JR Farms was founded by Olawale, Rotimi Opeyemi who is also the CEO of JR Farms global operations. He’s a leading agric entrepreneur, recognised young leader in Africa’s agricultural sector and international speaker who has addressed global audience at high level meetings of various institutions such as The Commonwealth, Harvard, Wilton Park, African Union, UN FAO Africa, ILO, Switzerland Government, MIT among others.

Olawale holds a Bachelor and Master Degrees in Religion; he also holds executive certificate in Agribusiness Management Programme from the Lagos Business School and Executive MBA in Food and Agribusiness in Netherlands.

Through his initiatives, he has created several jobs and mentored hundreds of young Africans in Botswana, Cameroon, DRC, Niger, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, and other parts of Africa respectively.