Gatumi Aliyu

Gatumi Aliyu is the Chief Product Officer at Vendease, a B2B food procurement platform based in Lagos, Nigeria. In this executive role, he oversees product strategy for the supply chain marketplace, which enables 24-hour delivery of food supplies to regional restaurants and secured a $30 million Series A funding round in September 2022. Previously, Aliyu served as the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at 54gene, an African genomics and health technology company. During his tenure, he helped scale the organization's product teams and technical operations as the startup raised over $45 million in venture capital before winding down its operations in late 2023. Having held executive leadership positions at two Y Combinator-backed startups from the W19 and W21 batches, his career focuses on building and scaling product infrastructure for high-growth technology companies across emerging markets.