Olalekan Olude, a Nigerian entrepreneur, has joined TalentMatch, owners of PayDay; the fastest growing and most efficient payment platform for tech talent and creative.
He joined the startup as Cofounding Advisor, according to a report by TechEconomy.ng.
Olude, the co-founder and COO of Jobberman, West Africa’s biggest job search engine, was appointed by Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun as Special Adviser, Job Creation and Youth Empowerment.
In 2016, Olude was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians by Avance Media.
Speaking on Olude’s role, the founder/CEO of TalentMatch, Favour Ori, said that asides being excited about what they are building, he feels great about the people who are walking the path with him.
In his words:
“I am totally excited about the people I am building with. I got in contact with Olelekan in 2020, he was impressed with my work. He called me “A steller guy”. I implemented a bunch of things he suggested and they worked out perfectly fine. When I started building out TalentMatch/PayDay, it was basic instinct to reach out to him again.
“He said he would have been pissed if I didn’t involve him haha! Olalekan is brilliant.
Ori said that with Olude’s strong background in recruitment and Finance; he’ll be instrumental in our growth.
Olalekan speaks:
Commenting on his new adventure with Talentmatch, Olude said that he looks forward to advising the A-list PayDay team on how to scale exponentially into a globally successfully firm.
‘There is an increasingly stronger linkage between the acquisition of African creative talent by foreign firms and payments. The A-list PayDay team can exceptionally solve the issues around creative talents receiving payments and I look forward to advising them on how to scale exponentially into a globally successfully firm”, he said.
PayDay is the fastest and most efficient way for tech talent and creatives throughout the African continent to receive payments from their global/foreign clients in minutes, all on their mobile phones or PCs.
At the forefront of TalentMatch leadership are the co-founders: Dr. Rex Idaminabo, Chidi Nwaogu, and other competent African talents.
Furthermore, they work together to facilitate cross-border payments in Africa
Source: TechEconomy.ng