VOOM Welcomes Wande Elam to the board of directors

​Oluwande "Wande" Elam was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria.  She moved to the United States for college at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas where she graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor's degree in international Studies and Spanish.  She went on to Washington University in St. Louis School of Law where she completed her law degree on a full tuition scholarship.  Wande spent the first ten years of her legal career as a corporate restructuring attorney at international and boutique law firms. 

Subsequently, she joined the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, a U.S. Department of Defense entity providing goods and services to soldiers and airmen worldwide, where she served as Associate General Counsel in the Business Law department for three years. In October 2019, Wande joined Toyota Motor North America, Inc. in a newly created role as Senior Counsel for Toyota Connected North America, Inc., the startup at the heart of transforming Toyota to a mobility company through connected intelligence services. She was promoted to Managing Counsel in January 2022 and she continues to serve Toyota by providing advice and counsel to business units in a variety of global and cutting-edge transactions and projects. 

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