About us

We turn the charging wait into something worth it.

SWYCH Box is the concierge at the EV charger — food, groceries, and local deals, ordered right from the plug. Built by two dads who saw 25 minutes of dead time and decided to do something with it.

Our story

It started with two dads and a library.

Every story has a beginning — ours started with our families. Temi and Chase met through their wives, two families whose kids go to the same school. They clicked instantly over a shared itch to build something that mattered, and turned casual dinners into weekly whiteboard sessions in libraries around town.

Then came a family road trip to Chicago. Charging the EV the next day, Temi watched the backseat mess from the drive pile up — nowhere to clean it, nothing to do, and 25 minutes ticking by. The charge was free time going to waste. At their next meeting, the idea landed: make charging downtime genuinely useful. SWYCH Box was born.

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Met through family

Two dads, one school, wives who saw the spark first.

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Weekly whiteboards

Library sessions, marker on glass, ideas taking shape.

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The post-Chicago charge

25 idle minutes at the plug — the problem, made obvious.

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SWYCH Box

Service while you charge — live today in Peoria, IL.

The chiefs

Hardware grit meets software firepower.

Three operators who've shipped real products, run real businesses, and built platforms at scale.

Temitope Akinlua, CEO
CEO

Temitope Akinlua

18 years in industry taking products from napkin to mass production. Deep hardware, systems integration, and a customer-first instinct — the engine room of SWYCH Box.

20+ patents and $100M+ in products shipped — still happiest at a whiteboard.
Chase Brower, COO
COO

Chase Brower

Serial entrepreneur and seven-unit franchisee who scales teams and operations for a living. If it needs to run smoothly and grow, that's Chase.

Built and ran seven businesses — operations is his love language.
Rajeev Kumar, CTO
CTO

Rajeev Kumar

Two decades architecting mission-critical, high-scale enterprise software. Rajeev leads the pivot to SWYCH Box's proprietary platform — the defensible technology that's our future.

Two decades in enterprise software — now architecting ours from the ground up.

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