Peter Okeowo Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

• Coached over 85% of immigrants in resume building, interview preparation, and connecting them to job fairs leading to their successful employment within six months of resettlement• Connected immigrants to local healthcare, education, USCIS, and community resources, accelerating their community integration and reducing reliance on support programs• Assisted 100% of asylum seekers with opening bank accounts and improving financial literacy, encouraging saving habits• Facilitated housing, school placements, asylum application and work authorization applications, achieving a 95% success rate in securing job placement and essential services for asylum seekers

• Successfully developed a strategic expansion plan to expand Microsoft Leap initiative to 4 countries, resulting in a significant increase in the tech talent pool and addressing the talent gap for both Microsoft and its clients.• Conducted market research for 10 countries within Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to identify and agree potential countries to invest in which resulted into investing in 2 new emerging countries across EMEA• Designed the user experience of Microsoft Leap as a service website with focus on identifying business opportunities in enhancing business growth by 12%• Effectively led the development of 11 technology skills portfolio pathways, which increased the qualified candidates pool by 20%

• Built strong relationships with key government executives, corporate and influencers expanding IBM business and technology skills initiatives in 17 countries across Central, West & Southern African countries• Created and executed 22 social responsibility and technology developmental projects with NGOs, foundations, tertiary institutions, governments, and developmental organizations such as World Bank to impact job employability among youths in Nigeria• Developed an educational stakeholder engagement strategy with a centralized partner/alliance process with result of 12% incremental improvement in revenues owing to adoption of IBM products in Africa• Surpassed technology educational target in 2019 by 300% by partnering with federal government in growing digital skills to reach over 500,000 individuals

• Developed and maintained a strong sales pipeline and nurtured close relationships with 8 key clients, contributing to a significant increase in IBM's business and market share within West Africa• Managed client sales cycles by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, resulting in increase in sales pipeline and deal closures

• Supervised and evangelized 10 new emerging technologies by leveraging 90 IBM Cloud events during an outreach across Middle East, Africa and Pakistan with a presence of 1633 students in a span of two months• Leveraged IBM Cloud in growing technical needs and cloud adoption in 25 universities and hubs across Middle East and Africa• Evangelized 10 new technology developments and best practices to faculties & students to expand application deployments forcloud transformation using IBM academic initiative as cloud resources