Dr. Yinka Opeke is a development economist and the founder of Smart Gas with a mission to generate jobs towards the development of Nigeria’s economy.
She graduated from University of Ibadan , Nigeria with a B.Sc. in Geography, and M.Sc. in Geographical and Information Systems . She later obtained M.Sc. in Project Management from Queen Mary University of London. In 2018, Opeke bagged a doctorate degree from Walden University, Minnesota, USA, where she specialised in Entrepreneurship and Organisational Leadership.
My flat mate at that time was also a corps member and she made lovely sandwiches. She would sell them to me at N80, and I would go to work and resell at N120. During my entire year in PH, I never had to touch my NYSC allowance, because my other side hustles were paying the bills. After NYSC, I had saved enough to buy a Nissan Primera. I returned to Ibadan to commence my Masters degree in GIS in 2005.Upon completion of my degree, I moved to Lagos.
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. 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 pioneer such a great idea.In Houston, I joined a few chambers of commerce and before long, I started learning their culture, business terrain, areas of opportunities etc. of the place.
First is the sufficient grace of God. Then the ‘me’ factor, and how I chose to utilise the lockdown. I lost my dad at the onset of the pandemic; I was grieving and the idea was birthed amidst my pain. I poured my energy into developing a business plan, mobilising a team, developing our mobile app, started manufacturing our cylinders, procuring equipment, and the rest is history.
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