Dapo Abiodun, Modele & Ojo. |
In his bid to move the
government of Ogun State to settle down to work, the Governor, Dapo Abiodun has approved the appointment of
seven senior aides to help navigate governance.
The new appointees
are;
Chief Economic Adviser
- Dapo Okubadejo;
Senior Special Adviser
on Political Affairs - Hon, Tunji Egbetokun;
Special Adviser on
Information - Modele Sarafa-Yusuf;
Special Adviser,
Government House - Hon. Babatunde Olaotan;
Special Adviser on Job
Creation and Youth Empowerment - Mr Lekan Olude;
Special Adviser on
Housing – Jamiu Akande Omoniyi; and
Senior Special
Assistant on New Media - SF Emmanuel Ojo.
The Chief Economic
Adviser, Dapo Okubadejo is a Partner & Africa Head of Deal Advisory &
Private Equity at KPMG. He is an expert on Corporate Finance, Mergers &
Acquisitions (M&A), Project Finance, Investments, Private Equity and
business transformation. With about 28 years of professional experience, he has
acted as Corporate Financial Adviser to many foreign and local investors in
Nigeria and across Africa.
Dapo started his
professional career in Arthur Andersen in 1992 and spent over a decade where he
rose to the position of Senior Manager and consulted for more than 40 companies
in oil & gas, consumer goods and financial services on many projects in
Assurance, Business Strategy & Planning, Financial Restructuring and
Business Transformation.
In 2006, Dapo was
promoted to the KPMG partnership as an Equity Partner and rose to become the
Head of Deal Advisory & Private Equity for West Africa and Africa in 2009
and 2012 respectively. He was elected to the KPMG Nigeria Policy Board in 2017.
Dapo is a recognized
expert on Africa business and investments landscape and has been invited as a
resource person, faculty, panelist and moderator at many international
conferences, seminars and fora such as the World Economic Forum, Harvard
Business School Africa forum, London Business School Africa, among others. He
has written many articles on investment opportunities in Nigeria and Africa,
Doing business in Africa and Private Equity in Nigeria and has delivered many
lectures on corporate finance, business valuations, IPO and private equity.
Dapo and his team have
won many international awards and recognition, the latest of which is the 2018
Global Financial Advisor award by the Private Equity Africa organization for
the second consecutive year.
Dapo Okubadejo holds a
2nd Class Upper Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Obafemi Awolowo
University, Nigeria in 1990 & as a UK FCO Chevening Scholar, holds a Master
of Finance degree in International Finance with Distinction from the University
of Glasgow, UK in 2003. He is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) from the
National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts, USA. He qualified as
an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Nigeria in 1996 and became a Fellow (FCA) in 2006. He is also a
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He is an alumnus of
the Global Executive Leadership program of INSEAD, France as well as the Lagos
Business School, Gordon Institute of Business Studies (GIBS) South Africa,
London Business School UK and Harvard Business School USA, where he attended
several leadership and management development courses.
The Senior Special
Adviser on Political Affairs, Hon. Tunji Egbetokun was Speaker, Ogun State
House of Assembly between 2008 and 2011. He had also served in the capacity of
Senior Special Adviser, Political and Intergovernmental Affairs between 2011
and 2014. Before then, he was Secretary to the Obafemi Owode Local
Government.
The new Special
Adviser on Information, Modele Sarafa-Yusuf, is an award-winning media
practitioner with a cumulative 32 years of experience in journalism and
Marketing Communications. She has varied experience contributing to, and
leading, corporate marketing and internal communications.
Sarafa-Yusuf is a
respected leader of sponsorships and public relations departments and a Concept
developer and coordinator of marketing campaigns which effectively reinforce
and build brand image.
The first woman
sportscaster in Africa, and a 1996 Nigerian Media Merit Award winner, she has
been described as one of the best sportscasters that Nigeria ever produced.
In her 16 years of
journalism with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Modele was not only a
sports broadcaster, she was also a columnist for magazines, a guest writer for
newspapers, a script writer for television shows and a producer of
documentaries and programmes for radio and television: in fields as diverse as
business, culinary, current affairs, crime, and education.
Between 2007 and 2011,
she was Globacom’s Head of Sponsorships (West Africa), at which time she led a
team of very talented people on projects such as the Glo CAF Awards, The Lagos
International Half Marathon, The Glo Premier League in Nigeria and Ghana, and
the first-in-Africa relationship with Manchester United FC among others.
Before then, she was
Marketing Communications /Sponsorship Manager with Globacom at the inception of
the company in 2003.
Between 2012 and 2013,
Modele was Director of Marketing at the prestigious American University of
Nigeria, and upon retirement, she returned to her first love: the world of
journalism. She currently produces and anchors arguably Nigeria’s highest rated
TV personality interview program: "View From the Top". She also works
as an Independent Communications Consultant for several organizations.
Modele has a
Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Ife and a Master's degree
in Public Administration from the University of Lagos.
Award winning
entrepreneur and technocrat with expertise in building and backing enduring
companies across African, Olalekan Adeniyi Olude, the new Special Adviser on
Job Creation and Youth Empowerment started his career as a Technology Analyst
with Goldman Sachs, arguably the largest investment bank in the world. He holds
an OND in Electrical Engineering at the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, a BSc in
Computer Science and Engineering.
Olude is an alumnus of
Lagos Business School and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His
forte is building pan-African businesses and his strength lies in maximizing
outcomes for people. Until his appointment, Olude was co-founder and Executive
Director at Rovedana Limited, a business process outsourcing company that
provides employment to more than 2000 Nigerians across different industries and
specializations by upscaling them and placing them into employment with over
100 companies. He was also a co-founder of Jobberman Limited, the leading job
site in sub-Saharan Africa and was a founding partner of the African Talents
Company in South Africa – a pan African Executive Recruitment Company with
offices in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.
The new Special Adviser
on Housing is 50-year-old Jamiu Akande Omoniyi. He is a fellow of the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). He started his working career with
Berger Paints Nigeria PLC in 1994 where he rose to become Credit Controller. He
was Regional Director (North) Abbey Mortgage PLC. In April 2009, he resigned to
float his business conglomerate C2Q Holding. The Estate development arm of his
company has delivered homes to 5,000 Nigerian families in Abuja and Lagos.
Hon. (Otunba)
Babatunde Olaotan, the Special Adviser (Government House) was born September
13, 1972, in Ilaro Ogun State. He obtained a 1997 Ordinary National
Diploma (OND) in Accounting at Federal Polytechnic Ilaro and Higher National
Diploma (HND) from the same institution in 1999. After a brief stint at First
Bank of Nigeria, he was appointed by the Yewa South Local Government as
Supervisor for Agriculture. In 2004, Babatunde Olaotan was in Manchester
College of Professional studies, where he studied computer and information technology.
He started his working
career with NWSG Company in the United Kingdom (UK) before relocating to the
United States of America in 2007, where he studied Nursing at Camtech
International College Newark Delaware USA. He also worked at Cadia Rehabilitation
Wilinton and Regal Height Nursing Home.
He became the Personal
Assistant on Political matters to the Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola (Yayi)
in August 2015.
HBO is also the
Personal Assistant to the new Executive Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dr Dapo
Abiodun. He was the Deputy Director, Contacts and Mobilization for Dapo Abiodun
Campaign Organization. He served as the Chairman Transport committee for Prince
Dapo Abiodun Pre- Inauguration activities.
Emmanuel Adediran Ojo
is a New Media expert with specialties in New Media Analytics and Digital
Marketing. His extensive experience spans over nine (9) years. He hails from
Imeko, in Imeko Afon Local Government area of Ogun state. A seasoned
professional in the development and deployment of strategic media engagement,
Emmanuel Ojo has extensive knowledge of new media trends, tools and analytics
platforms and he often deploy same in strategic communication, monitoring,
reporting and digital analysis. igital and social media landscape. This unique
skill facilitates his significant ability in tracking, monitoring, and
analyzing public and personal reputation in a unique form. In his career so
far, he has worked with different online groups.
He is a resourceful
and savvy online specialist who is not only able to oversee various social
media channels, but is also able to contribute to its daily content offering
and audience conversion.
Ojo was the Head of
New Media department at Infostrategy Limited. He was also part of the media
intervention team for National Identity Management Commission's, (NIMC) public
sensitization on National Identity Number (NIN) project in 2013/2014.
He is a thoroughbred
perception manager with proven skills in Public and Political Communication
especially in the Ogun state political terrain. He once served as a member of
PDP Presidential Online Media team in 2015.
Ojo holds a Higher
National Diploma in Business Administration and Management Studies from the
Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta. He also bagged a Second Class Upper
division Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in Business Management from Crescent
University, Abeokuta.
He has attended
various Business development and New Media Marketing Trainings and Work Shops
across the country and beyond.
Emmanuel Ojo is a
recipient of 17 Awards of recognition from various social and professional
bodies. In 2013, he was invited into the Junior Chamber International, Nigeria
Noble House as a JCIN Ambassador.
Until his appointment,
he was the Assistant Media Director for Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organization -
DACO and also served as the Secretary, Media and Publicity Sub Committee for
the governorship inauguration ceremony.
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