Driving digital transformation and social impact in Africa. FOUND is a dual-entity organization comprising a non-profit foundation and a commercial technology company. I lead the strategic vision and execution for both entities, ensuring their synergistic efforts towards bridging the digital divide and empowering individuals & businesses through technology.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Leadership: Setting the overall direction and goals for both FATEF and FATL, fostering innovation, and driving sustainable growth.Team Building and Culture: Cultivating a high-performing, passionate, and diverse team across both entities, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Technology Innovation & Commercialization: Leading FATL's efforts to identify, develop, and commercialize innovative technology solutions tailored to the African market, driving revenue generation and sustainable growth. This also includes reseller partnerships with Google Cloud and other technology providers to offer comprehensive technology solutions and support to businesses and individuals in Africa.Social Impact: Overseeing the design, implementation, and scaling of FATEF's flagship initiative, DOPE (Democratizing Opportunity through Personalized Education), to deliver accessible and personalized digital skills training across Africa.Strategic Partnerships & Expansion: Spearheading strategic initiatives, such as the joint venture with Deimos, to expand FOUND's reach and offerings. Actively exploring and executing global expansion plans to bring the FOUND model to new markets.Business Development & Sales: Overseeing FATL's sales and business development strategies, including identifying and pursuing new market opportunities, building relationships with key clients and partners, and driving revenue growth.Fundraising and Partnerships: Securing funding and forging strategic partnerships with governments, NGOs, and the private sector to support both FATEF and FATL's initiatives.

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Managing country digital marketing and internal communication needs while offering support to regions.

Innovation Project at FirstBank. Responsibilities:Lead the development of an Idea management system for innovation within the bank as well as drive architecture and execution of innovative prototypes, with the aide of the Innovation project team. Design and develop proof of concept using rapid prototyping in a simulated environment. Ensure feasibility of ideas generated by mapping components to actual existing capabilities/assets (internal and external). Work closely with the relevant business units teams of clients/partners to understand their deployment environment.Key Relationships: Executive Management Team, Innovation Council, Innovation project team, EPMO, Strategic Business Units, Strategy Department, Branch Services and Operations teams, Relationship Managers (Executive Groups).

- Co-ordinate the day to day relationships between the Bank and its creative Agencies- Contribute to the development, implementation and review of the Group’s corporate strategy, in accordance with the Group’s overall strategic plan.- Exploit business intelligence and competitor analysis, utilizing market trends to maintain brand leadership position.

- Direct Marketing including database development and consumer insights.- Corporate Event Management (involving planning, budgeting and implementation)- Experiential Marketing (one-to-one marketing, sampling, market activations, town/market storm, merchandising, promotions etc.)- Work with a marketing team in strategic brainstorming and planning and implementing best practice- Fully support, assist and stand in for and assist Account manager and represent the Agency.- Support, Create or present pitch-winning proposals to potential or existing Clients- Project management support and reporting of promotional activities to Clients.- Monitor Brand activations pan Nigeria with analysis/reports on activities- Assist Account manager on budgets preparation and negotiations.- Manage third-party suppliers, ensure maximum compliance and maintain standards.

- Perform effectively within a cross functional team whose aims are to support the achievements of the company objectives.- Fully support line manager in creating and implementing best practice processes, providing cover when absent and managing team members.- To motivate and drive team members to deliver against team KPI’s- To forward plan at market group level in line with agreed sales forecasts.

- Processing orders on SAGELINE 500.- Monitoring sales trends of Edirol products - Troubleshooting delivery issues in tandem with 3rd party warehouse- Loan administration – Maintaining historic and current loan records.- Entering goods returns on SAGE and raising Credit notes for customers.