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Funke Opeke is a Nigerian Electrical Engineer, founder of Main Street Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of Mainone Cable, a communications services company based in Lagos State, south-western Nigeria.

Education and early life[edit source] She obtained a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University and Columbia University respectively.[1] After she graduated from Columbia University, she followed with a career in ICT in the United States as an executive director with the wholesale division of Verizon Communications in New York. In 2005, she joined MTN Nigeria as chief technical officer (CTO). She served as adviser at Transcorp and chief operating officer of NITEL for a brief period.[2]

External Links[edit source] Official website

References[edit source] Jump up ^ The Editor. "Executive Profile". Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Retrieved 13 October 2016. Jump up ^ Femke, Van Zeiji (24 September 2015). "Funke Opeke: Nigeria's cyber revolutionary". Aljazeera. Retrieved 13 October 2016. Categories: Nigerian businesspeopleLiving peopleEnglish people of Nigerian descentEnglish people of Yoruba descentYoruba women in businessNigerian women in business21st-century Nigerian businesspeopleNigerian motivational speakersNigerian philanthropistsYoruba philanthropistsWomen company founders