John is a result-oriented social entrepreneur and an educator with years of experience in project planning and management. He has spent the past few years of his life formulating winning managerial, implementation and monitoring strategies that are robust for various EdTech Businesses that yield 110% profit, while ideating and piloting solutions to the biggest educational problems facing vulnerable communities.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Foris labs, a virtual science laboratory brand that he started building in the middle of a pandemic that employs the power of the metaverse to supercharge the learning journey of science students in Nigeria. This startup has grown to be listed as one of the top three edtech startups in Nigeria by the Global Edtech startup awards in 2021 and got him named the global first-place prize champion at the Stanford Centre for Longevity Design Challenge in 2021 (the first black person to win this prestigious award) after beating innovations from big universities including Harvard Kennedy College, Kings College London, Northwestern University etc in the global innovation competition.

He also co-founds Stemnovo Ng, a STEM education company through which he empowers young creatives in rural and semi-urban communities in Southeastern Nigeria by preparing them for the fourth industrial revolution, challenging them to become job creators rather than job seekers by equipping them with the skills in coding, robotics and entrepreneurship through hands-on inclusive training sessions, tech boot camps, group community projects and exhibitions.

John has won the Teacher achievement award of the US Embassy in Nigeria 2019 & 2020; Airtel Touching Lives Winner; Fellow, Creative Enterprise Hub, Lagos; Fellow at the biggest incubator for edtech innovators in Africa – Injini Africa; Winner, Injini West Africa pitch day competition; HeforShe Champion Awardee of the British High Commission in Nigeria; West African Citizens choice awards 2018; Regional Universities Forum Top 20 Young African Innovators Award 2022.