Youngest Entrepreneur To Own An Indigenous Automobile Manufacturing Company In Nigeria
Nigerian-born Entrepreneur, Oluwatobi Joshua Ajayi is the founder of Nord Automobiles Limited, one of the first Nigerian automobile brands and Africa’s premier automobile corporation.
Oluwatobi Ajayi, CEO of Nord Automobiles Limited, is also the Managing Director and CEO of Jetvan Automobiles Limited. Born in 1988, he is a native of Ogun State (Abeokuta).
Nord Automobiles is one of the first Nigerian automobile brands and Africa’s premier automobile corporation. The brand provides world-class quality vehicles with world-class warranties to all their vehicles with service stations nationwide and at a lower and affordable price.
It depicts the true Indigenous company Nigerians and Africans crave for which is the uniqueness of the brand among other indigenous automobile producers in Nigeria and Africa at large.
Oluwatobi is a widely creative and astute entrepreneur, starting his career at Mercedes-Benz Nigeria, growing very fast to become the head of division (vans) and later co-founded Jetvan, an authorised dealer of Mercedes-Benz.
Oluwatobi is an alumni of prestigious Lagos Business School (Pan Atlantic University) where he bagged his MBA, he has a certificate from the IESE Business School Spain after concluding his Pan African EMBA Module. He holds a B.Agric in Soil Science and Farm Mechanization, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun state.
He is among the most influential people in the Nigerian Automobile Industry, winning so many local and international awards and recognitions for his contributions to the automotive industry in Nigeria and Africa.
He was listed by Forbes as one of the most promising young entrepreneurs in Africa for 2018. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administrators.
Oluwatobi Ajayi wants to change the narratives about Africa to make the world know that Africa can impact the world and do something great even with collaboration from other partners from every other country, this is where his career really started.