Mojola Ola, EMBA ’22, is redefining energy access across Africa—and transforming the lives of the people in the country he calls home. As CEO of Grid Crux, Mojola and his team are deploying sustainable energy to unserved and underserved communities with a keen focus on carbon reduction, clean energy generation, and improved access. And he came up with the concept at MIT Sloan—in our Sustainability Initiative ecosystem.

In 2010, Mojola moved back to his native Nigeria from the United Kingdom, where he worked for an oil and gas company. He wanted to make a career in energy, but something was missing for him. Back home, he had an epiphany.

“I realized that so much was not working in the energy sector in Nigeria,” he recalls. “I asked myself ‘How can I do more? How can I make Africa better?’ I wanted to be part of that story.”

Mojola Ola and the Grid Crux team on site.

In 2015, Mojola joined the sales and marketing team at sustainability focused Schneider Electric in Lagos. He was good at bringing in new business and making money for the company, but after seven years, he had a feeling he could use his expertise to do something bigger—something transformational for the people of his homeland. That’s when he turned to MIT.

“I chose to get an Executive MBA to make more impact; I chose MIT Sloan because they’re all about impact. I’m one-thousand percent glad I made that decision.”

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