The Team

Built for
Institutional
Environments.

Governance experience. Transformation delivery. Execution-focused operators with deep domain credibility in the environments we serve.

The Founders

The People Behind the Platform

Patrick Akori

CEO & Founder

SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) with over 24 years in enterprise agility, financial systems, and technology-led transformation. Patrick leads Upstage’s mission to become Africa’s most trusted assessment platform — blending deep institutional knowledge with a clear commercial vision.

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Jehoshaphat Osuji

COO & Co-Founder

A process-driven technology leader blending ERP systems expertise, product management, and operational discipline. Jehoshaphat translates AI capability into compliant, market-ready assessment infrastructure — ensuring Upstage’s products are not just powerful, but credible and operationally sound.

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Our Values

How We Operate

The principles that govern every product decision, every partnership, and every line of code.

Trust by Design

Every feature, every architecture decision, every product release is evaluated first on one question: does this increase or decrease institutional trust?

Infrastructure First

We resist the temptation to chase use cases before the backbone is solid. Platform depth before feature breadth, always.

Built for Context

We don’t adapt global products for Nigeria. We build from the Nigerian context out — for the bandwidth, the governance requirements, the institutions that exist here.

Execution Focused

We are operators, not just builders. Credibility is earned through delivery — through pilots that work, institutions that stay, and outcomes that can be measured.

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We’re building the team that will take Upstage to national scale. Get in touch.

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Built for Institutional Environments.