Richest Nigerian in the United States (US).

Richest Immigrant in the United States (US).

Tope Awotona has been named the richest Nigerian and immigrant residing in the United States of America by Forbes.

The 42-year-old who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and relocated to the US during his teenage years, is the founder and CEO of Calendly, a scheduling software company, and holds a net worth of $1.2 billion.

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According to Forbes, Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings..

He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.