Biography
Akin Ajao is a project management and business transformation professional with over a decade of experience delivering technology, business and strategic initiatives across finance and consulting industries. He is a Big 4 trained transformation consultant with experience working across North American and African financial services and corporate institutions. He has delivered several multi-million dollar projects working with some of the leading enterprise solutions and technology platforms across corporate, digital/omni-channel, finance functions and capital markets. Akin Ajao has led and worked on large transformation initiatives and target operating model rollouts with multiple technology and business stakeholders and delivery partners including DevOps, UI/UX designers, Solution Architects, QA and Change management professionals. He leverages waterfall, agile and hybrid project delivery methodologies in the course of his work.
Akin Ajao graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Oxford Brookes University and The University of Manchester. He holds Project Management Professional®, SAFe 5.0® Agilist, Professional Scrum Master I and Certified Scrum Product Owner® certifications. He is a career mentor with both the Project Management Institute (PMI) Toronto and Lakeshore chapters and joined the George Brown College Centre for Business Faculty in December 2023.
Academic Credentials
ICP-ACC Agile Coach The Agile Company — Nov 2024
SAFe® 5 Agilist, Scaled Agile Inc. — Mar 2021
Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance — May 2019
Prof. Scrum Master I, Scrum.org — Dec 2018
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, TD Bank Group — Apr 2018
Member, Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario — Feb 2017
PMP Certification, Project Management Institute. — Oct 2014
M.Sc. Development Finance, University of Manchester (Chevening scholar) — Dec 2013
Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants [ACCA] — Mar 2013
B.Sc. Applied Accounting, Oxford Brookes University — Mar 2014
B.Sc. Real Estate, University of Lagos — Dec 2006
Areas of Specialization
Project Management Program. Centre for Business
Areas of Expertise
- Enterprise Program Delivery and Governance
- Enterprise Strategic Initiatives and Agile Transformation
- Financial Services Technology
Career Highlights
- Senior Program Manager, PSP Investments ($200bn+ Institutional Asset Manager)
- Experienced Project Manager/ Scrum Master –—Wealth Management and Enterprise PMO, TD Bank Group
- Agile Project Delivery Contractor, Technology & Operations, Royal Bank of Canada
- Vice President — Project & Portfolio Management, Alpha A. Advisory (Advisors to the Travant Private Equity Fund 1)
- Senior Associate — Performance & Technology, KPMG Advisory Services
Other Activities
- Career Mentor — Project management Institute (PMI) Toronto and Lakeshore Chapters
- Former Board Member — Director of Partnerships, Canadian Association of Urban Financial Professionals (CAUFP)
Awards
- Chevening Scholarship Award Recipient. United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 2012
