Biography
Patrick Oriyomi (PhD) (born 31 August 1982) is a successful Nigerian businessman and real estate developer in his 40s.
He is one of Nigeria’s highly regarded emerging real estate CEOs with global investments in housing and land.
He has over a decade of experience in the business and has directed transactions totaling over $300 million.
Nigerian Businessman
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| Full name: | Patrick Oriyomi |
| Born: | August 31, 1982 (age 41) |
| Place of birth: | Practice |
| State of origin: | Lagos State |
| Nationality: | Nigerian |
| Couple: | Oriyomi Modupe |
| Job: | Entrepreneur • Real Estate Developer • Author |
| Net worth: | According to estimates |
Early life
Patrick Oriyomi is a native of Epe, a town and Local Government Area (LGA) in Lagos State, Nigeria located north of Lekki Lagoon.
He attended primary school at St Peters African Church School, Oke Aro, Lagos, and continued his secondary education at Ebenezer Senior Secondary School also in Lagos.
He then attended Universal College of Technology, Ile Ife (now The Polytechnic Ile-Ife) where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting. He holds a postgraduate honours degree in Real Estate and Human Capability Development from the Global Financial and Socio-Economic Evolution Network (GSFEN).
He also holds an MBA in Business Administration from the Metropolitan School of Business and Management, United Kingdom (UK).
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Career
Dr. Patrick Oriyomi is a successful businessman under 40, real estate tycoon, entrepreneur, philanthropist and author. He started his career journey in 2008 as the Chief Financial Officer for Mission Support Network Center (MSNC), a registered charity responsible for recruiting, training, placing and managing missionaries for Christian work.
He served the Mission for 10 years as the head of the Cost Control Unit of the Finance Department. During his tenure as CFO, he saved the company over $200 million through constructive cost control techniques and many other achievements before resigning to later establish his own company after a long career.
Contribution; Real Estate Industry, Nigeria
He founded Photizo Properties Limited (a real estate company that specializes in acquiring plots of land and developing project-planned and gated properties, then allocating them to project subscribers) in 2018.
Within 3 years of being in business, the company has gained a lot of recognition for its impact in the Real Estate Industry in Nigeria by acquiring several residential and land properties across Nigeria. Some of their properties include; Grace Ville in Ikegun, Ibeju Lekki Lagos; Oasis Garden in Epe, Lagos; Oasis Court in Epe, Lagos State and The Haven City in Odolewu Epe, Ogun State.
Many people who have been influenced by him and are familiar with his name have described him as a very dedicated, hard-working and extremely focused person. However, his rise to the top of his career has not been a sudden one but has had a bittersweet experience that sums up the stories of his journey to success and to date, he has won many awards for his great achievements over the years.
His relentless drive and desire to empower people around the globe with his story, struggles, mistakes and breakthroughs has created a unique gift for everyone in his new and debut book, Starting Afresh.
Starting Over; A Book by Dr. Patrick Oriyomi
Starting Afresh is a quick read business guide book with only 78 pages. Although the knowledge is shared briefly in the book, it is intended to be useful for all entrepreneurs including working professionals, successful people and fresh graduates who are looking for a place to start or to pick themselves up at a time of crisis and making life career decisions.
In the book, he points out many problems of entrepreneurs, some of which include; The difficulty and inability of many of them in making decisions, they accept to stay in the comfort zone for fear of venturing into a new path into the unknown, fear of losing stable high-paying jobs and other challenging limitations including those who are indebted for years of serving others and cannot find a way to quit their jobs to move further to achieve a much higher career.
Starting Over, A Book by Dr. Patrick Oriyomi
The book also highlights the story of a man named Craig who wasted years of his life by failing to make decisions that could have changed his life for the better and ended up living with regret for years to come. At one point in the story, he laments and wishes he could go back in time to live it all over again and this time differently, knowing the mistakes he made and the comforts and fears that were taken from him and it seems too late to reverse the decision as age is no longer on his side to do many of the things he has long wanted to do.
Now, the only way he can do the best is to use his story to give career advice to young entrepreneurs, employees and business owners who are aspiring to succeed with the time they need to spend on things they need to do as they have learned from his mistakes and experiences.
This book offers a wealth of life lessons and daily practices, a guide to renewing the mind and reorienting the reader, educating them on the importance and how to take bold steps, make decisions and pick themselves up at any given moment to pursue their dreams and nurture their ambitions.
This book is truly a must read, must have, and must be given as a gift to friends, family, loved ones, and to those you want to see win in life. And this book just like the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” that has touched the lives of many readers can just be the master guide to breaking down your financial barriers of the new generation if you follow and practice it.
Starting Afresh will be released in March but you can pre-order it via the included link (patrickoriyomi.com/preorder)
Personal life
Patrick Oriyomi lives in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, with his wife, Modupe Oriyomi, and their daughter, Adeola Oriyomi.
Outside of the professional environment, he enjoys public speaking or motivational speaking, inspiring Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the real estate sector to further improve their skills and ideas to develop the Nigerian real estate sector. He is also known as a Philanthropist. Patrick is a lover of tennis and golf.
Achievements
- Nigeria Achievement Awards 2019 for “Outstanding Achievement in Real Estate”.
- The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) conferred upon him the “Honor Award” for his philanthropic contributions in ensuring that many students in the association who face financial barriers to continue their studies are funded to continue their studies.
- Most Inspirational Employee of the Year 2009 at Mission Support Network
- Mission Support Network’s 2013 Mid-Level Employee of the Year
- 2014 Mid-Level Manager of the Year at Mission Support Network
- AFRICA CEO 40 UNDER 40, awarded in June 2020 by the Young Entrepreneurs International Summit (YEIS)
- OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE REAL ESTATE PERSON OF THE YEAR, awarded in November 2020 by the Nigeria Achievers Awards
- 50 INFLUENTIAL YOUNG GLOBAL LEADERS, September 2020, awarded by the Global Initiative for Good Leadership
- 20 YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE YEAR, November 2020 by Young Entrepreneurs International Summit (YEIS)
- Other honors include; Recognition Award presented to him by Photizo Employee Community as “Most Motivating Boss” in January 2019.
Net worth
Patrick Oriyomi’s net worth has not been officially assessed by Forbes but with his many years in business including real estate assets, he is believed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Perhaps he has done it that way, privately and privately, but surely Forbes will soon make his net worth public.
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