Zaccheus Gbenga

Operations and venture-support professional with experience helping executives, founders, and cross-functional teams turn priorities into coordinated delivery. Currently manages multiple venture-support programs at Innov8 Hub, working across participating companies, mentors, technical specialists, program partners, and internal teams. Experienced in maintaining work plans, action trackers, risk records, decision logs, and reporting systems that give leadership a clear view of progress, delays, and decisions required.

Previously supported the MD/CEO of FGN Power Company with executive coordination, meeting preparation, briefing materials, decision tracking, and stakeholder follow-up. Also coordinated more than 30 staff across logistics, warehousing, customer support, human resources, and business operations at TollyClassic Delivery.

Ventures Manager at Innov8 Hub (2025-07 – Present)

• Coordinate multiple startup, innovation, and research commercialization programs from application assessment and onboarding through implementation, progress monitoring, and post-program follow-up.
• Support more than 54 founder teams in clarifying business priorities, testing assumptions, identifying delivery barriers, and planning the next stages of product and commercial development.
• Conduct structured progress reviews with founders to assess milestones, delayed activities, immediate priorities, risks, and support requirements.
• Translate program and leadership priorities into work plans, schedules, responsibilities, deliverables, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain founder trackers, action logs, risk records, assessment tools, mentor records, program schedules, and reporting documents.
• Coordinate founders, mentors, facilitators, technical specialists, institutional partners, and internal teams who do not report directly to one another.
• Identify execution gaps and dependencies, follow up with the responsible parties, and escalate matters that require management or partner decisions.
• Prepare briefing materials, progress reports, meeting notes, program updates, concept notes, and institutional correspondence.
• Source and assign mentors and technical specialists based on the sector, stage, and immediate needs of participating companies.
• Coordinate interviews, workshops, bootcamps, expert sessions, and founder-support activities.
• Support founders in reviewing business models, operating structures, market-entry plans, product requirements, pricing assumptions, and implementation risks.
• Represent Innov8 Hub in meetings with government institutions, development organizations, universities, program partners, and private-sector organizations.
• Document feedback, implementation challenges, and program lessons to improve future delivery.

Founder & Strategic Lead, Ecosystem Development at NortheHub (2024-05 – Present)

Part-time and voluntary leadership role

• Built NortheHub into a community of more than 380 founders, students, professionals, and ecosystem participants.
• Developed the organization's approach to founder support, community programs, mentor mobilization, partnerships, and technical services.
• Lead founder-pipeline development, community engagement, ecosystem mapping, and institutional partnership discussions.
• Develop program concepts, implementation plans, and operating structures for founder development and entrepreneurship education.
• Coordinate communication, stakeholder follow-up, and volunteer participation across a distributed community.
• Support emerging founders in clarifying priorities, strengthening operating models, and accessing mentors, institutions, markets, and technical expertise.
• Developed the proposed organizational and governance structure for NortheHub's leadership and future campus operations.
• Support planning for physical operations, program delivery, revenue activities, and external partnerships.

Technical Assistant to MD/CEO at FGN Power Company Limited (2024-06 – 2025-01)

• Supported the MD/CEO with executive coordination, meeting preparation, briefing materials, action tracking, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Prepared concise summaries and background information required for meetings and executive decisions.
• Documented discussions, decisions, assigned responsibilities, and follow-up actions.
• Tracked outstanding matters and followed up with internal and external stakeholders until updates were provided.
• Supported information flow between the Office of the MD/CEO, technical teams, government-related institutions, and external organizations.
• Interfaced with representatives of Siemens Energy, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, electricity distribution companies, and electricity generation companies.
• Helped coordinate priorities involving stakeholders with different responsibilities, timelines, and operating requirements.
• Protected the integrity and confidentiality of information handled within the executive office.
• Identified matters requiring the MD/CEO's attention and separated them from issues that could be resolved through routine follow-up.

Growth Operations & Business Development Advisor at TollyClassic Delivery (2025-06 – Present)

Part-time advisory engagement

• Collaborate with leadership to translate operational priorities into clearly defined workflows, responsibilities, approval points, escalation routes, and implementation requirements.
• Support organizational expansion planning across four states by assessing staffing, customer opportunities, operational readiness, and execution requirements.
• Coordinate business requirements across management, operational departments, technology developers, designers, and service providers.
• Support the design of an integrated operating platform covering merchant onboarding, order management, warehousing, dispatch, customer support, rider operations, delivery confirmation, partner remittance, and finance.
• Convert operational problems and management decisions into detailed product and process requirements for development teams.
• Review work completed by designers and developers and coordinate feedback from relevant departments.
• Maintain visibility over implementation priorities, dependencies, outstanding decisions, and unresolved operating issues.
• Help define user roles, access permissions, handover procedures, reporting requirements, status flows, and escalation arrangements.
• Support leadership in improving organizational coordination, service delivery, and internal accountability.
• Conduct market and industry research to support customer targeting, service expansion, and commercial positioning.

Venture Capital Analyst Intern at Global Ventures (2023-06 – 2023-08)

• Screened 12 startups operating across Africa and the Middle East.
• Assessed founding teams, markets, traction, competition, scalability, business models, and investment risks.
• Prepared structured screening notes and research materials used in internal investment discussions.
• Contributed to one company progressing further in the investment process.
• Worked within a remote and internationally distributed investment environment.

Corporate Finance Analyst at TagByOui Capital (2024-04 – 2024-07)

• Conducted market and industry research to identify opportunities, risks, and competitive developments affecting African ventures.
• Supported analysis of companies, markets, and growth opportunities.
• Prepared reports and presentations for internal decision-making.
• Translated detailed research into concise commercial and investment information.

HP Tech Ventures Remote Extern at HP Tech Ventures/Paragon One (2023-11 – 2024-01)

• Conducted market and industry research to identify opportunities, risks, and competitive developments affecting African ventures.
• Supported analysis of companies, markets, and growth opportunities.
• Prepared reports and presentations for internal decision-making.
• Translated detailed research into concise commercial and investment information.

Human Resources & Business Development Manager at TollyClassic Delivery (2022-05 – 2025-06)

• Coordinated more than 30 staff and operators across warehousing, logistics, last-mile delivery, customer support, human resources, and business operations.
• Supported recruitment, onboarding, role clarification, team structuring, internal communication, and performance follow-up.
• Introduced clearer routines for reporting, task ownership, issue escalation, and communication between departments.
• Worked with team leads to identify service-delivery gaps, assign responsibility, and track corrective actions.
• Coordinated work between departments whose outputs depended on one another, reducing unclear handovers and missed information.
• Supported staff development through structured feedback, performance discussions, and clarification of expectations.
• Prepared management updates covering staffing, operations, customer-service matters, and areas requiring leadership attention.
• Supported business development, market assessment, customer-opportunity identification, and expansion planning.
• Handled sensitive staff, performance and operating information with appropriate discretion.

Graduate Assistant at Veritas University (2022-08 – 2024-08)

• Supported faculty members with teaching preparation, research, academic coordination, and student-facing activities.
• Assisted with entrepreneurship-related courses, tutorials, and discussion sessions.
• Mentored students and helped them understand assignments, timelines, and program expectations.
• Supported entrepreneurship competitions, screening activities, judging panels, and student-enterprise programs.
• Coordinated communication between faculty members, administrators, and students.

M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship – Veritas University, Abuja

Master of Business Administration in Sustainability – Nexford University

B.Sc. in Entrepreneurship – Veritas University, Abuja

Diploma in Operations Management – Alison