Lanre Kolade is the founder of Koltronics Nigeria Limited and the Chairman of ConnectedCompute.

Before this he was the Group Chief Executive Officer at CSquared, a pan-African operator of wholesale, 

open-access broadband infrastructure He has over 26 years of experience in the telecommunications industry spanning both Francophone and Anglophone Africa.

Prior to joining CSquared, he was Managing Director of Vodacom Business in Nigeria. He also previously served as Managing Director of Vodacom Business for the West, East, Central, & South-East regions in Africa. He is a graduate of Wits Business School, London Business School, and Obafemi Awolowo University, holding a BSc in Electrical Engineering/Telecoms.

Lanre pivoted CSquared from a purely metro fiber player to long-haul national fiber and subsea powerhouse. He orchestrated the 1st landing of Google's Equiano submarine cable in mainland Africa with the Togo landing, and led CSquared's expansion into the Democratic Republic of Congo.