CEO/Founder
Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon
Prince Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon,
BSc (Hons)Engr, LLB(Hons), BL, MBA, D.Litt (UniPort), D.Litt (PAU),
DSc(CUAB), DSc(TAFSUED), FNSE, FCS, FCIoD, FCIM, FNIM, FNIMN, FCIA, FEPHM, FNIAE, C.Engr
Prince (Dr.) Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon, is of the Sogbulu and Ogunfayo lineage of Laarun ruling house of Ake in Abeokuta, Ogun State of Nigeria. He is widely recognized for his significant contributions through boardroom management, marketing, investment, law, and engineering , practices. He is a great-grandson of the first lawyer in Nigeria, the father of his paternal grandmother, by name: Christopher Alexander Shapara–Williams. With his versatile professional qualifications in Engineering (UI), Law (Unilag and Law School), Business Administration–MBA (UNIFE), Stockbroking and Finance. Within three years, of his post-graduate degree at UNIFE, he became the executive director of marketing of the ETEX Group of Belgium in Nigerite (Nig) Ltd, at 31 years of age, and has served on many statutory boards, starting from being the chairman of OGBC & OGTV at the age of 37. He was thereafter, the chairman of Ogun State Investment Corporation, and was later, the chairman of Gateway Tourism Corporation, where he pioneered the redevelopment of Olumo Rock in Abeokuta. He also served as a member of the Chief Chris Ogunjobi-led, Ogun State Economic Development Committee. In the Presidency of President Ebele Jonathan, he was a member of the National Heritage Commission and Endowment for the Arts, and served President Buhari, as the sole representative of the South-West in the National Honours Awards Committee, where he is currently still serving in the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in that capacity.
At some times in the past, he was a member of the Nigerian National Think Tank, the secretary to the transition housing sub-committee and a member of the power deregulation sub-committee of the 1999 transition committee of the then incoming government of Senator Bola Tinubu, in Lagos state. Prince Shyllon was, for eight years, the Vice Chairman of Ogun State Economic Summit, under Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s government. He currently serves as the Grand Patron of “Poets in Nigeria” (PIN). He is also the current Grand Patron of Ogun Society of Artists and has served as the president of the Chartered Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, among others.
He has Solely financed the establishment of the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art (YSMA), of the Pan Atlantic University, in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, and he is, still currently supporting its operations, financially.
Prince Shyllon has made substantial contributions, with using his Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF), to promote African Art and Cultural initiatives. He has selflessly donated many significant public monuments to private and public institutions in Nigeria. His efforts have not only enriched Nigeria’s cultural landscape, but has also brought global attention, to African art. As part of this, he has also served as the Vice Chairman of the EYO AGERE of Lagos, from 2010 to 2017.
He currently serves in many local and international institutions, including being Patron and Member of Council, of the Pan African Heritage Museum (PAHM), in Ghana.
He has received many local and international awards, including the: 2019 African Achievers Award at the House of Commons, UK. 2021 and the 2025 Leopold Sedar Senghor Prize for African Cultural Creativity and Impact of the University of Texas, at Austin, USA.
As a global ambassador of African Art and Culture, Prince Shyllon has explored many countries of the world, in extensively sharing his expertise and promoting African heritage on the World stage, covering major cultural heritages in over 72 countries of the World, including being a beneficiary of the USA Department of State’s Foreign Leadership Visitors Program, in 2009.
Prince Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon,
BSc (Hons)Engr, LLB(Hons), BL, MBA,
D.Litt (UniPort), D.Litt (PAU), DSc(CUAB), DSc(TAFSUED), FNSE, FCS, FCIoD, FCIM, FNIM, FNIMN, FCIA, FEPHM, FNIAE, C.Engr