Meet The Team

Get to know the experts driving growth, strategy, and transformation at Growth Code.

Managing Partner

Ayo Odufuye

Ayo Odufuye is a seasoned performance management consultant, speaker, trainer, author, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in Nigeria’s Financial Services and Healthcare industries. With a strong background in Business Development and Human Resource Consulting, Ayo specializes in helping organizations and individuals unlock their full growth potential. As the former HR Director at Evercare Hospital, he led the hospital’s people strategy and played a key role in establishing it as a transformative force in Nigeria’s healthcare sector. He is also the founder of 9Worx Industries, the company behind one of Nigeria’s fastest-growing school shoe brands. Ayo holds a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos. His career includes pivotal roles at Stanbic IBTC Bank and over a decade in top-tier investment banking institutions—FBNQuest and Coronation Merchant Bank—where he served as Head of Human Resources for more than three years.

Partner

Yemi Faseun

With nearly 30 years of cross-sector experience, Yemi Faseun is a distinguished HR leader and transformation expert known for driving strategic change, HR service delivery, organization design, and HR transformation—particularly during mergers and acquisitions. Yemi’s academic journey began with a degree in English from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), followed by an MBA and several executive programs from Cranfield University (UK), Lagos Business School, and other global institutions. Renowned as a thought leader and subject-matter expert, he brings deep expertise in HR strategy, manpower planning and resourcing, organizational learning, performance management, succession planning, talent management, and culture and leadership transformation. Yemi has held key leadership roles at top organizations including Arthur Andersen (now KPMG), Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Etisalat (now 9Mobile), FBNQuest Merchant Bank, Globacom, and Seven-Up Bottling Company, where he served as Chief Corporate Services Officer. These roles have shaped his ability to lead impactful transformation initiatives while blending global best practices with local insight.