Yemi Lalude

Founder and Managing Director
Adlevo Capital

Yemi Lalude is the founder and Managing Director of Adlevo Capital a private equity firm that is being launched to invest in technology enabled infrastructure and services opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa. He has over fifteen years of engineering, business development, product marketing, and investing experience in the information technology industry. Prior to founding Adlevo Capital, Yemi was a Principal at Granite Global Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley VC firm, where he invested in expansion-stage technology companies. He joined Granite Ventures from Siebel Systems where he managed the customer satisfaction product line. Prior to Siebel Systems, Yemi spent six years at Hewlett-Packard where he held engineering and leadership positions in the inkjet printer business. He serves on the Board of Directors of Intelliden, Inc.

Yemi received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (First Class Honors) from the University of Lagos (Nigeria), an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Graduate School of Business.