Dare is a veteran banker, technology and management consultant, entrepreneur, and business leader focused on strategies that drive business growth, efficiency, and profit while leveraging
technology and innovation.

He is the CEO of New Usual Ltd., an innovative technology company
with offices in Boston, Lagos, and Toronto.
He currently serves on several boards in Nigeria and internationally either as Chairman or
Director and has served on many industry committees including the National Identity
Management Committee, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Financial System Strategy (FSS)
2020, the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and Banking Industry Shared Services
Committee amongst many others. Dare has consulted within the financial services industry in
Nigeria and Internationally, including Bank of New York Mellon and Liberty Mutual in the United
States, leading a team from MIT Sloan School of Management. He has trained the Central Bank
of Nigeria and the National Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) on Financial Technology
(FinTech) and has assisted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to craft policy
around Distributed Ledger Technologies (Blockchain) and Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin).
Dare is a graduate of MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, holds
an MBA from MIT, Cambridge, USA and finished at the top of the class with a CGPA of 4.9 out
of 5. He was subsequently retained as a Teaching Assistant at the Institute. He attended the 5-
month-long Corporate Strategy program at Harvard Business School and completed the
Advanced Strategic Management program at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Recognized as an
outstanding business leader, he is a member of the Executive Leadership Institute Class of
2015, a 6-months joint program of MIT Sloan, Harvard Kennedy School, and Greater Boston
Chamber of Commerce. He was named one of the 100 Most Outstanding CEOs in Nigeria in 2018
by The Guardian. Dare holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and
Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University. He is a Fellow of the Nigeria Computer Society
(FNCS), Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and an Honorary Senior
Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB).
A happy family man, Dare is a member of Eckankar Clergy, Past President of the Rotary Club of
Lagos, a member of the Arch Klumph Society (AKS) and a Grand Master of the Nigeria Wushu-
Kungfu Federation.