# Bios ยท Olufela "Lu" Fagbure _All bios align on one positioning: the operator helping small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts._ _Name form is always Olufela "Lu" Fagbure. Public title is Founder & Director, IT Custom Solution LLC._ _Audit-aware: no em-dash, no banned vocabulary, no fabricated proof. Verified facts only._ --- ## 50-word bio Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Director of IT Custom Solution LLC, a NYC MBE certified, SAM.gov registered firm, and the operator helping small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts. He builds the Winrove software suite and writes about government contracting from inside the work. --- ## 100-word bio Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Director of IT Custom Solution LLC and the operator helping small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts. He started the firm to close a gap he kept seeing: capable small businesses shut out of public procurement because the system was built for firms with full-time proposal teams. IT Custom Solution is NYC MBE certified and registered on SAM.gov, with delivered work for City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri and Rensselaer County, New York. From inside that work, Lu builds the Winrove suite, including Winrove, OpsTicket, and OnboardIQ. He is based in New York. --- ## 250-word bio Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Director of IT Custom Solution LLC and the operator helping small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts. He started the firm to close a gap he kept seeing in plain sight: most small businesses never bid on government work, not because they cannot do it, but because the system was built for firms with a full-time proposal team. IT Custom Solution is a NYC MBE certified small business, registered on SAM.gov, with delivered work for City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri and Rensselaer County, New York. Its SBA 8(a) and NMSDC applications were submitted in 2026 and are under review. Lu came to government contracting the long way. He studied at the University of Alberta, then spent a decade in corporate enterprise IT, where he learned how large organizations buy, deliver, and measure. Earlier, at twenty, he co-founded a luxury leather goods brand with his twin brother Fola that drew international coverage, and he later helped run an on-demand car care startup in New York. From inside live government work, Lu builds the Winrove suite: software small firms use to find the right opportunities, draft stronger proposals, onboard their teams, and deliver cleanly. Winrove, OpsTicket, and OnboardIQ are live; DeliverOps is in early access. The tools are agent-assisted, and the judgment is human. His first lesson in ownership came from his mother, who ran her own business for more than twenty-five years. He is based in New York. --- ## 500-word bio Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Director of IT Custom Solution LLC and the operator helping small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts. His work is built on a single observation: most small businesses never bid on government work, not because they cannot do it, but because public procurement was designed for firms with a full-time proposal team, and they do not have one. His mission is to close that gap, first by doing the work, then by building the software for it. He started IT Custom Solution in 2020. Today it is a NYC MBE certified small business, registered on SAM.gov, with delivered work for City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri and for Rensselaer County, New York. The firm's SBA 8(a) and NMSDC applications were submitted in 2026 and are under review. Everything Lu writes and teaches about government contracting, he has done or is doing inside a live contract. Lu came to this work the long way, and the route is the point. He studied at the University of Alberta. He then spent a decade inside corporate enterprise IT, across infrastructure, systems, operations, and technical leadership, where he learned how large organizations actually buy, deliver, and measure. That decade is what lets him translate the buyer's logic for the small firms he now serves. Before the IT decade, at twenty, he co-founded a luxury leather goods brand with his twin brother Fola. It drew international coverage early and taught him how a brand is built and carried. Later he helped run an on-demand car care startup in New York. Different industries, one constant across all of them: the operator's job is to make a complicated thing repeatable. From inside government work, Lu builds the Winrove suite, software small firms use to move through the full arc of a contract: find the right opportunities, draft stronger proposals, onboard their teams, and deliver cleanly. Winrove, OpsTicket, and OnboardIQ are live; DeliverOps is in early access. The tools are agent-assisted, and the judgment stays human. The point is not the software for its own sake; it is to shorten the distance between a capable small firm and a won contract. His first lesson in business came earlier and closer to home, from his mother, who ran her own for more than twenty-five years. She showed him that ownership is how a family builds something that outlasts it. She passed in 2015, and the work carries her forward. Lu's ventures and travels have taken him across 10 or more cities and 3 continents; he is based in New York. He writes and speaks about how small and minority-owned firms actually win government contracts: how to read a solicitation, what certifications get you, where most bids lose points, and what he learns building in this space. His promise is narrow and honest: only what he has done or is doing, made practical enough that another small firm can act on it this week. --- ## Speaker bio (150 words, third person) Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Director of IT Custom Solution LLC and the operator helping small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts. He started the firm to close a gap he kept seeing: capable small businesses shut out of public procurement because the system was built for firms with full-time proposal teams. IT Custom Solution is NYC MBE certified, registered on SAM.gov, and has delivered for City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri and Rensselaer County, New York. From inside that work, Lu builds the Winrove software suite, including Winrove, OpsTicket, and OnboardIQ. He studied at the University of Alberta and spent a decade in corporate enterprise IT before founding ITC. He speaks on how small and minority-owned firms actually win government contracts, and on practical, agent-assisted ways a small firm can do more with a lean team. He is based in New York. --- ## Podcast bio (100 words, conversational) Lu Fagbure is the founder of IT Custom Solution and the guy who helps small and minority-owned businesses win government contracts. He started his firm after a decade in corporate enterprise IT, and he learned the hard way that most small businesses never bid on public work, not because they can't do it, but because the system was built for companies with full-time proposal teams. So he built the software to close that gap: Winrove, OpsTicket, OnboardIQ. He talks about how the contracting game actually works, and how a small shop can win it. He's based in New York. --- ## Press bio (boilerplate paragraph, third person, wire-style) Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Director of IT Custom Solution LLC, a NYC MBE certified, SAM.gov registered small business based in New York, and the developer of the Winrove software suite for government contractors. Founded in 2020, IT Custom Solution helps small and minority-owned businesses compete for and win government contracts, and has delivered for City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri and Rensselaer County, New York. The firm's SBA 8(a) and NMSDC applications were submitted in 2026 and are under review. Fagbure studied at the University of Alberta and spent a decade in corporate enterprise IT before founding the company. --- ## Government / procurement bio (federal-formal, third person, certifications-forward) Olufela "Lu" Fagbure is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IT Custom Solution LLC, a small business registered on SAM.gov under UEI PR9KWJPM4JU9 and CAGE code 91CE1. IT Custom Solution is a Minority Business Enterprise certified by the New York City Department of Small Business Services (cert #MWCERT2022-353, expires 2027-05-31). The firm's SBA 8(a) Business Development application was submitted in 2026 and is under SBA review, and its NMSDC MBE application was submitted in 2026. IT Custom Solution operates under NAICS 541512, 541511, 541519, 518210, and 611420, and has performed competitively awarded government contracts for City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri and Rensselaer County, New York. Fagbure founded the firm in 2020 and directs both its services delivery and its Winrove software portfolio. He studied at the University of Alberta and brings approximately a decade of corporate enterprise IT experience to the firm's government work.