Austyne DURU is an Engineer with business acumen. He is a co-founder and consultant at Modulus Technologies, a Lagos-based tech-startup involved with communication and power systems development. His career spans eighteen years of continuous practice including three (3) years of entrepreneurship and fifteen (15) years of telecoms engineering management career. He was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Communications Engineering specialisation of Electrical and Electronic Engineering programme (FUT Owerri, Nigeria), a Master's degree in Telecommunications (Birmingham City, UK), and a Master's degree in Engineering Management (Port Harcourt, Nigeria). He is also an alumnus of Lagos Business School (General Management Programme). He is pursuing doctorate degrees in Business Administration (financing tech-startups), and Systems Engineering (wireless systems modelling).