Dr. Olufemi Ogunlowo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Outsourcing Limited (SOL), a leading provider of personnel outsourcing, HR solutions, and workforce management services in Nigeria. Since its establishment, SOL has deployed and managed more than 200,000 outsourced employees across the banking, manufacturing, FMCG, logistics, telecoms, and public-sector industries.
Dr. Ogunlowo’s professional background spans engineering, strategy consulting, banking, and large-scale operations management. Before founding SOL, he led post-merger integration projects in the financial services sector as Principal Partner at BMC Consultants Limited. His earlier roles include Structural Engineer, World Bank Project Planning Engineer, Senior Strategy Consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and Assistant Vice President at First City Monument Bank.
He is a First-Class graduate of Civil Engineering and holds a Distinction MSc in Water & Waste Engineering and a PhD from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He has also completed executive programmes at the Strategy School St. Charles Chicago, Cranfield University, and Lagos Business School.
Dr. Ogunlowo is a past President of the Employers Association of Private Employment Agencies of Nigeria (EAPEAN), a Council Member of NECA, and a Member of Nigeria’s National Employment Council. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, the Institute of Management Specialists (UK), and the Association of Outsourcing Professionals. He also serves on the Board of the American International School of Lagos and the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund LMIS PPD.
He is a Knight of St. Christopher, a member of YPO, and an Ambassador of the University of Ibadan at 75.
