Ade Ajibulu
BA, MPhil Managing Consultant , United KingdomAde Ajibulu has over 30 years’ experience in communications. In addition to business modelling and strategy, Ade is also an expert on regulation, previously for Ofcom and now as a consultant.
Ade Ajibulu is a highly experienced regulatory economist and business strategy analyst with over 30 years’ experience in the telecoms sector.
Ade began working in telecoms as a Senior Consultant for Analysys Ltd., after completing an MPhil at Cambridge University, and advised a wide range of commercial and public sector organisations. Ade was responsible for project management and worked on universal service demand forecasting, regulatory economics and business planning issues.
Subsequently at Ofcom, Ade led the economic analysis in many of Ofcom’s key projects on spectrum, in particular auctioning spectrum for mobile communications. He also worked on wider competition issues in the mobile sector.
Since 2011, Ade has been working as an independent consultant in these same areas, for example: analysis of business models and socio-economic benefits for 5G use in the EU; analysis of universal service fund and costs in Liberia and Malawi; advising on spectrum management strategy and auction policy in Pakistan, Kenya and Botswana; and assessing policy options to increase affordability of mobile broadband in South Africa for the World Bank.
Education
Cambridge University, UK
- BA – Economics
- MPhil – Economics
Other team members
David Conn
Managing ConsultantDavid is a senior finance professional with over two decades of experience in the telecoms sector. He is a specialist in business planning, forecasting, financial modelling and valuation in support of spectrum valuation and strategy projects.
Nick Fookes
Managing ConsultantNick is a telecoms, media and tech veteran with 30 years of experience in M&A, strategy, spectrum auctions, and public policy development and advocacy, across developed as well as emerging markets.
Dave Tanner
Managing ConsultantDave Tanner is an highly experienced senior engineering professional with 30 years of specialist technical and operational expertise in telecoms, specifically, wireless (2G-5G/ WiFi/ IoT), fibre and satellite.