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John Olajide and the education of a businessman
Before he founded Axxess, John Olajide learned commerce in his parents’ Lagos business. His route through Dallas, scholarships and investment in Nigeria suggests those early lessons are still earning their keep.
David Arreaga
David Arreaga is the co-founder and CEO of Ares Materials, a Plano, Texas deep-tech company building AI-designed optical polymers for flexible and foldable electronics. A materials scientist with a Ph.D. from UT Dallas, he turned doctoral research on polymer substrates into a company whose Pylux cover-window and adhesive materials target the next generation of foldable displays. Ares pairs high-throughput experimentation with machine learning to shorten materials development from decades to years, and closed the first trench of a $12M Series B round in 2025.