In this Celebrity 10Q (10 Questions) interview, Afroterminal is very proud to feature Tom Ilube, the CEO of Garlik and Chairman of the UK Technology Strategy Board’s Network Security Innovation Platform.

Brief Bio

Tom Ilube (46) is Chief Executive of Garlik, the VC-backed online identity management company with over 250,000 customers and offices in London and New York. Garlik was founded by Tom in partnership with Mike Harris, the founding CEO of Egg plc. Garlik’s advisors include Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, who is leading, with Tim, the open data initiative of the UK Government.

In recognition of its potential global impact, Garlik was selected as a World Economic Forum, Davos 2008 Technology Pioneer, and Tom was invited to attend and present on identity management at the annual WEF meeting in Davos as well as the summer meeting in china.

Tom is Governor/Trustee of three Academies and is currently creating a new Academy in Africa for gifted and talented young people.

Q1. Tell us a bit about your early years and growing up in Nigeria?

I grew up in Nigeria, the UK and Uganda…..

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