Ms. Funke Opeke, is founder and CEO of MainOne. MainOne is a broadband infrastructure services provider that built West Africa’s first privately owned submarine cable system interconnecting Lagos, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana; and Seixal, Portugal in 2010. In January 2015, the company launched operations of MDXi – Nigeria’s largest commercial Tier III data center, and in Nov 2015, it added a submarine cable extension from Lagos into Cameroon. The company continues to expand its network reach across West Africa with additional submarine and terrestrial fiber builds, and with the development of new data centers, in Nigeria, Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire.