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Experience

A career built toward strategic leadership.

Public health and development shaped my systems perspective. Executive support built leadership insight. Operations and business management deepened ownership. Chief of Staff leadership brought those foundations together.

Current Role

Group Chief of Staff

dentsu Nigeria

A strategic leadership and operating role. I partner with senior leadership across a seven-agency group on alignment, governance, executive reporting, operational performance, stakeholder coordination and execution.

What I'm responsible for

  • Executive partnership with senior leadership across a seven-agency group.
  • Strategic alignment of priorities across business units and leadership teams.
  • Governance frameworks and the operating rhythms that structure how decisions are made.
  • Operational performance oversight and organizational effectiveness across the group.

The problems I solve

  • Strategic intent that exists at the top but loses momentum between agencies.
  • Inconsistent visibility, leadership seeing different versions of the same picture.
  • Initiatives that span several units with no single owner or sequence.
  • Coordination that depends on escalation rather than on an agreed cadence.

What I've built

  • Governance frameworks and operating rhythms across seven business units.
  • Executive reporting and KPI visibility used by senior leadership.
  • Cross-functional coordination structures for group-wide initiatives.
  • Stakeholder management routines across internal leadership and external partners.

What changed as a result

  • Executive leadership supported across 7 business agencies.
  • 200+ employees connected and coordinated across business units.
  • Operational overhead reduced by 15% through led initiatives.
  • Strategic project completion accelerated by an average of 6 weeks.

Builder Perspective

Entrepreneurial experience that strengthens executive judgment.

These ventures complement my Chief of Staff work by sharpening ownership, customer thinking and practical execution.

Arsure Technologies

Co-Founder & COO

Responsible for
Strategy, operations, business development, partnerships and execution for an early-stage healthcare technology startup.
What I built
The operating structure of the company, how work is owned, sequenced and delivered.

Munchlab

Founder

Responsible for
A food and hospitality venture, with Crave & Co. as its restaurant concept.
What I built
The concept, the food philosophy and the day-to-day operating model behind it.

Oratia

Founder

Responsible for
A clothing and fashion venture currently on pause while strategy is rethought.
What I built
An early exploration into fashion, brand and creative expression.

Career Foundations

The industries, organizations and programmes that shaped how I think about systems, stakeholders and execution.

  1. Public health & international development

    Healthcare and development programmes with WHO and UNICEF, including work as a Senior State Supervisor and Technical Facilitator across programmes and states in Nigeria.

  2. Clinical healthcare

    Hands-on experience within clinical healthcare before moving into the corporate world.

  3. Healthcare & government

    Work with the Primary Health Care Board and the Ministry of Health in Lagos, systems, stakeholders and public-sector execution.

  4. Financial services

    Experience with Obsidian Achernar, adding a private-sector perspective on business, risk and operations.

  5. Maritime oil & gas

    Business Manager at Tetra Maritime, managing business functions and learning how decisions flow in a technical, capital-intensive environment.

Leadership Progression

Public Health & Development → Executive Support → Operations & Business Management → Strategy & Chief of Staff → Building Ventures

  1. Executive Assistant

    Supporting leaders directly, learning how organizations function from the inside: priorities, communication, decision-making and stakeholder management.

  2. Senior Executive Assistant

    Progressing into more complex executive support, sitting closer to strategic conversations and cross-functional coordination.

  3. Chief of Staff

    Shifting from carrying priorities to shaping them, partnering with leadership, challenging early and holding the organization to its commitments.

  4. Business Manager

    Owning business functions and operational detail in a maritime oil & gas environment.

  5. Group Chief of Staff

    Operating at the intersection of strategy, operations, executive leadership and organizational execution across a multi-agency group.

Detailed role history and dates available on request.

See the work in practice