Ada is an award-winning food entrepreneur, investor and passionate African development advocate. She is Founder of Agrolay Ventures, an investment firm focusing on early-stage innovative food companies in Africa. She’s also the founder of Nuli, Nigeria’s fastest-growing farm-to-table beverage brand and restaurant chain. Ada serves on the Board of the One Acre Fund and Infinite Foods. She is a member of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Presidential Youth Advisory Group. She is also the interim Chief Operating Officer of the World Hunger Fighter’s Foundation (WHFF), a non-profit, founded by World Food Prize Laureate Akin Adesina, to invest in young food innovators.
For three years Ada served as Senior Adviser to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture, launching novel initiatives that attracted millions of investments to Nigeria’s agribusiness sector. Ada has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, MSc in Economics and Finance from University of Warwick.