Before founding PaidHR, Seye Bandele’s core experience was in business development, strategy, and marketing. He’d previously held chief of marketing roles at Konga and Yudala and ran a marketing consulting agency alongside Chikodi Ukaiwe (now CEO of Salad Africa). During his consulting days, Bandele worked with companies like Flour Mills and, notably, HR tech competitor SeamlessHR. When I ask about whether his time at SeamlessHR revealed a market gap that inspired PaidHR, Bandele says he’s not ready to speak publicly about that transition.
