Boniface Kayode Alese is a Professor of Information and Cyber Security at the Department of Cyber Security, at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, in Nigeria. He has more than twenty years of experience in Teaching, Research, and Community Service starting as a Graduate Assistant in 1998 and rising to become a Professor in 2014.

Prof Alese holds a PhD degree in Computer Science with specialization in Information and Cyber Security from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria in 2004. He has close to 200 Publications in reputable journals and referred conference proceedings. Prof Alese has Graduated 18 PhD students as a Major Supervisor and another 27 as a Co-Supervisor. He was a Chair occupant of the First Bank of Nigeria Professorial Chair in Computer Science for four years.

Prof Alese is a Registered IT Practitioner and a Member of various associations such as Nigerian Computer Society, IEEE (Computer Science), ISSA, ISACA, Cyber Security Expert Association of Nigeria, ACM, Cyber Peace Foundation, and Cyber Peace Corps.

His Royal Majesty, Oba Dr. Francis Adefarakanmi Agbede Ilufemiloye (Ogidi III), is the 13th Olowa of Igbara-Oke kingdom. A prominent Oba in Ondo State, Nigeria. He was born into a royal dynasty of Ogidi Ruling House through Chief Ezekiel Abiodun Agbede, a retired Police Officer of an outstanding achievements and enviable records of service, and his mother, Mrs. Florence, a successful and prominent trader.

Being a son of a disciplinarian, he grew up as a well-trained child. A man of diverse personality traits who at one time worked as a teacher, administrator, accountant and now a security and intelligence consultant. He has worked in nearly every part of the country and he is a multi-lingual king. He is the Chairman, Crown Continental Limited, (Category A) Security outfit, which is now a household world and a pacesetter in the security outfits in Nigeria till today.

As a hardworking, enterprising, industrious and visionary security chieftain, his company has branches in all the states in Nigeria. This great African has touched the lives of so many people, morally and financially, because he has humanity as his focus. His entrepreneur dynamism has made him president of different business and social organisations, which includes, Northern Zones of the Private Security Companies, He was the Chairman, Screening Committee of Bradley University Council for the whole of black Africa.