PROFILE
IREDUMARE OPEYEMI OJENGBEDE: THE LAWYER REDEFINING THE BUSINESS OF AFRICA’S CREATIVE ECONOMY
In an era when the boundaries between law, technology, entertainment and entrepreneurship are rapidly disappearing, Iredumare Opeyemi Ojengbede has carved a distinctive path as a legal practitioner, music-business executive, technology entrepreneur, intellectual-property specialist and creative-industry strategist.
For more than a decade, Ojengbede has built a career around one central idea: that Africa’s creative talent must not only be celebrated but properly structured, protected, and commercially rewarded.
From law and technology to Nigeria’s rapidly expanding digital music industry, his professional journey has placed him at the centre of conversations shaping the future of Africa’s creative economy.
FROM LAW TO THE MUSIC BUSINESS
Ojengbede’s journey is remarkable because he did not approach entertainment merely as an observer or conventional legal practitioner. He immersed himself in the business architecture behind the industry.
His experience spans entertainment law, intellectual property, technology, digital music, content acquisition, licensing, data protection, corporate transactions, and business strategy.
His work in the digital music ecosystem brought him considerable industry exposure, particularly through his time with Boomplay, where he handled responsibilities spanning legal affairs, content acquisition, and other strategic functions.
That experience gave him a front-row seat to the transformation of African music from a largely traditional business into a digital economy powered by streaming, technology, and global audiences.
FOUNDER OF SYNCAL
Beyond his legal and advisory career, Iredumare Opeyemi Ojengbede is the founder of Syncal, a music platform created to participate in the rapidly evolving digital music ecosystem
The platform represents another dimension of his commitment to the intersection of music, technology, and commerce.
Through Syncal, Ojengbede is taking his experience from the legal and corporate sides of the music business into the entrepreneurial space, seeking to contribute to the development of technology-driven solutions for the music industry.
His involvement in Syncal further reinforces a career philosophy that has consistently connected the creative industry with technology, intellectual property, and sustainable business models.
Rather than simply advising those building careers in music, Ojengbede has increasingly positioned himself as a builder within the ecosystem itself.
THE BOOMPLAY CHAPTER
His Boomplay years represented a significant chapter in the evolution of his career.
As part of the platform’s leadership structure, he worked across areas including legal affairs, content acquisition, finance, data protection, and organisational development.
The experience exposed him to the opportunities and challenges involved in building a digital music platform serving millions of users and thousands of African artists.
It also strengthened his understanding of the commercial structures behind music streaming from licensing and copyright to content acquisition and monetisation.
BUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
At Technolawgical Partners, Ojengbede has continued to build on that experience.
The firm represents another dimension of his professional philosophy that African businesses, particularly those operating in the digital and creative economy, require legal practitioners who understand not only the law but also the technology and commercial realities behind their businesses.
He has consequently become a voice in conversations around intellectual property, copyright, digital commerce, and monetising creativity.
In 2023, he was listed as a speaker at the Digital Nigeria International Conference, where he addressed the subject of “Monetizing Creativity: Intellectual Property and Copyright in Nigeria.”
MORE THAN AN ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER
Although much of his public profile has been associated with music, technology, and entertainment law, Ojengbede’s interests have continued to expand.
His professional activities have touched areas including agriculture, entrepreneurship, investment, technology, and emerging areas of law.
His entrepreneurial activities demonstrate a willingness to apply technology and structured business thinking beyond the entertainment industry.
A SCHOLAR WITH AN EYE ON THE FUTURE
Ojengbede’s intellectual interests have also continued to evolve.
His academic work in Space Law has taken his professional horizon beyond entertainment and technology into the emerging legal architecture surrounding private participation in the global space economy.
This reflects the breadth of his intellectual interests and his willingness to engage with emerging industries before they become mainstream.
AUTHOR AND INDUSTRY EDUCATOR
Ojengbede is also an author and contributor to the intellectual development of Africa’s music business.
He is associated with music commerce in Africa, a publication examining the complex structures behind the continent’s music industry.
His work reflects his long-standing belief that Africa’s music industry requires more than talented artistes; it needs professionals who understand the business structures, rights, markets, and commercial mechanisms necessary to sustain global success.
A CAREER BUILT AROUND POSSIBILITIES
Perhaps the most revealing aspect of Ojengbede’s career is his refusal to remain confined to one professional box.
He began as a lawyer.
He moved deeply into entertainment and digital music.
He became involved in technology and intellectual property.
He took on senior responsibilities in the music-streaming ecosystem.
He founded Syncal, taking his experience from the music business into entrepreneurship.
He built an advisory platform around the intersection of law and technology.
He has continued to explore emerging fields, including agriculture and space law.
That trajectory tells the story of a professional who sees law not simply as a profession but as an instrument for creating and protecting opportunities.
For Nigeria’s creative economy, professionals such as Iredumare Opeyemi Ojengbede represent an increasingly important bridge between talent and structure.
Artists create the music. Entrepreneurs build platforms. Investors provide capital. But without effective contracts, copyright protection, licensing structures, intellectual property management, and commercially sound strategies, much of the value generated by creativity can remain unprotected.
Ojengbede’s career has largely been about addressing that gap.
His story is, therefore, bigger than that of an entertainment lawyer.
It is the story of a Nigerian professional navigating the changing relationship between law, technology, music, creativity, and enterprise.
From digital music to intellectual property, from Boomplay to Syncal, from technology law to entrepreneurship and emerging fields such as space law, Iredumare Opeyemi Ojengbede is building a career around the conviction that Africa’s next generation of wealth will come increasingly from its ideas, creativity, technology and intellectual capital.
