Doctor in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Smart Grids from the University of Malaga. Associate Professor for 5 years in the Department of Continuous Media Mechanics, collaborating and publishing in universities and international magazines.

Since 1998 she worked at Endesa Distribución. She has been Head of Planning for Andalusia Centro, working with high, medium and low voltage networks. From the beginning of the Smartcity Málaga project, he coordinated the Control Center, working on remote management, automation, communications, renewable generation, storage systems, energy efficiency, demand management and electric vehicles.

Later, she was the Head of the Smartcity Málaga Living Lab of the Enel Group, coordinating different Innovation projects financed by CE and CDTI such as Flexiciency, Coordinet, PALOMA, MONICA and PASTORA, in which Artificial Intelligence techniques are used, with Machine Learning models and Deep Learning, and Big Data Analytics.

Since June 2019, she has held the position of 1^st Deputy Mayor of the Málaga City Council, Delegate for Innovation and Urban Digitization, coordinating: the City Council Computer Center, the achievement of European funds, innovation projects in the city and the National Pole of Digital Content .

Olivier is Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Kasada Capital Management. Kasada is an independent real estate private equity platform dedicated to hospitality in Sub-Saharan Africa, advised by Kasada Capital Management part of the Kasada group. The firm was launched with the backing of Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, and Accor, a world leading hospitality group.

In April 2019, the Kasada group closed on its maiden fund, Kasada Hospitality Fund L.P (registered in Mauritius), with equity commitments of over USD500 million. Kasada is currently the most active investor in the hospitality industry in Sub-Saharan Africa with a current portfolio of 18 hotels representing close to 3,000 keys since its first acquisition in January 2021.

In his last position as CEO of AccorHotels Middle East and Africa, he was responsible for the management of a portfolio of over 200 hotels consisting of 50,000 rooms across over 30 countries and representing 30,000 employees. He joined the Middle East team in 2011 when the Group had 40 hotels in the region. He has extensive hospitality industry experience gained over +20 years at Accor.

Before joining Accor, he spent 10 years within Deloitte’s Audit and Corporate Finance practice.

Olivier has a BA from Grenoble Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po Grenoble) and an executive MBA from ESSEC Business School.

Olivier is French and speaks English & French.

Bayo has over 20 years of broad and diverse mix of business experiences across continents With proven track record of turning around failed businesses. His past experiences at Texas Instrument, Walmart, Petsmart and Amazon shaped and solidified his analytical acumen, management and finance expertise that he continues to demonstrate in all his businesses.

Bayo’s prior role at Amazon.com as Snr. Finance Executive managing all products related to Inbound and Inventory for Fulfilment by Amazon Worldwide with over $80 billion in sales is evident of his capacity and ability to deliver results.

He holds a MBA in Finance from Clark Atlanta University, USA and a B.Sc from Obafemi Awolowo University in Demography and Statistics.

Currently the Group CEO of Wakanow and all its subsidiaries worldwide and also a serial entrepreneur with investments in multiple business endeavors including Wave Beach, Athena and Dundu Nation.

He is also known as Bayo Lion because of his tenacity to success, a great people manager and an empathetic leader.