Husband, father, and irrepressible optimist, Uche Onuora lives at the intersection of arts and technology. He’s a serial technology entrepreneur and aspiring poet who believes in the need for interdisciplinary efforts to synthesize education and technology, because of the potentially beneficial impacts on society. Uche has interests in sustainable entrepreneurial impact, especially via social enterprise.
Uche moved from Abuja, Nigeria to Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada in 2014, to support his young son who is on the Autism Spectrum. He is a Co-Founder of HITCH – an Educational platform linking applied learning to real opportunities for African students and teachers, by providing access to world-class educational videos aligned with local curriculums.
Prior to this, he worked directly for 15 years in the knowledge access and educational technology space in Nigeria, helping to develop the Nigerian Government’s USD$400 million Abuja Technology Village high technology cluster project in 2004.
Uche is a seasoned educational technology entrepreneur and has managed various human capacity development projects including conceptualizing and executing HITCH’s initial customer acquisition, go-to-market strategy, and cultivating its innovation ecosystem of strategic partners.
He developed a comprehensive educational crisis intervention report for the Minister of Nigeria’s capital city Abuja FCT in 2005, and managed vocational training and training support for the first batches of Ex-Niger Delta militants from Nigeria, in South Africa, under the Nigerian Government’s Amnesty Programme in 2010/2011.
Uche is also a Coach with the Conestoga College Venture Lab and the Caribbean Canadian Association of Waterloo Region (CCAWR)'s LiftOff Program for Black Entrepreneurs in Kitchener, Ontario; where given his prior experiences with social enterprises, tech ventures, and management, he coaches and works closely with a lot of early-stage founders and teams.