Sim Shagaya - Tech4Africa 2012

Sim Shagaya

Sim Shagaya has worked with leaders such as MicroStrategy, Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel) and Real Networks. Sim also served as the Africa lead for the search and contextual advertising leader – Google Inc.

He is the founder and Executive Chairman of DealDey.com – West Africa’s leading flash sales site and CEO of the fast growing Konga.com, an online retailer with a reputation for stellar customer service.

Prior to building ecommerce businesses, he founded E-Motion Outdoor, a leading Out-of-Home advertising company in Nigeria and was the West African Principal for Rand Merchant Bank of South Africa.

Sim is a graduate of George Washington University, Dartmouth College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.