Florence Seriki
Florence Seriki MFR (16 August 1963 – 3 March 2017) was the founder and CEO of Omatek Ventures Plc,[1] the first Nigerian ICT company in Africa to assemble and manufacture computers and computer parts like computer cases, speakers, keyboards, mouse.[2]
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[edit]- Don’t allow Omatek die with Florence Seriki, shareholders urge government, stakeholders
- Seriki, an engineer, until her death on March 3, 2017 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), was one of Nigeria’s pioneers and foremost indigenous Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) that specialised in the manufacturing of computers and other ICT related devices.
- Boniface Okezie, the national coordinator of Progressive Shareholders Association said: “We don’t know the state of the company since the death of the founder. The board headed by Dr. Timothy Farinre as the Chairman should be able to give us reasons.
- Florence Omatule Seriki, started computer trading as a vendor before establishing Omatek Ventures in 1987, as a local computer assembling plant in Lagos. In 1993, she launched the Omatek brand of computers. She later expanded the business by opening a branch of Omatek in Ghana and another branch in Singapore later.
- Florence Seriki: The woman entrepreneur who built a N3.5Bn technology company
- “I don’t have pressure of any kind, I do my work the way I should”.
- I’ve lived a life that’s full
I’ve traveled each and every highway But more, much more than this I did it my way”
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[edit]- ↑ Omatek founder, Florence Seriki, dies at 54 (in en-US). Punch Newspapers (6 March 2017).
- ↑ Fadoju, Tobiloba (2017-03-06). Omatek founder and CEO, Florence Seriki has passed on (in en-US). Techpoint Africa.