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Temilorun Olanipekun

Enterprise || Knowledge || Public Service

London, GB

About

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.

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Work experience

  1. October 2021 – present

    JoVE

    Product Specialist
  2. July 2021 – October 2021

    Oxford Foundry

    Entrepreneurial Fellow
    - 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.
  3. July 2021 – September 2021

    Center for Global Development

    Research Intern
    - 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.
  4. Infogrid
    July 2021 – August 2021

    Infogrid

    Business Development
    - 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.
  5. November 2018 – October 2019

    Civic Monitor

    Data/Research Associate
    - 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.
  6. January 2018 – October 2018

    Nigerian Insitute of Social and Economic Research

    Research Assistant
    - 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.

Education

  1. 2020 – 2021

    University of Oxford

    Master of Science - MS, African Studies
  2. 2013 – 2017

    Bowen University Iwo

    Bachelor of Science - BS, Sociology