Mr. GANIYU ADEMOLA DADA, B.SC., MBA
He is an International Trade Specialist that is leveraging finance to supply critical industrial machines and equipment to qualified African governments and importers. A former banker from Nigerian, Mr. Dada graduated from the University of Illinois, Circle Campus with a B.Sc. in accounting in 1978 and later obtained his MBA from Roosevelt University in 1982.
After his MBA, Mr. Dada trained at Control Data Institute in COBOL, RPG, Assembler and Fortran Languages. He later trained as an Oracle Applications Consultant and worked in this capacity with Computech Inc., a renowned IT consulting company in Detroit, Michigan.
He became the president of a USA/Nigeria joint venture organization in 1983 for a five year project in Ajaokuta Steel Company in Nigeria and stayed in Nigeria from 1983 to 1993.
He started Kofa International Company in 1992 and his first office was located on 6 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago where he was until the building was converted to a condominium complex and later moved to the present location at 28 East Jackson Blvd in Chicago. Since 1992 he has helped many American companies to do successful businesses in Africa in the areas including but not limited to; International Trade, Consulting, Project Development, Project Identification, Trade, and Development Finance Facilitator.
Mr. G. Ademola Dada frequently travels to Europe and Africa in developing markets and finding ways to create market for American products abroad and the same for African products in the U.S.A.
He started exporting U.S.A. goods to London and France in 1984 and later to Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. He was part of the historic mission by U.S.D.A. to four African countries with the leading US companies to Senegal, Morocco, Ghana and Nigeria in 2000-2001 to promote products from the USDA to Africa. He has since gone to many other Trade Missions to Africa.
Since then as the President of Kofa International Company he has been taking American companies and banks to Africa quarterly and has been very effective in using EXIM bank programs to facilitate exports to Africa while helping African companies to build capacities and have access to low cost, short and medium term facilities that are usually non-existing in Africa for development and if it exist, are very expensive.
He is a member of the following organizations: Corporate Council in Africa; Chicago land Chamber of Commerce, Naperville Chamber of Commerce, Black Journalist; Black Data Processing Association and World Trade Center.
He is a board member of many organizations in the city of Chicago Illinois and he is married with 4 children.
