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An innovative executive and technology strategist with exceptional interpersonal skills and wealth of professional experience across Telecommunication, Information Technology (IT), Financial Services, and Professional Services (Consulting) industries. He has successfully led the delivery of several multi-million-dollar complex strategic initiatives/programs ensuring improved organizational efficiency, and creating sustainable competitive advantage through execution excellence, risk-consciousness and a laser focus on delivery of ROI/business value. He inspires teams to solve complex problems leveraging data and technology for enhanced business productivity. Having worked on both the demand and supply side of IT, occupying different strategic positions at various world class organizations and as a consultant to top government institutions and large corporations managing expectations of client sponsors (C-suite executives), champions and other stakeholders on delivery efforts, he has gained strong pragmatic technical skills and experience in the areas of Portfolio/Program Management, Strategy Design & Execution, Digital Transformation, Risk Management, Information security, IT Governance, Business Development, Solution Delivery, Data Centre Architecture and Operations, Service Management, Infrastructure Consulting and Enterprise Architecture. He has about two decades of experience and currently works in 9mobile as Head, IT Security & Governance and Enterprise Data Protection Officer (DPO) with a primary responsibility of ensuring that necessary structures and processes are put in place to guarantee that there is alignment between IT and business strategy, and strategic initiatives/programs are successfully delivered in a cost-effective and secure way. He is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Electrical engineering and Master of Business Administration (MBA), a business coach, Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) mentor, and a member of Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. He is a thought leader in the areas of project management, information security, IT Governance and management consulting, and an established speaker at conferences and summits.