Olabode ‘Bode Maxwell-Akinyemi is a Tri-sector Leader, passionate Educator, IT Professional, Product Leader, Pan-African Campaigner of The New Education, Social and Tech Entrepreneur.

He is a 2024 Climate Leader with the former United States Vice President, Al Gore's The Climate Reality Project, the President of the Junior Achievement Nigeria Alumni, General Secretary of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, Lagos Hub.

2023 Nominee for Junior Chambers International (JCI) Nigeria’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Nigeria Award, 2022 TIBA Lagos Ambitious Professional of the Year,

He is the Winner of the United States' based BoomStartup Accelerator and the STRT Community Award 2021 for the Education Category

Maxwell-Akinyemi has helped over 25,000 young African Professionals and people of color upskill or move completely into technology as a result of his burning passion to see Africa set a global position of unflinching relevance in Education, Technology, Business and Leadership.

He is a certified Project and Product Manager with over 7 years experience in Technology Education, Social Entrepreneurship, and product development, with broad-band knowledge of in-demand technology conversations from Data Science, Product/ Software Development, IoTs (Internet of Things), AI to Web 3.

'Bode currently works with the Vatebra team, an ICT company delivering cutting-edge software solutions in Africa, where he leads the effort of the Academy in training and deploying talents for both its technology team and other corporates across different business verticals as the Business Manager.

'Bode Maxwell-Akinyemi is passionate about leading the next generation of African Tech Talents, thereby bridging the cost of talent acquisition for startups and solving competency gap ahead of the predicted Africa's talent dearth by bootstrapping an ecosystem of promising techies at Font, a talent accelerator that helps young Africans learn in-demand skills through real-life portfolio and project based solutions.

He volunteers as a Climate Reality Leader, United States, TEDx Organizer, Global Youth Ex-Ambassador for Theirworld, UK and United Nations SDGs Campaigner for the World’s Largest Lessons.