Tayo Oviosu

Mr. Tayo Oviosu founded Pagatech Limited, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining Travant, Mr. Oviosu served as a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. In that role, he was responsible for strategy, acquisitions, and private equity investments in four technology sectors - Virtual Computing, Application Networking, Security, and Network Management. He also helped lead Cisco's investment expansion in Africa. At Cisco, he led numerous acquisition and private equity investment opportunities, including the $130m acquisition of Reactivity, and investments in Aquantia (10G Base-T, Series A), and Guardium. He was also responsible for the private sale of 22% of Cisco's South African operations to a consortium of investors in 2007. Prior to Cisco, he served as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting in the CRM and Technology practice. At Deloitte, he worked on cases in five industries - high tech, telecom, pharmacy retail, government, and healthcare. He was primarily responsible for leading technical implementation teams. Mr. Oviosu earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California. He also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.