who was a network administrator for a large financial services
company, contributed greatly to his analytical skills.
While growing up, Kenny’s family started out in Nigeria,
shortly thereafter leaving for the United States, and eventually settling in New York City. After graduating high school
in New York, Kenny moved to Houston where he attended
the University of Houston and graduated with a BBA (Bachelors of Business Administration) in Information Systems.
The oldest of four within a ten year range, Kenny grew up
with one sister and two younger brothers, all of whom
helped out by working when they were old enough. “We’re
a tight-knit family. Everyone worked including my mother”,
remarked Kenny
When Kenny began at U of H, he couldn’t decide on a
major. He recalled, “I almost sent my parents to the insane
asylum. I started off with engineering; obviously a kid who
likes math ought to go into engineering. I realized very
quickly that was not my passion. Then I switched over to
biology as a major because I wanted to be a doctor. So I
switched from the math to the science in line with what I
had liked my whole life. Once I realized that part of going
into medical school and becoming a doctor involved something called gross anatomy and dissecting human beings, I
quickly dropped that and changed my major. I decided that
pharmacology would be okay because it was still in the field
of biological sciences so I applied for pharmacy school and
do the pre-pharmacy curriculum. Once again I realized that
it wasn’t for me. It wasn’t dynamic enough. I was lost and
my parents were frustrated. I sought the help of a guidance
counselor and after a lot of talking and getting to know each
other, she suggested I go to business school. I thought to myself, ‘Who actually goes to school for business? Business is
something you just do’. Lo and behold that is where I found
my home – the perfect fit. I was in the business school and I
got into business information systems. That was 2000.”
Towards the end of his undergraduate years, Kenny met
and fell in love with the love of his life, Letitia. It was a funny story because when Kenny and Letitia initially met, they
didn’t hit it off. Kenny was a senior intern and was responsible for training the new interns on the tasks he was doing.
On the day that Letitia walked in and Kenny was told that
he was going to train her, he recognized her from campus.
Taking his job far too seriously, Kenny wasn’t very friendly
to Letitia because he didn’t think she took her job seriously enough. In addition, he thought she didn’t pay attention
and that s