Abu was named among the top 20 Towercos Chief Executives in the World by TowerXchange. He also received the Nigeria Tech Innovation and Telecom Award (NTITA) by the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) for his outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the telecom industry. Abu was also elected by the same association to serve as its Publicity Secretary. He has managed startups and mature companies, leading these businesses into periods of massive and rapid growth through new business service rollouts while driving positive change in the respective companies.

He is on the board of Daystar Power Group (https://www.daystar-power.com) and Eko Konnect Educational Initiative. He is an alumnus of the University of Benin, Lagos Business School, Indian Institute of Business Management, Ahmedabad & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.