Femi Adeyemo is the founder and Chief Executive Officer for Arnergy, a Bill Gates-affiliated venture-backed distributed utility that provides energy reliability to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in emerging markets, starting with Nigeria. Arnergy enables SMEs and economic clusters to run sustainably by providing reliable and affordable electricity with rooftop solar solutions.

Femi is an entrepreneur with a flair for disruptive innovations. He founded Arnergy in August 2013 and has successfully led the Company to become one of Nigeria’s fastest-growing renewable energy companies. As CEO, Femi provides overall strategic leadership and oversight for Arnergy. He also primarily drives the company’s technology, innovation, product development, and business development. In 2019, Femi led Arnergy to complete a US$ 9 million Series A equity round with capital raised from four tier-1 global investors.

With over 17 years of versatile experience, Femi is exceptionally skilled at deploying technical and innovative solutions with solid project management and operational excellence to achieve high availability and reliability in telecommunications and solar energy operations.

Before Arnergy, Femi worked in several firms, including Huawei, Telinno, Omantel and Cornea Consulting. He handled several large-scale projects in these roles, including a nationwide rollout of four (4) mobile telecommunication access networks. He was also the single point of contact on the rollout. He managed service operations projects for multinational telecom OEMs, including Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia, across Africa, South America, and Asia from the startup phase to a nationwide scale. His work has been featured on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Reuters, CNBC, CGTN, and other international and local press.

Femi holds a Master’s in Computer Networks/Information Technology from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He also has a Bachelor of Technology from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.