Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Ndubuisi Ekekwe is the founder of First Atlantic Semiconductors and Microelectronics, West Africa’s leading embedded systems company. He is a recognized player in the United States semiconductor industry, having developed an innovative microchip and a micro-controller for medical robots. Ndubuisi previously co-designed a generation accelerometer for iPhone and created the company’s first wafer level chip scale package for inertial sensor. 

A US semiconductor industry veteran, he has served on the US National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center Committee, and as Co-Chairman of JPL Financial Group, a California-based financial advisory firm that syndicates capital for projects in Africa. 

Ndubuisi is also the Lead Faculty at Tekedia Institute’s Mini-MBA, a short innovation management program, optimized for business execution and growth, with a digital operational overlay. He is as well, the founder of the African Institution of Technology, where he facilitates the provision of practical education support, encourages the enactment of technology policies, and leads the bottom-up creativity technology in African economies. He recently co-founded Atlantic Americas, an engineering firm, handling major operations in the northern part of Nigeria.

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Ndubuisi holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri; four master’s degrees including a Master of Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, a Master of Science from Tuskegee University, USA, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Calabar. He also holds two Doctorates in Management from St. Clements University and Electrical & Computer Engineering where he specialised in Microelectronics & Medical Robotics Engineering from  Johns Hopkins University, USA. Some of his research work involved the manufacturing of integrated circuits with the application of alternativeenergies, biomedical engineering, medical robotics, and neuromorphic engineering.

Ndubusi has written for the Harvard Business Review and was recently made a selection board member of the $100 Million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme. He is also certified in key fields in technology and has to his name, high-ranking publications, and technical papers named among the leading journals and technologyconferences. He also has two pending patents on Microelectronics and works as a consultant to universities, tech firms, and the World Bank.  

Ndubuisi’s book, ‘Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics, and Policy’ received the IGI Global “Book of the Year” Award in 2010 and he was honoured by the World Economic Forum in 2013 as a Young Global Leader for his professional accomplishments and commitment to society. He also received the IGI Global 2010 “Book of the Year” Award, IBM Global Entrepreneur Award, 2013 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Technology Connoisseur of the Year award, 2018 NYCN Award for Outstanding Leadership, the United States ERC/National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Johns Hopkins University Fellowship.