# Founder Bio — Anthony 'Kayode' Odole

**Name:** Anthony 'Kayode' Odole
**Title:** Founder & CEO, AIToken Labs (builder of EmployAIQ)
**Also:** Writes on practical AI adoption at **AI SuperThinkers**
**Headshot:** `../public/anthony.odole.jpg` (also `.png`)
**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/odole/
**Email:** Anthony.Odole@aitokenlabs.com

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## Short bio (≈40 words)
> **Anthony 'Kayode' Odole** is the founder of **AIToken Labs**, where he builds **EmployAIQ**, an AI workforce platform for growing businesses. A former IBM Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect, he brings 26 years of enterprise technology experience to making AI work for real businesses.

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## Medium bio (≈75 words)
> **Anthony 'Kayode' Odole** is the founder of **AIToken Labs** and the builder of its AI workforce platform, **EmployAIQ**. He spent 18 of his 26 years in enterprise technology at IBM as a Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect, leading large-scale technology consulting and digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international organizations across three continents. Today he channels that enterprise experience into making AI accessible to businesses of every size.

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## Long bio (≈150 words)
> **Anthony 'Kayode' Odole** is the founder and CEO of **AIToken Labs**, an enterprise-AI company, and the builder of **EmployAIQ** — the company's AI workforce platform for growing businesses.
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> Anthony brings 26 years of enterprise technology experience, including 18 years at IBM, where he served as a Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect on large-scale technology consulting and digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international organizations across three continents.
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> After leaving IBM in 2018, he spent six years — from 2018 to 2024 — specializing in artificial intelligence, building AI solutions, training AI practitioners, and advising organizations on how to implement AI responsibly and effectively, before founding AIToken Labs in 2024. His focus is deliberately practical: rather than commenting on AI, "I became a builder," creating AI Employees that do real work for small and mid-size businesses. He also writes on practical AI adoption at AI SuperThinkers. Outside of work, Anthony is an avid hiker.

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## Name & style notes for editors
- First reference: **Anthony 'Kayode' Odole**. Subsequent references: **Odole** or **Anthony**.
- "Kayode" is a middle/preferred name shown in single quotes.
- Correct titles: *Founder & CEO of AIToken Labs*; *builder of EmployAIQ*.
- The IBM background belongs to **Anthony personally** — phrase as "former IBM Senior Managing Consultant," never "AIToken Labs was an IBM consultant."
