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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.
As E.D (finance) of SAS Textiles, she had oversight of the growth of the business from a one room shop to one of Nigeria's leading textile retail-store chains.
As COO SAS Textiles, she oversees the day to day running of a successful indigenous trading concern raised on the values of integrity and excellent customer service.
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.