Dayo Famakinwa

Dayo Famakinwa is a Chief Product Officer and senior technology product executive with 15+ years of experience leading product strategy, platform transformation, and monetization across SaaS, HR technology, recruiting marketplaces, M&A deal technology, and B2B eCommerce. He has built and led global product organizations spanning Product and UX, partnering closely with CEOs, boards, and executive teams to define multi-year vision, translate strategy into roadmaps and operating cadences, and deliver measurable outcomes across growth, retention, and customer value.

Dayo currently serves as Chief Product Officer at Energage, where he leads product and UX to evolve the company from a single awards business into a unified culture, talent management, and employer branding platform. Prior to Energage, Dayo held multiple product leadership roles at Indeed, including VP of Product, Company Insights and Connections and Head of Product Excellence, where he led a 95-person organization and drove 30% YoY revenue growth to $300MM in Company Connections.

Dayo also spent six years at Datasite and Merrill Corporation in product leadership roles, managing a $15MM budget and leading multi-continent teams delivering $500MM+ annual SaaS revenue outcomes with 30% YoY growth. During this period, he established the company's first AI team and launched capabilities such as AI Redaction and Acquire, reducing sensitive-content redaction time by 80%.

Dayo holds a Master of Business Administration in International Management and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from North Dakota State University. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) through Scrum Alliance.