Gbolala Awonusi

Gbolala Awonusi

Chief Executive Officer

A Presidential Award winner, graduate of Mechanical Engineering, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, a Member of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). Awonusi has a Pan-African University Certificate in an Entrepreneurship Course, also, a Level II Candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Program. He has in-depth project management skills, a promising entrepreneur with unwavering determination to excel.

He worked as a Project Coordinator/Research Analyst at Alpine Investment Services, a Project Finance firm before resigning to set up Octragon. He developed the Lagos Neighborhood Garage Project (LNGP) for Lagos State, for which he won a Presidential Award and was hosted by the Presidency with a N10million grant to start the Pilot Project in Lagos.

Very skillful in making investment pitches, he has made several presentations with his colleagues to High Net Worth Individual & Institutional Investors like His Excellency; Senator Bola Tinubu; His Excellency Mr. Donald Duke; The Dantatas and Gen. T.Y.Danjuma to mention a few. He also played active role in the deal structuring and project management of an over N11billion shopping mall project in Kano, the Ado Bayero Mall. This wealth of experience brought together is what makes him an exceptional entrepreneur.