, she talks about her journey into entrepreneurship and how the death of her parents 11 months apart birthed Smart Gas, among other issues.My journey as an entrepreneur started during my NYSC days in Port Harcourt. Upon completion of my undergraduate degree from the University of Ibadan in 2004, I was posted to Rivers State and I served in Panalpina Logistics.
In 2006, I was employed by Zenith Bank and my co-workers became my main clients. They loved my pieces and would give me postdated cheques against the next payday. A few months after, I started traveling to London to shop for corporate outfits from Zara, Primark, H & M, Next, and I sold them all within the bank.
In 2014, I explored the possibility of establishing another income stream since I had pretty much stabilised my brand consulting business and my team members were competent enough to run daily operations. After much research, I established Drape Kings, an events decor company. In 2016, I moved to the US, continued with the gele business but soon had to re-strategise because I was in a different country with different types of opportunities and peculiarities. However, when I look at the inventions and reinventions that have taken place in the easy-to-tie gele industry, I couldn’t be more proud to have pioneered such a great idea.
I am also a Managing Partner at TEXA Property Group, a U.S. registered Houston based company focused on empowering individuals through real estate investments in Texas. You said your focus would be to supply adult diapers and bed mats to community hospitals for their older patients, but in Nigeria there are very few old peoples’ homes …