Yemi Keri is one of the foremost Women in Technology in Nigeria with experience in both the Public and Private sectors. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Heckerbella Limited, a Technology Business Transformation company, and also a Partner at Holmen Consulting, an Information Technology Consulting firm.
She is responsible for the implementation of the Biometric Identification, Time & Attendance, and Payroll Automation System (BIPATAS) for over 80,000 Delta State paid Staff and Pensioners as well as the automation of the processes of Ekiti State Board of Internal Revenue’s Property enumeration and Land Use Charge Project. She is managing the development of a subscription-based Digital Operations Platform. This is the intellectual property of Heckerbella and an indigenous solution.
Yemi Keri is the co-founder of iAspire Data Science Fellowship Program (an iDAF.ng) training and preparing Nigerian bright minds to use Artificial Intelligence and advanced machine and deep learning concepts to tackle business and social problems.
A Board member of the First City Monument Bank Ltd (FCMB), Investment One financial Services, the Nigerian-German Chamber of Commerce, Beyond Credit Limited and Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre. She is also a member of the Technical Committee of NASSBAR of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, an External Faculty Member at the Fintech Institute and on the Advisory Board of Ingressive LLC, GAIA Women Club, The Assembly Hub, SabiHub and several other organizations.
Yemi Keri is the co-founder of Rising Tide Africa, a women’s movement initiated with a vision to increase women’s participation in angel investing as an asset class and promote education, cross-border investing and investor-mentoring across Africa. She is also a Director of the Lagos Angel Network and serves as a mentor to various digitally and technology-enabled start-ups. Yemi is an Expert in Residence (EIR) at the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos.