Damilare Ogunleye (pictured on the left) is the co-founder and CEO of FoodLama, a trusted shopping assistant that makes your online grocery shopping easier to find the perfect food products that meet your household’s exact dietary requirements or preferences. 

Damilare has over 12 years marketing experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPGs) sector, most recently as co-founder of an e-commerce platform supporting African creatives to monetise their skills, serving over 50,000 consumers with over $4M revenue in 5 years. 

Damilare is a fellow of UNCTAD Alibaba eFounders program that annually identifies 25 high-potential entrepreneurs shaping the digital economy. The fellowship program includes an intensive capacity-building program at Alibaba’s HQ in Hangzhou, China covering e-commerce, inventory management and rural commerce, logistics and mobile payment systems, and data analytics.

A member of the Youth Advisory board of OXFAM Work in Progress Alliance from 2017 to 2019, Damilare provided recommendations on the scope and impact of the program in Nigeria, which focuses on capacity building for SMEs and young individuals. He is an alumnus of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, a beneficiary of the World Bank GEM Business Plan Grant, as well as Systemspecs NITDA seed funding. Damilare was also a Top 50 Finalist at Startup Istanbul 2017, and CEO of one of the top 30 startups at DEMO Africa in 2017.

In the past, Damilare worked as a manufacturing supervisor in the culinary manufacturing unit of Nestle Nigeria, leading a team of 45 people. He also worked in the marketing communications industry at one of the leading advertising agencies, designing and executing multimillion dollar marketing plans of leading CPG brands.

Damilare co-founded and raised about $300k for the Nigerian Oil and Gas technology Hackathon (NOGTECH), Nigeria’s first incubator programme for early stage technology founders in the energy industry. In 2018, convinced about the power of youth leadership and civic participation, he managed the historic campaign of the youngest ever presidential candidate in Nigeria’s democracy, Chike Ukaegbu.

Damilare is a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He also has a postgraduate award in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and migrated to the UK in early 2021 as an exceptional digital talent.