He currently heads one of Africa’s leading incubators and accelerators. From day one, his ambition has always been to contribute to the development of tech innovation on the continent. That ambition is still the same twenty years on. 

Bosun Tijani (photo) is a Nigerian entrepreneur, innovation expert, and researcher. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB), a tech lab and startup pre-incubation and acceleration space based in Lagos.

 “[..] For everything we do, we put a strong emphasis on innovation and how to build an innovation ecosystem that allows knowledge to be at the heart of how we solve problems. We call ourselves the social innovation center that is focused on accelerating the application of social capital and technology,” the CEO said in 2021, explaining the CcHUB’s DNA.  

Since the creation of the CcHUB in 2010, he has spurred the development of several socially impactful initiatives, including its VC fund Growth Capital, the Make-IT Accelerator, and the Giving4Good Challenge that aims to build innovative mobile platforms to facilitate philanthropic donations. 

Over the years, Bosun Tijani has managed to attract the support of major technology companies and institutions. They include  Google which, alongside the Rwandan Ministry of ICT and Innovation and the Mojaloop Foundation, is supporting the CcHUB’s Fintech Innovation Program in Rwanda. 

Since February 2022, he is the board chair of healthtech startup LifeBank. He is also an adjunct research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, since 2018. In 2014, he founded Truppr, a social fitness platform, after almost a decade of a professional career, which started as the national director of the non-profit organization AIESEC in 1998.  

In 2003, he joined DeliveryKing as the business development manager and, one year later, he was hired as the Deployment Lead (Africa) for Hewlett Packard (HP) Global Micro-enterprises Acceleration Programme (GMEAP). 

From 2005 to 2007, he was the International Trade Center’s Consultant in Internet and Communication Technologies. Later on, he joined English business services and consulting company Pera as head of the European research network until 2010, when he founded CcHUB.

In 2021, the New African Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential individuals in Africa and awarded him the Global icon of African excellence Award.  He is also on We Are Tech’s  2022 list of the 50 individuals shaping the African tech industry.

Melchior Koba