Lanre Ajakaiye

Idrees "Lanre" Ajakaiye,  Founder of 25 Bough, a commercial, mixed use development taking a blighted building and turning into a development of community empowerment. 

Lanre follows his passion for building youth, family, and sports combining with brand strategy and business savvy as the mind behind events below, such as The New England Family Fun Festival (across 50k sq ft) which brought over 6,232 people, helping build the brand and movement of R.I.S.E. Women's Leadership Conference with wife, Hilina as operations and Executive Director and now, 25 Bough Street. 

Within the Fortune 50, he has been awarded enterprise innovation awards (winning across 35k employees), divisional innovation awards, driven over 1.4MM in leads resulting in 140MM in new premiums with over 1.4B in deposits in domestic and international locations throughout Asia and Latin America. At non-profits, has "awakened" their strategy and operations across people, process and technology paving the way for incredible growth!