Obajide Rotilu

Co-Director, Oxford Africa Business Forum, Oxford Africa Business Alliance

Obajide is an MBA student at the University of Oxford and the Co-Director of the Oxford Africa Business Forum 2021. He has over ten years of professional experience across multi-disciplinary industries spanning Cybersecurity, Technology risk, Consulting, and Media & Entertainment. 

Before joining Oxford Saïd, Obajide was an Entrepreneur and founded TBCA, an African focussed digital talent marketplace providing access to quality work and global markets for independent experts. He grew the platform to 500+ Consultants hailing from 26 countries. The startup received recognition as one of the fast-growing SMEs in Nigeria 2020 (Business Day) and was also recognised by the Lagos State Government through the Lagos Innovates program as a Startup for Lagos to support.

Before founding his startup, Obajide was a Senior Management Consultant at Deloitte focusing on Cybersecurity, Risk Advisory, and Governance helping organizations transform their security processes, develop and implement cybersecurity strategy, and leading vulnerability assessment and penetration testing engagements. He served on the board of the Deloitte West Africa Strategy team and received multiple awards for innovation including the In-tune-with-Deloitte award and the Deloitte PAN African Innovation award. He further represented Deloitte as part of a team at the Washington DC International Ethical Hacking competition; Cyberlympics 2015 organized by EC-Council and ISACA.

In 2016, Obajide was named an Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader, the flagship Youth Professional program from the Policy Centre for the New South in Morocco. He is also an MTV Africa Music Award winner from the premiere MTV awards show in Africa in 2008. Obajide is passionate about the future of media distribution, content protection, the business of film and production finance, and has written, produced, and directed projects that have gained public support.

Obajide has a B.Eng in Information & Communications Technology from Covenant University, an MSc. (Distinction) from the Queen Mary University of London, and is currently on the Dean's List at Saïd Business School (SBS). He has taken short courses at the Vancouver Film School and London Film Academy and also co-chairs the Oxford Saïd Media & Entertainment club at SBS. 

He is a Saïd Business School Foundation Scholar and hails from Lagos, Nigeria.