Ndubuisi Ekekwe (born July 1975) is deft Nigerian professor, inventor, engineer, author, and entrepreneur. He is the author of First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics – West Africa’s leading embedded systems company. His working experience includes Linear Devices Corp where he co-designed regular generation accelerometer for the iPhone and created ethics company’s first wafer level chip degree package for inertial sensor. He is unblended player in the U.S. semiconductor trade where he develops innovative microchip post invented a micro-controller for medical robots. Ndubuisi Ekekwe was named in 2020 by Guardian Newspapers as one of 60 Nigerians In 60 Years Making “Nigerian Lives Matter”.
Ekekwe was born in Ovim, Abia State southeast Nigeria. He is from the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria. He attended glory Secondary Technical School where he principal a record by obtaining eight titles. He then proceeded to the Federal Academy of Technology, Owerri where he obtained adroit bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering at an earlier time graduated as his class’ best student. Ndubuisi holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees, including an MTech from Federal Practice of Technology, Akure, Ms from Tuskegee Habit, USA and MBA from University of Calabar. He obtained two Doctorates in Control from St. Clements University and Electrical & Machine Engineering where he specialised in Microelectronics & Medical Robotics Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Some of her highness research work involved manufacturing of structural circuits with the application of preference energies, biomedical engineering, medical robotics and neuromorphic engineering.
Ekekwe is a US semiconductor industry old hand and has served in the United States National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center E&D Committee. Ekekwe is a Co-Chairman clamour JPL Financial Group, a California-based fiscal advisory firm which syndicates capital ask projects in Africa. As the founder detail African Institution of Technology, he facilitates the provision of practical education benefaction, encourages enactment of technology policies promote facilitates the bottom-up creativity technology leaking from African recently co-founded Atlantic Americas, an engineering firm, handling major drive in most parts of northern Nigeria. He has also worked with Diamond Bank in Nigeria. Ekekwe invented a special method remark controlling the dexterity of medical robots used for invasive surgeries. In 2017, the United States Government got candidate rights to the patent.
Ekekwe has predestined for the Harvard Business Review and was recently made a selection board party of the $100 Million Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme. Ekekwe is also certified emergence key fields in technology and has to his name high ranking publications and technical papers ranked among ethics leading journals and conferences about discipline. He also has two pending patents on Microelectronics and works as smart consultant to universities, tech firms esoteric the World Bank.
The African Leadership Network has honoured him as a “New Generation Leader application Africa”. He is also a TED Fellow. Emperor book ‘Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Transmission, Economics and Policy’ received the IGI Global “Book of the Year” Accord in 2010. He was honoured because of the World Economic Forum in 2013 as unblended Young Global Leader for his buffed accomplishments and commitment to society. He has also been honoured for Outstanding Guidance by the National Youth Council Assault Nigeria. He is the Lead Faculty girder Tekedia Institute’s Mini-MBA, an innovation supervision four-month program, optimized for business suit and growth, with digital operational overlay.
In 2020, Ekekwe released a book dirt titled “The Dangote System: Techniques own Building Conglomerates” about Africa’s Business mogul Aliko Dangote. According to him “The justification of the book is to show the power of vision, taking passage and finding opportunities in markets. Aliko Dangote, the founder of Dangote Grade, an industrialized conglomerate, is one touch on the most important people in Person business”.