Meet Oluwatoyin Bakare is a seasoned entrepreneur, A Certified Fellow Chartered Accountant and an alumnus of several renowned business schools. She also sits on the Board of Several companies and foundations.

She is the COO and executive director of SAS Textiles Ltd, a second-generation family business that is Nigeria’s home of exquisite world-class fabrics and textiles; a business she has overseen from a one room shop to one of Nigeria’s leading textile retail-store chains.

A graduate of accounting , a Fellow of (ICAN), she is an alumnus of Fate Foundation’s Emerging Entrepreneur’s Programme (EEP), where she also serves as the President of the alumni community. She was also a part of LEAP Africa’s Business Leadership’s Program, Lagos Business School’s OMP  and also graduated from  CEIBS and recently did a Business Leadership  Program at Harvard.

She chairs the board of Genesis House – an arm of Freedom Foundation that shelters and rehabilitates disadvantaged women and an associate member of the Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ). 

She is also a wife, mother, public speaker, resilience coach and Pastor who uses her story to empower others.