Enterprise || Knowledge || Public Service

Temilorun Olanipekun

I’m a versatile business development and research professional with 4 years of experience leading and executing market and UX research on product development across Europe, North America, and Africa. 

I have a zest for helping organizations make data-driven decisions to build resilient products, turn leads into paying customers and expand into new markets.

Product Specialist

- Selected as one of 20 Fellows on the Oxford Foundry’s Entrepreneurial Fellowships Initiative at the University of Oxford.

- The Fellowship is a fully funded eight week placement at a startup in the Oxford Foundry’s Elevate accelerator portfolio, mentorship and coaching from world-leading entrepreneurs and experts, and personal and professional goal setting and leadership support.

Entrepreneurial Fellow

- Executing research on global education inequities and contributing to policy reports to inform and influence global south countries Governments’ policy directions.
- Expediting rigorous data analysis and report writing actions on school feeding programs across low- and middle-income countries.
- Analyzing COVID-19 impact on education and learning outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, using Stata programming.

Research Intern

- Conducting rigorous competitive analysis for new PropTech products in the US and UK to grow the company’s revenue and lead clients’ employees’ safe return to the office.
- Piloting market enablement and branding research for new calendar years to accelerate operations in the UK and US markets, poised to position the start-up strategically as a leader in the PropTech industry.
- Executing research and writing operations to optimize customers experience on products.

Business Development

- Coordinated research for the development of the Aljazeera profiled civic-tech tool, ‘Know Your Candidates’, to democratize information about candidates vying for political offices in Nigeria.
- Led digital tools’ pre-design and post-design user experience research, distilling cumbersome textual data of 30,000+ words to succinct ~5,000 words in 72 hours for engaged readership and enhanced users’ experience.
- Managed digital tools’ backend using Laravel and WordPress Content Management System.

Data/Research Associate

- Conducted field research through designing and administering questionnaire, and conducting interviews. 
- Contributed to academic publications through desk research, quantitative and qualitative analysis on Nigerian social issues.