Zainab is a professional with over Seventeen (17) years’ experience in the Oil & Gas, ICT, Financial Services, Professional Services and Health Sectors. She has acquired important business management skills such as Business Analysis, Business Administration, Performance Management, Programme and Project Planning, Management & Implementation, Business Strategy Formulation and many more complementary skills and competencies.In the last 5 years, she has built capacity in developing Strategies, designing sustainable Systems and Processes that support the strategy and galvanising the necessary resources, including People that incubate specific Businesses including Government Agencies, Healthcare services delivery practices, Technology Institutions as well as Small & Medium Enterprises.Zainab graduated in 2003 with a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from University College, London (UCL). She has earned Yellow and Green Belt Certifications in Lean Six Sigma and is Black Belt Trained. She has attended several courses to sharpen her business acumen including the Executive Operations Experience at the Kellogg’s School of Management and a Senior Management Programme at the prestigious Lagos Business School in Nigeria. She is currently enrolled at the Quantic School where she expects to gain an Executive MBA by 2024. She spent over a decade of her professional career at Interswitch Group, the foremost payment and switching company with its base in Lagos, Nigeria but with a global outreach. She worked in several capacities but specialised in supporting the Executive Management on conceptualising, designing and implementing various Strategy and Operational Excellence initiatives across the Group.In 2018, she joined Lauren Parker Limited, a Nigerian-based advisory and consulting firm as the Consulting Partner. Here, she has specialised in developing growth initiatives and value creation by identifying revenue generation and cost management management opportunities, driving operational efficiency and excellence, building capacity and effective distribution of resources and deploying SMARTER approaches to solve critical business challenges for their customers.[SMARTER – Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Time-bound, Evaluated, Reviewed]Zainab is self and socially aware, astute, conscientious, fun-loving, generally agreeable open to new experiences and results-oriented.