Kofo Akinkugbe is the Founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd. She is a mathematics major, and also has a MBA from the University of Strathclyde.

Secure ID, is Nigeria’s leading Smart Card Manufacturing and Personalization Plant; providing comprehensive end-to-end payment, identity management and digital security solutions for the financial services sector, telecommunications, government, education, healthcare and private enterprises. The company is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard, and operates a world-class production plant employing best practices and international standards. The company’s client base spans over five (5) African countries and is the leading EMV certified card plant in West Africa, one of 6 in Africa and a member of the elite club of only 80 such companies in the world.

She started her career in the banking industry, working with International Merchant Bank Plc and Chartered Bank Limited.  She remained in the financial sector for over 12 years until 1997 when she left to start Interface Technologies, a security management and biometrics technologies company.

Kofo Akinkugbe won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.

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