Bimbo Alase-Arawole is a Nigerian entrepreneur and the CEO of Leatherworld, a highly acclaimed luxury furniture company estimated to be about $750 million.

She had her education outside Nigeria. She attended the Pittman College, London and went on to the Regent Academy of Designs and Fine Arts, London. She also bagged a Post Graduate degree in Interior Designing from the London Design School.

In addition to that Alase is on the board of several companies, and she is mentor to a number of aspiring and established entrepreneurs.

Alase started Leatherworld in 1994, a business that has become very known in the furniture industry and one that screams luxury and class. She had the vision to make high-quality furniture available to everyone, and she achieved just that. Alase grew the business from a small retail outlet in Ribadu road, Ikoyi.

And today, she has branches both in Nigeria and other parts of the world. In all of these, Leatherworld retained the integrity of only serving the best quality of luxury furniture.

In partnership with NIERI, Leatherworld in 2005 had commissioned The Concourse Industry – an assembling and manufacturing plant in the Calabar Free Trade Zone – in a bid to concretize the standard it had already set for luxury furniture in Nigeria.

The plant was commissioned by the former First Lady, the late Chief (Mrs.) Stella Obasanjo in February 2005, and was the first truly Nigerian furniture manufacturing company with a continental franchise to serve the local market, as well as export finished items to other West African countries.