Mr. Chris Folayan is a well-established successful serial entrepreneur, mentor, and speaker with over 20 years of C level roles experience in marketing, technology, startups, and corporate companies. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mall for Africa Limited.
He is also the founder and CEO of OCFX Inc. a globally recognized, award winning Software and Web Design Agency serving clients such as SONY, LSI, Cisco, HP, EPSON, TYCO, US Government, Visa, BestBuy, CapitalOne Finance and many other companies. He managed global relations with clients in over 50 countries and multi-million dollar projects. Mr. Folayan graduated from San Jose State University with a BA in Marketing.
Chris founded his first venture at age 7 recycled tires with a group of friends which he ran for 2.5 years prior to attending boarding school in Nigeria. He migrated to the U.S to attend college where he decided to teach himself various programming, design and software languages which he used as a foundation to catapult himself into various high level roles in fortune 500 companies, while pursuing a BA degree in marketing.
After graduating from San Jose State University, he founded and sold several companies globally, while establishing new companies in Africa, USA, Middle East and Asia. Before Chris founded his current venture, the award-winning Mall for Africa and Mall for the World platform, Chris was the Founder and CEO of OCFX Inc a globally recognized silicon valley based, award winning software agency serving and consulting clients such as SONY, LSI, Cisco, HP, EPSON, TYCO, Accenture, CapitalOne, EMC and many others in over 60 countries. Chris has a learn as you grow, thinking out of the box philosophy that drives strategy and business growth.
Chris is also the founder of the Africa Made Product Standards (AMPS) goods standards, which he founded to help companies in Africa develop a standard of quality products and ethics for doing business in Europe and USA. Chris is also the board chairman for the African Diaspora Network which is the largest network of African diaspora in the USA, and a member of the US Nigeria Council. He also serves on several boards and mentors various CEO’s in companies based in Africa.
