Olukayode Adebayo is an innovator at the intersection of creative industries, technology, and market development based in Ibadan, Nigeria. He is one of our founding board members and the head of our Membership Committee.
Current Projects
Olukayode is the founder and CEO of Ckrowd, a talent outsourcing and hiring agency connecting African music industry professionals to global opportunities. Ckrowd’s main product is a proprietary web platform that promises to change how global creative industry professionals are verified, trained, and matched with opportunities through AI and blockchain technology. Before his decision to start Ckrowd, he had been president of Kayode Adebayo Media (KAM) Africa, special adviser to the head of Chancery of the Nigerian Embassy in China, and the convener of the African Music Festival (AMFEST) Expo.
As the head of ACA’s membership committee, his duties include determining an appropriate membership structure for the network; creating membership criteria that would attract new members and also ensure that existing members derive valuable benefits from their membership; and identifying new members who might be willing to join the network in the near future. Furthermore, as he is in charge of ACA’s secretariat in Nigeria, his duties also involve handling our correspondences, coordinating our media team, and liaising with our public relations partners.
Areas of Expertise
Olukayode is interested in, and has been a resource person to organizations and a delegate to industry conferences in the areas of creative industry technology innovation, global market development strategy, cultural enterprise scaling, music industry digitalization, and policy & regulatory framework development.
What’s Next
Olukayode firmly believes that the African music industry in particular and the African creative industry in general have the potential to dominate the globe by as early as a decade from now. Thus his mission is to continue to use Ckrowd to position music industry professionals in Africa for global opportunities through trainings and the power of community. One of his goals for Ckrowd is to train 50,000 African music professionals to be global professionals by 2026.
As a board member of the ACA, Kayode hopes to expand the scope of the network and make it a truly pan-African network that will have members from East, West, North, and South of the continent as well as from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone parts of the continent. As the manager of the secretariat, he also hopes to create a secretariat that is proactive to opportunities both within the continent and outside in order to help achieve the network’s goals.
