Leadership

Peter Alfred-Adekeye
Chief Executive Officer

Peter Alfred-Adekeye is the founder, CEO and CTO of Multiven - the global leader in premium multivendor IP network maintenance services, and Pingsta - a collaborative platform for the world's internetwork experts with a core goal of growing mySolvr™ into the world's most comprehensive openly-available repository of validated and organized Internet intelligence.

Peter has over 15 years of technological vision, entrepreneurship and a deep understanding of Internet Protocol networking. Prior to Multiven, he spent five years in Cisco’s $6 billion services organization based in San Jose, California, where he excelled in various technical and non-technical leadership positions. These include leading the Core-Architecture Solutions group which was responsible for all in-depth IOS and IOS-XR software (source-code level), hardware (ASIC-level) and technology concerns raised by Cisco's service provider, fortune 500 corporations, enterprises and government customers worldwide, for all platforms. Peter also served as the escalation point for high-end routers such as the Gigabit Switch Router - GSR 12000, 10000, 7600, 7500 while adding value to Cisco's new flagship Core Routing System - CRS-1 before, during and after first customer shipment. Prior to this, he was in consulting engineering within Cisco’s Advanced Services group in London covering EMEA for strategic service provider clients with network assets in excess of USD$1 billion e.g. AT&T, Level 3, UUNet/WorldCom, Global Crossing, to name a few.

Before Cisco, Peter held various engineering positions at IBM Global Services and AT&T Global Network Services based out of the United Kingdom. On a private note, Peter founded The African Network – TAN, a Silicon Valley headquartered 501(c)6 not-for-profit focused on fostering the growth of entrepreneurship, technology and human capital development in Africa and the African diaspora. TAN has strong affiliations with similar organizations in Silicon Valley such as The Indus Entrepreneurs - TiE and SVASE.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Civil Engineering from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife and has completed executive development education programs in leadership, strategic planning and management, business development and entrepreneurship at Stanford University. He is a certified Kepner-Tregoe Program Leader and a master-troubleshooter

Deka Yussuf
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer

With over ten years of marketing expertise in North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Deka leads Multiven's global marketing organization and is responsible for communicating the company's vision, service products and business marketing strategies to Multiven's customers, channel partners and eco-system stakeholders worldwide while extending the company's brand equity and mindshare globally. She also leads Multiven’s market intelligence, business development and strategic partnership business units. Prior to Multiven, she was involved in brand development, market intelligence and public relations for leading enterprise and consumer companies ranging from Cisco Systems to Diesel Jeans.

Deka was educated in France and England before earning a B.S. degree with honors in marketing from San Francisco State University. She speaks four languages and enjoys running, yoga and pilates in her downtime.