About us
A strategic business advisory and enterprise development firm empowering businesses globally.
21 Connect Limited is a business advisory and enterprise-development firm established to support SMEs and large businesses in expanding operations, strengthening market presence, and achieving sustainable growth.
We serve as a bridge between businesses and the global marketplace, providing the strategic guidance, market intelligence, and connections needed to succeed in today’s competitive landscape.
A viable and sustainable business connecting infrastructure and platform with capacity to linking and empowering businesses and peoples globally.
To empower businesses to grow, compete, and succeed through practical advisory solutions, strategic linkages, and trade-focused platforms.
To make African businesses accessible globally through efficient networks, strengthened capacity, business support services, viable events, and a sustainable B2B community.
Honesty and transparency in all our dealings
Delivering exceptional quality in every engagement
Building partnerships that drive mutual success
Creative solutions for complex business challenges
Putting our clients' success at the center
Building lasting value for generations
Having built a distinguished career advising global institutions on their most complex technology and risk challenges, she brings that same rigour, network and ambition to the businesses 21Connect serves. Her goal is simple and bold: to make African businesses accessible globally and to ensure they have every advantage they need to Create, Connect and Thrive. 21Connect was birthed to make that vision a reality.
With over 20 years of senior-level experience in cybersecurity, risk management and technology strategy, she brings a depth of technical and strategic acumen that she now applies directly to 21Connect’s mission of empowering African enterprise.
Duronke is a sought-after international speaker at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and gender inclusion in tech. Her talks address the future of the tech workforce, AI governance, digital security and the role of women in breakthrough technologies.
She has served as a Technology ICT SME on World Bank-sponsored projects in Nigeria, including the RUWASSA rural water and sanitation initiative across six Nigerian states, and the GAAP Federal Ministry of Works Road Sector Development project, reinforcing her commitment to technology as a force for development on the African continent.
21Connect works across business advisory, trade and export facilitation, technology enablement and capacity building. Under Duronke’s leadership, the firm supports SMEs and larger enterprises in Agriculture, Mining, Creative Arts, Fashion and Textiles, and Technology, helping them access new markets, forge strategic alliances and build the internal capabilities needed to compete globally.
A core part of 21Connect’s technology offering is bridging the expertise gap: identifying local African talent, reducing dependency on costly international consultants and ensuring businesses have access to the right skills at the right cost. This is not just an advisory principle but a deliberate investment in African human capital.
Foluke serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Netherlands Institutions Alumni Association of Nigeria (NIAAN), a role that places her at the junction of international academic networks and Nigerian professional development. She sits on the Alimosho Local Government Child Protection Committee, working directly with traditional institutions on child welfare issues. She is also a member of the Case Management Committee established by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
These are not honorary positions. They reflect the range of environments in which she is trusted to lead, spanning community councils, federal commissions and international agencies.
Foluke’s professional foundation spans monitoring & evaluation, project management, gender and sustainable development, community engagement, livelihood tracking, and environmental assessment. She holds formal certification in Modern International Facilitation Techniques and has contributed to socio-baseline studies, women’s empowerment programmes, poverty reduction initiatives, and resettlement action planning across Nigeria.
In 2011 she managed the impact assessment of the Eko Loan Scheme under the Lagos State Microfinance Institution (LASMI) and coordinated loan administration for the National Economic Reconstruction Funds (NERFUNDS) on behalf of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Entrepreneurship Development Centre. She has published academic work on women and entrepreneurship in Nigeria and is currently documenting the socioeconomic circumstances of widows, a research effort as much about justice as it is about data.
