Built on two principles: listen carefully, execute with discipline.

Kola is an industrial engineer. He has spent his career on the operations side at PepsiCo, Northrop Grumman, and Microsoft, on programs where the schedule was real and a slipped date meant someone downstream absorbed the costs. At PepsiCo he led a 55-person team across engineering, operations, and supply chain, and took the site from the middle of the pack to third out of fifty-six. Through all these experiences, he can look at how work moves through a place and see where it is getting stuck. He also knows that the person running the line usually already knows where to look.

At Northrop he ran a $210M radar modernization portfolio across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain, against defense delivery dates that could not move. At Microsoft he ran global programs across more than fifty markets, which taught him how much of large-company work is spent getting people in different rooms to agree on the same set of facts. More recently he spent time at a New York investment firm on deal pipeline and diligence.

Kola holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Technology Management from Georgetown, and a B.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Morgan State, where he and Olaniyi met in 2009. He lives in [location] with [family]. [Personal interests to come.]

Olaniyi is an electrical engineer. He ran field infrastructure across more than 300 telco sites at Crown Castle, with crews, subcontractors, and equipment spread across several states. He knows what breaks at 6am on a job site, what it costs, and who you call. At BCG and later at Lenovo, he worked on growth and operational improvement inside established businesses and led acquisitions from evaluation through close. That is where he learned that the plan is never the hard part. Getting the people who do the work to believe in it is.

At BCG he worked on cost, pricing, and manufacturing for a chip maker, a payments company, and a foodservice distributor, mostly alongside plant managers and business unit leads. At Lenovo he covers strategy and acquisitions for a $4B segment, which in practice means pricing, channel programs, and product roadmaps as often as it means transactions. Before either, he was chief of staff to a VP of sales and operations at a mid-size Maryland technology firm, leading pipeline reviews and fixing the handoffs between sales and delivery.

Olaniyi holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, an M.Sc. in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering from Drexel, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State. He lives in Manvel, Texas with his wife and their toddler son. He plays and watches soccer, is working his way through Houston's restaurants, and has watched enough Survivor to believe he could win it.