Founder & Product Leader · Systems Thinker

I find the structural failures others overlook—then design and build the systems to fix them.

Founder & CEO of Tarié, building Africa's first AI-powered governance intelligence infrastructure. Seven years scaling products for 10M+ users across fintech, crypto, automotive, e-commerce, and AI.

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10M+

users reached across 3 regions

7 yrs

scaling products in hard markets

Tarié

founder & CEO, governance AI

Hi, I'm Karenane — call me Karen

Scaling products for 15M+ users—now reimagining governance systems for Africa.

My background is in scaling tech products across West Africa, the Middle East, and North America—financial institutions, crypto, automotive, e-commerce, and AI.

I'm from a small town in the Niger Delta, building for Africa, currently based in Nigeria. I'm open to product, strategy, and design roles.

Career Arc

How the systems thinker got here.

Chapter 01

Work Life

I build products at the intersection of systems thinking, strategy, product, and design. My background is in scaling tech products for over 15 million users across West Africa, the Middle East, and North America—across financial institutions, crypto, automotive, e-commerce, and AI.

From 2020 onward, I layered that with continuous product and design training in UX research, interaction design, design thinking, product strategy, AI/ML, building the practice alongside the career.

Master Digital Product Design: UX Research & UI Design2020
Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products2020
IDF User Experience: The Beginner's Guide2021
Google Professional UX Certificate2022
Google Cloud: Introduction to Generative AI & ML2024

Chapter 02

Education

B.Sc. Political Science, University of Ibadan. The foundation, understanding how systems fail before learning how to build better ones.

In late 2025, I went through the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School joint degree application process. The research it demanded—stress-testing ideas about governance, political economy, and institutional design— became the intellectual foundation for Tarié. The application didn't produce a degree. It produced a company.

Chapter 03 · Now

Current

Founder & CEO, Tarié — Africa's first AI-powered governance intelligence infrastructure.

I started it after asking a question nobody in Nigeria had answered yet: what would governance look like if it was actually designed for the people inside it? That question became a two-sided platform—a citizen-facing app and an AI-powered government intelligence dashboard—built from zero.

Building Tarié is, by definition, changemaking. Nigeria's governance architecture is over 70 years old—inherited, colonial, and never redesigned. Tarié is the first serious attempt to change that at a systems level. That's not a vision statement. That's the actual work.

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