About
Name: Adedayo (Kofo) Adebiyi
Nationality: Nigerian
Programme: MBA 2022
Education: Bryant University, Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies, Entrepreneurship
Current role: Product Marketing Manager, Mindstone
Pre-MBA role: CEO, She Leads Africa, Lagos, Nigeria
Tell us about your journey to business school?
Prior to the MBA, I was working in the media industry in Nigeria. I started my career as a TV producer. After a couple of years in the media industry, I decided that I wanted to go into a more startup environment where I could make more of an impact.
Why did you decide to do an MBA and how did you think it would support your future career goals?
Before the MBA, I had had a little bit of an itch to take a break from my career. I felt like there were some gaps in my thinking that I could definitely plug. I had been in one industry for a while, so I was looking for an opportunity where I could accelerate that learning and diversify my thinking. I wanted to invest in myself to be able to kind of elevate my thinking as well as elevate my network.
What made you choose Cambridge?
My choice for Cambridge came from looking for a programme that would allow me to explore 2 specific industries that I was kind of interested in. One was tech, and the other was healthcare. Because I didn’t necessarily know a lot about this space, I wanted an MBA experience to also give me that opportunity to look into healthcare. I was also interested in tech because, in Nigeria, the tech ecosystem is booming, with many start-ups, and there are numerous opportunities to leverage tech to fill gaps in the African ecosystem.
How did your experience on the Cambridge MBA then support your personal and career goals?
In terms of picking opportunities that would help me meet some of the goals that I had pre-MBA, there were so many opportunities, not just at Cambridge Judge Business School, but in the larger university overall. I decided to go with the Healthcare Concentration, and there were so many opportunities that came with that. One thing that I really wanted out of this experience was to be able to work in a completely different environment, in a completely different space. From the start of the programme, I think one thing that I found that is unique is that everyone consciously wants to get to know each other. Well, that’s not something that you find in the real world where people invest the time to get to know you. The Cambridge ecosystem is incredibly experimental and curious. That amazing bubble of the pursuit of knowledge, the pursuit of innovation is something that I think is unique to Cambridge.