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Africa Internet Group, AIG, has of recent replaced the CEOs of 4 ecommerce startups in Nigeria.
The Rocket Internet affiliate has completed the replacement of the heads of Kaymu, Jovago, Easy Taxi and Lamudi. All the retrenched CEOs however remain in the country.
The group replaced Marek Zmysłowski who left Poland for Nigeria to ensure his new enterprise, Jovago, becomes the next big thing in online hotel bookings in Africa. And with the support of AIG, the platform is on its way to achieving that. But several weeks ago, news emerged that he had been replaced with Kushal Dutta as the Managing Director at Jovago Nigeria.
Even though Zmysłowski is no longer with Jovago, he has chosen to remain in Nigeria as a serial investor and will also be launching another startup soon.
Not long after Marek's exit from Jovago, news also leaked that Evangeline Wiles has also left online marketplace Kaymu. Last August, she'd revealed how the company which is now in 17 countries is fairing in Nigeria were helping SMEs to migrate to the cloud. Sefik Bagdadioglu is now the new managing director for Kaymu Nigeria.
Just like Marek, Wiles is reportedly staying back in Nigeria, set to launch her own online fashion platform.
The hurricane of leadership change continued at Easy Taxi where the co-founder and former MD Bankole Cardoso has been quietly replaced with Adaora Asala. Cardoso however remains with AIG, acting as the AIG’s global head of communications.
Another AIG startup that had recorded leadership change is online property portal Lamudi. Since 2013, Obi Ejimofo had been the managing director but has since been replaced with Akua Nyame-Mensah who until her latest appointment was the managing director of Lamudi Ghana.
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The Rocket Internet affiliate has completed the replacement of the heads of Kaymu, Jovago, Easy Taxi and Lamudi. All the retrenched CEOs however remain in the country.
The group replaced Marek Zmysłowski who left Poland for Nigeria to ensure his new enterprise, Jovago, becomes the next big thing in online hotel bookings in Africa. And with the support of AIG, the platform is on its way to achieving that. But several weeks ago, news emerged that he had been replaced with Kushal Dutta as the Managing Director at Jovago Nigeria.
Even though Zmysłowski is no longer with Jovago, he has chosen to remain in Nigeria as a serial investor and will also be launching another startup soon.
Not long after Marek's exit from Jovago, news also leaked that Evangeline Wiles has also left online marketplace Kaymu. Last August, she'd revealed how the company which is now in 17 countries is fairing in Nigeria were helping SMEs to migrate to the cloud. Sefik Bagdadioglu is now the new managing director for Kaymu Nigeria.
Just like Marek, Wiles is reportedly staying back in Nigeria, set to launch her own online fashion platform.
The hurricane of leadership change continued at Easy Taxi where the co-founder and former MD Bankole Cardoso has been quietly replaced with Adaora Asala. Cardoso however remains with AIG, acting as the AIG’s global head of communications.
Another AIG startup that had recorded leadership change is online property portal Lamudi. Since 2013, Obi Ejimofo had been the managing director but has since been replaced with Akua Nyame-Mensah who until her latest appointment was the managing director of Lamudi Ghana.
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