Sam Obi, Founder of SimplifiedIQ, has been honoured with the Technology and Innovation Award at the 2025 CEOs Network Africa Awards, recognising his role in advancing digital infrastructure that strengthens trust, integrity and transparency across Africa’s assessment, certification and compliance systems.
The award recognises Obi’s work in addressing long-standing gaps in secure and verifiable institutional processes. Through SimplifiedIQ, he has developed technology solutions aimed at improving credibility in education, professional certification, workforce hiring and regulatory compliance across the continent.
“This recognition affirms the importance of building systems that people can trust,” Obi said. “Innovation is not just about speed or scale; it is about integrity. At SimplifiedIQ, we are focused on creating infrastructure that makes outcomes defensible, verifiable, and fair across Africa.”
Founded with a clear mission to design and scale tamper-proof, automated, and verifiable systems, SimplifiedIQ has emerged as Africa’s integrity infrastructure for assessments, certifications, and compliance. The company addresses long-standing issues such as manual examination processes, inconsistent grading, slow certification workflows, and limited traceability that often lead to disputes and inefficiencies.
SimplifiedIQ’s end-to-end ecosystem ensures secure exam delivery with identity verification, automated and explainable grading across multiple formats, traceable audit logs, and verifiable digital certificates. Its solutions include tamper-proof examination delivery, auto-grading for essays, MCQs, coding challenges, and paper-based exams, compliance documentation systems, and audit-ready dashboards for regulatory and accreditation requirements. Notably, its Scan-to-Grade solution bridges Africa’s paper-first reality by converting handwritten scripts into digitally graded, traceable results.
Each year, the CEOs Network Africa Awards recognises leaders whose work demonstrates innovation, media, entrepreneurship, politics, sports and relevance to Africa’s development priorities. Award recipients are determined through an open nomination process followed by public voting.
Obi emerged as the recipient of the Technology and Innovation Award following a nomination and public voting process, reflecting the growing influence of SimplifiedIQ across sectors where trust and accountability are non-negotiable.
SimplifiedIQ currently partners with organisations responsible for high-stakes decisions, including the Chartered Institute of Project Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), and SeamlessHR, reflecting its reach across education, regulation, and workforce development.
Under Obi’s leadership, SimplifiedIQ continues to strengthen Africa’s capacity to deliver fair assessments, certify competence with verifiable records, enforce compliance transparently, reduce disputes, and build confidence in institutional and national outcomes. His vision remains a unified integrity ecosystem where every African assessment, certification, and compliance record is trusted, traceable, and transferable.
