MRS. FUNMI OPEKE

Managing Director, MainOne

In 2015, the company launched its data centre operations in West Africa with MDXi with a $40M investment resulting in West Africa’s largest Tier III data centre in Lagos, Nigeria, and now with a presence in Accra and Abidjan.

In 2019, she chaired the Presidential Committee to develop Nigeria’s National Broadband

Plan for 2020 – 2025. MainOne was acquired by Equinix, the global digital infrastructure company as its entry point to doing business in Africa on April 1, 2022.