10 Things You Should Know About Segun Cole, EkoCab Founder

On Wednesday 10th March, a new ride-hailing platform called EkoCab was launched and presented to the public and without much ado, Lagosians simply felt this was an initiative of the Lagos State government itself, infact the name itself suggested this much.

In an interesting twist however to the narrative and arising from the public outcry and lash out at the Lagos State Government which had had just some few weeks before banned motorcycles and tricycles from plying some major highways regardless of the hardship it would and has since caused commuters, founder of the App, Segun Cole took to social micro-blogging platform, Twitter to clear the air on issues unclear to Lagosians.

Before this, not much was known and is still probably known about the man behind the idea who says the idea has been completely bootstrapped from the ground up without any investor’s money, even the Lagos State government!

We dug deep and here’s what we found about him:

Segun Cole is an Independent Board Member of Cabsmart Nigeria, a position he has held since February this year and is also the founder of EkoCab, the ride-hailing platform presently generating quite a buzz around town giving its perceived ownership by the Lagos State Government, a thought he debunks.

Revealing who is and how he came into the entire policy making and transportation affairs of Lagos State, he said in a tweet thread on Wednesday 11^th that he has been a policy consultant on New Mobility to State Governments advising them on how to better Regulate the Industry and proffering solutions.

He continued saying, sometime back 2015, Uber refused to be categorized as a Transport Operator, called themselves a digital App connecting riders and drivers only. They created this messaging Architecture and it was established globally and that was how the whole ride hailing idea came in.

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Here are 5 other things you should know about him:

Before founding EkoCab, he has previously tried his hands on other innovative ideas. He was the Co-Founder of Node Nigeria, a self-acclaimed world leader in communications technology services.

Earlier in his career, he was earlier an Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Modulak resources

He attended Bells University of Technology where he bagged a Business Administration (B.B.A) in the field pf Human Resources and Personnel Administration, graduating with an Upper Credit.

He is a Google Digital Skills certified personnel and also has a certification in Professional in Human Resources.

He possibly has earned some commendation in his professional walk judging by the recommendations available on his LinkedIn page.