Oluwasegun Awoyinfa Finance and Technology Lawyer, Project Manager and Venture

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Program Manager

Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 7 months)

• Managed and executed strategic programs across the holding company and subsidiary companies, ensuring alignment with the company's objectives. • Created and managed extensive project documents from initiation to execution. • Fostered collaboration between the various business units to drive operational performance improvements. • Set up technology stack and digital systems that increased the operational efficiency of team members by 50% while reducing deliverables turnaround time by 30%. • Conducted risk assessments and monitored agreed KPIs to identify potential roadblocks, ensuring effective mitigation and resolution and timely delivery of program milestones. • Oversaw project budgets and facilitated the procurement of t

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Venture Analyst Intern

Hawke Ventures

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year 1 month)

• Sourced new investment opportunities by securing and reviewing pitch decks. • Performed due diligence on companies in MarTech, commerce enablement, and Adtech. • Created reports, memos, FISFACTs, and technical documents for management. • Managed direct relationships with founders pre and post-investment. • Researched new industries and technologies to expand the investment thesis. • Utilized CRM tools to track the investment pipeline, ensuring efficient management of pitches and facilitating the transition of promising opportunities to the next stage of the investment process. Additionally, engaged in proofreading pitch decks to maintain high-quality submissions for review. • Gained insights into M&A operations manageme

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Technical Product Manager

Ocean Protocol

Jun 2021 - Feb 2022 (9 months)

Managed project and product initiatives from initiation to launch, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs. Provided support via email to team members and users, facilitating effective communication throughout the project lifecycle. Additionally, emphasized the importance of process documentation, as it is essential for creating comprehensive project documentation, reports, and team workflows, which are critical for successfully delivering products and developing digital systems.

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Venture Lead

MZZ Ventures Europe (now Dream VC)

May 2021 - Sep 2021 (5 months)

• Offered advice to startups (FinTechs, EdTechs, PropTech and Blockchain) to help them improve their business performance in terms of operations, marketing, product fit, management structure, strategy and financing. • Set up project plans, goals, roadmaps, dashboards and KPIs for the venture team. • Directed a cross-functional Ventures Team, helping to allocate tasks appropriately to each skillset and ensuring each member completes all assigned tasks with quality and in a timely manner • Participated deal sourcing and investment pipeline management simulations. • Created pitch decks, reports, memos and visual presentations for startups. • Advised on market entry and helped MZZ founders navigate regulatory constraints. • Advised on th

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Project Manager

Ghost Squawk

Feb 2021 - Sep 2021 (8 months)

• Managed software projects in web3, DeFi and blockchain technology. • Managed social media, created and curated content, engaged and managed a community of over 12000 members on Discord and provided support for specific queries via email. • Analyzed and tracked project performance data to optimize the acquisition and retention of users. • Worked with cross-functional teams to execute tests and product improvements like a DeFi news squawk service and marketing DAO. • Created a CRM system to manage clients, sales pipelines and revenue growth. • Created business, product and feature requirement documentation.

Project Manager (Product and Compliance)

Aviator

Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 7 months)

• Drafted and reviewed contracts, term sheets, investment documents and other legal documents for the issuance of SAFEs, convertible notes and investment arrangements. • Created product roadmap and developed initiatives utilizing user and value based approaches to attain short, mid- and long-term financial and operational goals. • Raised a seed fund of over USD $850,000. • Reduced feature delivery timelines by 20% by streamlining processes and implementing agile methodologies. • Developed and ensured consistency across internal policies and operating procedures. • Successfully integrated operational frameworks to enable seamless onboarding of project team members and alignment with strategic goals. • Managed service providers like ag

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– Community builder and Senior Consultant

ISCL

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Set up and kicked off communities on Discord, slack, Reddit, Quora and Github. •Conducted research, created community growth strategies and marketing strategies •Managed communities for professionals, blockchain and web 3 projects. •Facilitated and organized over 30 online sessions and events. •Created policies, guidelines, charters and governance processes for DAOs. •Created sales collateral, community technical and non-technical documents. •Aligned community and technical needs with business goals. •Carried out community relations and member touch to drive engagement, manage crisis, expand growth and identify external stakeholders for partnerships. Provided weekly progress reports to clients and responded to queries by providing e

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Product Manager

UK Tech Hub x DPD

Dec 2020 - Aug 2021 (9 months)

• Setting product's vision and strategic direction by prioritizing features and resources and owning the roadmap. • Managed releases and cross-functional dependencies of other teams like product designers, Business Analysts, Developers and stakeholders. • Transmitted feedback and feature requests from stakeholders to the core team. • Crowdsourced, developed and curated ideas that were value driven for users. • Prioritized features by ranking them against strategic goals and Initiatives. • Created project charters and supporting documents while managing the roadmap. • Tracked team progress and efficiently managed resources to create a finance captable application and food delivery application. Assisted team members in troubleshooting

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– Data Analyst

HAMOYE AI

May 2020 - Sep 2020 (5 months)

Used python for data wrangling and cleaning. •Worked on datasets using SQL and excel for analysis. •Created reports, dashboards and storytelling using PowerBi and Powerpoint. •Gained fundamental knowledge on python for finance. Made presentations on analysed data through verbal communication to senior stakeholders and team members

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– Agile Facilitator and Project Manager

Metamor46

Feb 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)

Assisted teams of client companies in adopting agile values, principles and best practices and worked across multiple teams to ensure effective approaches while encouraging teams to contribute ideas, optimize and continually improve. •Conflict management during meetings, sessions and events. •Developing a budget and operating plan for programs and events with senior team. •Business development, marketing, event management and client management. •Created programs and activities in accordance with organizational goals. •Tracked and measured success, created reports, post-event evaluations and communicated insights drawn to the management to improve processes and growth. Engaged in customer support and issue troubleshooting from project

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Legal Analyst and Business Development Specialist

Sidebrief Ltd

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Created plain writing content for the blog three times a week. •Created pitch decks, proposals and conducted valuations and due diligence for startups seeking for grants, VC funding and other financing. •Worked with over 40 fintech, edtech and general business startups on Trust and Safety and Data Protection compliance. •Carried out digital marketing and sales strategies to source for and handle client conversion and partner relationships. Provided email support to potential and existing clients on their compliance needs and other queries. •Analysed data to optimize internal systems and processes.

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– Senior Associate and Business Consultant

Law Accent

Nov 2017 - Aug 2021 (3 years 10 months)

• Led the firm's Finance and Technology Law team and offered the role of Partner. • Successfully managed and launched a consulting company for the firm (Accent Consult) dedicated to educating founders and scaling startups in Africa. • Prepared and reviewed agreements like joint ventures, share purchases, technology transfers, intellectual property, founder's agreements and other business activities • Reviewed and evaluated internal processes to identify hidden risks, optimise them and ensure compliance with legal regulations. • Engaged in cross-border transactions involving clients in Europe and North America. • Started a community for entrepreneurs and founders (Accent Business Hub) • Created course content and wrote books for start

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Freelance Executive Assistant

Fiverr and Upwork

Jan 2017 - Current (9 years 7 months)

• Served over 30 returning clients globally to create and implement productivity solutions. • Worked with top executives in NGOs, startups and blue chip corporations as an Executive Assistant, Project Manager and Chief of Staff. Managed calls, emails, pipelines, schedules and strategic initiatives for various founders and executives.

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