Olawale Ayilara is a passionate entrepreneur with over 10 years’ experience starting and running businesses in the South West of Nigeria, handling transactions worth a combined value of over $200 million. He is a recipient of the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 recognition.
Prior to founding LandWey, he worked as Head, Business Development, Creativity and Strategy at Eagles Insight and Innovations and Co-founded Nigerian Property Investments Group; a real estate platform for Nigerians in diaspora. Olawale is a business strategist that has spent most of his career in Business Development, Innovations & Strategy.
An alumni of Lagos Business School EDC with an MBA from the Metropolitan School of Business and Management UK, Harvard Executive Certification in Real Estate Management, Finance, Design and Leadership, and still a current student at the Harvard Business School, he sits on the board of over 10 high profile businesses, and is a member of the Sponsors for Young Growing Business Association, a pan African organization comprising a network of leading African professionals thriving in challenging career paths..
He is a Future Award Business Category winner (2019), The Most Innovative Real Estate Leader Award 2017, and boasts other numerous recognitions and media features. In December, 2020, Olawale Ayilara was announced the Group CEO of Oxygen Holdings, a diversified group of companies with a core focus on real estate, healthcare, fintech and agriculture.
