Adedoyin Odunfa
Adedoyin Odunfa is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Digital Jewels Limited, a leading IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Consulting firm. Digital Jewels boasts of presence in nine African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda, with a successful track record of consistent value delivery.
Adedoyin Odunfa has almost 30 years of professional experience spanning Information/Cyber Security, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance, Business Strategy, Business Development, and Capacity Development. She has led many impactful industry initiatives, designed and facilitated numerous training programs, and presented at international conferences and seminars.
Over the past 13 years, Adedoyin and her team have successfully strengthened governance and risk management processes as well as built professional capacity across a wide range of IT-related disciplines by conducting more than 100 implementations of global best practice standards. These standards include the PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), ISO27001 (Information Security Management System), ISO22301 (Business Continuity Management System), ISO20000 (IT Service Management), the ISO45001 (Occupational Health & Safety) as well as frameworks such as COBIT (Control Objectives for Information & Related Technology) for diverse organisations across the public and private sector in Africa including Central Banks, National Switching companies, Government ICT companies, Commercial Banks, e-payment companies, amongst others.
Before Digital Jewels, Adedoyin was Executive Director and Pioneer Practise Leader for Information Systems & e-business Group at Phillips Consulting Limited from April 2000 to January 2008.
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Adedoyin completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science & Economics from Obafemi Awolowo Univerisity, Ile-Ife; and a Master of Business Administration in (IT Management) from the CASS Business School, Barbican Centre, London (formerly City University Business School). She holds the CISA, CISSP, CGEIT, PMP, ITBMC & ISO27001 Lead Auditor certifications.
An IT and GRC expert, Adedoyin is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Initiative for Global Development (IGD), Institute of Directors (IOD), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC) 2 holder and an accredited consultant under the SFIA Foundation (Skills Framework for the Information Age). She also sits on the boards of notable institutions.
In the course of her career, she has received several international awards for herself and the firm including the 2011 Most Outstanding ICT Company in West Africa and the 2020 Cybersecurity Entrepreneur Award.