Bola Lawal
Consultant, Project Manager, and Writer in Houston, Texas
Bola is a Social Entrepreneur who Co-founded Scholarx.co, a social impact Education Finance startup that developed a mobile and web platform that helps African youths access quality education through scholarships, tuition crowdfunding and Small scale intervention loans (coming Q1 '18) The ScholarX app was recently nominated by Apps Africa as Best App in West Africa. Prior to ScholarX, he worked as a Business Analyst with companies such as ConocoPhillips, Accenture and Shell
He’s recently been featured as a Speaker in events in Europe, Africa and the United States and across multiple media platforms, and Pitched in competitions at Harvard and Wharton . Bola graduated from University of Houston with a degree in accounting where he was the Chapter president of Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting Honors Org.) Bola will be joining the Social impact strategy cohort at the University of Pennsylvania in Jan 2018 https://www.businessdayonline.com/social-entrepreneur-bola-lawal-founder-and-ceo-scholarx-speaks-with-businessday/