How I came to do this work.
I came to this work through a long road. It started at Igbobi College in Lagos and a pre-medical program at the University of Lagos, ran through Birkbeck, University of London, and an Executive MBA at UNCW Cameron, and eventually led to founding a company. Along the way I learned that the systems around the care, around the decisions, around the operators, were often where the hardest problems lived. Thirty years of enterprise architecture and Fortune 100 program leadership followed: Disney, Southwest Airlines, JCPenney, Vontier. I learned to read complexity, to sit with pressure, and to keep the human at the center even when the platform diagram had eight hundred boxes on it.
I hold United States and United Kingdom citizenship, and I work across both, with operators on the African continent through Tech for Africa, and across the American healthcare landscape through Stratevora.
Today, I lead Stratevora Technologies, a vertical AI and SaaS company helping independent community and rural hospitals recover revenue and meet the federal interoperability mandates now reshaping the sector. I advise boards, CEOs, and founders on enterprise AI strategy, operating-model design, and the program bets that compound or quietly burn the next four quarters. I coach senior operators in transition and founders past the first hire and before the first hundred, one-on-one and in small-group settings, helping leaders perform at the top of their range without losing what makes them worth following. The method is Spiritcode, which has its own page. I serve on a small number of boards where my background is load-bearing and decline more than I accept.
I am co-authoring Saving Rural Hospitals: The Transformation Playbook for Routledge, on the institutions doing the hardest work in American healthcare. I chair Tech for Africa, a diaspora-led initiative that connects enterprise-grade technology, mentorship, and capital to operators on the continent. I write about leadership disciplines that outlast cycles. I publish when I have something to say.
CPHIMS | Executive MBA, UNCW Cameron School of Business | Past President, SIM Research Triangle | Co-author, Saving Rural Hospitals: The Transformation Playbook (Routledge, forthcoming)
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Questions people ask.
- Who is Yemi Mateola?
- Yemi Mateola is the founder and CEO of Stratevora Technologies, a vertical AI and SaaS company helping independent community and rural hospitals recover revenue and meet federal interoperability mandates. He spent thirty years in Fortune 100 program leadership at Disney, Southwest Airlines, JCPenney, and Vontier.
- What does Yemi Mateola do?
- As founder and CEO of Stratevora Technologies, Yemi Mateola leads vertical AI for the hospital revenue cycle and interoperability at community and rural hospitals. He also advises CEOs and founders on enterprise AI and AI-native transformation, serves as a board director and advisor, coaches senior executives, speaks on enterprise AI and healthcare transformation, and chairs Tech for Africa.
- What is Stratevora Technologies?
- Stratevora Technologies is a vertical AI and SaaS company founded by Yemi Mateola that helps independent community and rural hospitals recover revenue and meet federal interoperability mandates.
- Does Yemi Mateola serve on boards?
- Yes. Yemi Mateola serves as a board director and advisor to a small number of healthcare, vertical SaaS, and mission-driven boards, with a focus on audit, technology and risk, and compensation committees.
- Does Yemi Mateola offer advisory, coaching, or speaking?
- Yes. Yemi Mateola offers selective AI strategy advisory, executive and leadership coaching for senior operators and founders, and keynote speaking on enterprise AI, healthcare transformation, and servant leadership.
- What is Saving Rural Hospitals: The Transformation Playbook?
- Saving Rural Hospitals: The Transformation Playbook is a book co-authored by Yemi Mateola, forthcoming from Routledge, on the institutions doing the hardest work in American healthcare.
- What is Spiritcode?
- Spiritcode is Yemi Mateola's leadership development method: it treats a leader as a whole system, spirit, soul, and body, and maps standard coaching practices to that deeper standard. It is delivered through his executive coaching practice and is the subject of a book in progress.
Last updated: June 2026.