Ayo Sopitan

Ayo Sopitan is the founder and CEO of Metalex Commodities, which delivers carbon-neutral critical metals from Africa to the world. Metalex mines and processes copper and cobalt material and develops its own nature-based carbon capture projects to offset its mining and processing emissions while also using its mine waste to produce bricks for affordable housing.

Prior to Metalex, Ayo held consulting and commodity trading-related roles at Bank of America, Ernst & Young, Accenture, S&P Global, and Open Link Financial over a 15-year career.

He is an investor in over 25 startups and is a member of several angel networks and syndicates.

He holds degrees from Bryant University and New York University and is a fellow at the Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT.