Ola Jimoh Email & Phone Number

Sub-Saharan Africa

Lagos, Nigeria

I was redeployed to East and West Africa in 2020 to stabilise the business and drive growth. We created a Business Strategy early enough in the year, and we made some operational and structural changes geared towards putting more "boots" in front of our clients and prospects. We also deepened our working relationship with our Business Partners and.

Johannesburg, South Africa.

I was deployed to South Africa to re-jig the IBM storage business in Southern Africa (South Africa, Central African Countries and IOI). I lead a team of Sales and Technical Sales Professionals.Highlights of my time in this role include - Working with the team to formulate an executable Sales Strategy.- Developed and Implemented a new Operational Structure.

Central And West Africa

I joined IBM in 2015. I lead the IBM Systems team consisting of Sales and Technical resources in Central and West Africa Countries. Central and West Africa (CWA) for IBM consists of 17 countries that include the IOI. I had a direct team of 16 Sales and Technical professionals across some of those countries. I have the Lab services team also reported to me.

Responsibilities: Revenue attainment; Total Costumer Experience, including ensuring Deployment and Support met the global company standard; Talent Management; Sales Management; New Business Development: Operations Management; Coaching and Mentoring of direct and indirect reports; Creating the right working environment that attracts new talents:I was.

Responsibilities:Revenue attainmentTotal Customer Experience including ensuring Deployment and Support meet the global company standardCoaching and Mentoring of direct and indirect reportsSupervising Admin functions.

Responsible for - Revenue attainments- meeting Gross Margin target- Recruiting account managers- Leading, Coaching / Mentoring Account Manager, Inside sales and sales operations colleagues.

I was responsible for Revenue attainment and growth; General team Management.I was responsible for Sales in Nigeria and Ghana.I was the pioneer staff when Netapp started operation in West Africa. I put together a small but very agile team in the region.We grew revenue from $0.5M at inception to $15M in 2008.We built a strong NetApp Brand in Nigeria and.

I developed new businesses and acquired new brands.We jointly built a team of Sales and support staff.I lead the addition of new customers within two years. (I can provide customers names and details of these on request.)I lead the building of solution Sales around NetApp, Veritas (Symantec), Sensaphone, Expand Networks.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Engineering - B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering: Speciality In Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer And Fluid Flow.

Activities and Societies: Chairman, Technical Committee: Nigerian Universities Engineering Students’ Association (NUESA) - Unilorin.