Jeremy Doutte
Jumia
TUNDE KEHINDE AND RAPHAEL AFAEDOR EXITS JUMIA AS CO-CEOS
Friday, January 31, 2014Omoba
Raphael Afaedor and Tunde Kehinde, co-CEOs of Jumia
Nigeria, Rocket Internet’s largest online store in Africa, have exited the
company and have been replaced by Nicolas Martins and Jeremy Doutte.
Jumia co-founder Raphael Afaedor took over reins of
the ecommerce startup mid 2012 with multimillion investments from Berlin-based
Rocket Internet. 3 months later, following a controversial merger,
Harvard Business-trained Tunde Kehinde emerged a co-Managing Director.
Both execs have helped build the startup into one
of Nigeria’s leading online retailer with a reported $50 million dollars in
investments from foreign VCs.
Going by the former
Diageo exec’s LinkedIn page, he has founded a new company called NewCo, a
player in the logistics space.
New entrant Nicolas
Martins, a 3-year McKinsey & Co senior engagement manager, began working in
the Lagos-based Jumia warehouse August last year while his partner Jeremy
Doutte was drafted from Jumia’s sister company in Egypt.
Tunde Kehinde has been tipped to launch a logistics company called A-Post. Sources
inform us that A-Post has already begun to operate and handles delivery
logistics for DealDey and other
startups
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