Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Designer, Engineer, Technologist

Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe invented and patented a robotic system which the United States Government acquired assignee rights. He holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees including a PhD in engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. He earned an undergraduate degree from Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria, where he graduated as his class best student. While in Analog Devices Corp, he co-designed an accelerometer for the iPhone. A recipient of IGI Global “Book of the Year” award, a TED Fellow, IBM Global Entrepreneur and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Prof. Ekekwe has held professorships in Carnegie Mellon University and Babcock University, and served in the United States National Science Foundation Committee. Since 2009, the founder of Tekedia Capital, and Chairman of Fasmicro – Intel Corp’s only Africa certified and authorized programmable microprocessor partner-has been writing in the Harvard Business Review. He was recognized by The Guardian as one of 60 Nigerians making “Nigerian Lives Matter” on Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day.

Education, technology and African development

Nations rise when great entrepreneurs emerge. Africa needs generation-defining entrepreneurs.

Engineering, Technological Innovation, Technology in Education, Technology Management

It is getting exciting; I am loving it. The story is evolving and it looks so great.

pushing policies through op-eds since many think my life revolves around transistors