Biography

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, develops its own nature based carbon capture projects to offset its mining and processing emissions while also using its mine waste to producer bricks for affordable housing.

Prior to Metalex, Ayo held consulting and commodity trading related roles at Bank of America, Ernst and Young, Accenture, S&P Global and OpenLink 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 Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT.