The answer company for Africa.
Our data and insights help you develop a clear perspective on African markets and the disruptive trends, transformations, and technologies shaping the world's fastest-growing continent. We leverage domain expertise & technology to build information products for global businesses and professionals.
Our Products
Data Collection
We empower global businesses and professionals with historical and/or real-time data for decision-making. We ingest, standardise and visualise publicly available and proprietary data needed by finance and policy professionals. A sampling of datasets available to enterprise customers is available Data Catalogue.
Insights
Stears Insights is an indispensable source of information for global finance and policy professionals. Our team of analysts leverage data, analytical models, and sector expertise to answer questions on the future of Africa. Our experts are also available to answer bespoke requests for historical data, indices, reports, whitepapers and briefs to inform intelligent decision-making.
Custom Research
Our specialists leverage macroeconomic and financial data, analytical models, and data collection tools to answer research questions on the future of Africa. We provide historical data, indices, reports, whitepapers and briefs to inform investment and policy decisions.
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Our Clients
Our clients span a range of industries and sectors from state governments to development organisations.
Team
Get to know the people at Stears
Preston Ideh - CEO
Preston Ideh is the CEO of Stears. Preston graduated from the LSE and is deeply passionate about technology & data. He previously worked as a finance lawyer at Linklaters, one of Europe's elite Magic circle firms, where he specialised in structured finance and leveraged finance. He also worked at British Petroleum in the M&A team.
Foluso Ogunlana - CTO
Bode, the CTO, is an experienced software engineer with 7+ years of experience developing software applications. Bode graduated from Imperial College London and completed his MSc at the University of Oxford. Bode worked as a blockchain engineer at Consensys in London. Bode also worked at Brainlabs, London, where he developed data-intensive applications.
Hannah Kates - Head of Product
Hannah is the Head of Product at Stears. She has experience in product development, urban planning, and environmental engineering, focusing on data analysis and data products. She worked as a Product Manager at the New York City Department of City Planning, managing a portfolio of public data explorer tools to increase transparency and modernise service delivery.
Abdul Abdulrahim - COO
Abdul, the COO, manages our operations team. He is a data scientist and technology lawyer with previous experience at the World Bank. As part of his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, he completed projects on machine learning for natural language tasks. Abdul has also acted as an advisor to the UK Parliament on data and machine learning by the tech industry.
Fadekemi Abiru - Editor In Chief
Fadekemi Abiru is an economist and the Editor in Chief at Stears Insights. She previously worked as a U.K. government economist focused on data and is an experienced researcher and writer with a BSc. in Economics from the University of Bristol and an MSc. in African Development from the London School of Economics.
Michael Famoroti - Head of Intelligence
Michael Famoroti leads our Intelligence team. He holds a BSc and MSc in Economics from the LSE. He spent the last few years identifying data gaps in the market as the Chief Economist at Vetiva Capital, an Investment Bank in Nigeria. He is the editor of two books, "Pathways to Shared Prosperity in Nigeria" and "The Art of Central Banking in Nigeria", authored by Dr Temitope Oshikoya.
Ugonna Iheme - Advisory Lead
Ugonna Iheme is the Advisory Lead at Stears. She has experience consulting for clients in the public and private sectors. Her experience at PwC with the private sector ranges from transaction-level advisory projects to industry level advocacy engagements. She has also worked with various public sector organisations to identify and bridge operational and strategic gaps.
Yvette Dimiri - Head of Subscriptions Growth
Yvette Dimiri is the Head of Subscriptions Growth at Stears. Yvette is a digital strategy professional with 7+ years in media. She brings user research experience and a commitment to experimentation to achieve commercial outcomes. Yvette was previously Head of Audience Engagement at BusinessDay, Nigeria's oldest business daily, where she led the newsroom transition into digital content distribution and reader revenue.
