Obinna Oji is one of Nigeria’s emerging entrepreneurs in the venture capital space. His business interests span ICT, real estate, risk equity capital and agriculture. From 2005 till date, Oji has worked in both the public and private sectors. He started his career as a technical advisor with British Telecoms in the UK, he later served as the Special Assistant to the then Enugu State Governor on ICT where he led and monitored the most aggressive eGovernment and technology strategy initiatives in the state, A position he held for 7 years.
Until his appointment as a manager with the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (a power infrastructure company under the chairmanship of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) where he has served in the Public Relations department and now with Procurement Department, he was a managing partner with Eon Black Solutions Ltd, a corporate branding/ICT solutions firm. In 2012, he was appointed a Director with Private Estates International West Africa, the owners of Enugu Lifestyle and Golf City which is arguably one of the most beautifully planned cities in Nigeria, a position he has held till date.
He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Business Information Technology Systems from the Strathclyde Business School, UK.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row 0=””][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”12650″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1508097376048{margin-top: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]
NELSON OKWONNA Managing Director/CEO
Nelson Okwonna is a pharmacist, management and development consultant. He is the Principal, Onel Consults Limited, a management consultancy firm based in Abuja. He is also the Executive Director, West African Pharmaceutical Innovation Project and Dabar Pharmacy Limited. He is a Senior Development Consultant for Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business Environment (ENABLE2); a DFID project, and has provided services to numerous firms in the Nigerian private sector including Novartis Pharma Services and Watson Global Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. He also renders development advisory services to political office holders in the present Nigerian government. He has just developed a health social insurance scheme for a state government in Nigeria.
His core focus is on innovation as a tool for national development, he has delivered lectures on different subjects at local and international workshops including a presentation at a World Bank sponsored forum on pharmaceutical research development organized by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD). He was the architect of the NIPRD Industry Business Summit which was designed to foster increased public-private interactions in the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry space. His work as a consultant with ENABLE, DFID is on competitiveness development and business environment reforms.
Mr. Nelson is passionate about innovation as a tool for national development; as a resource person, he has delivered workshops for firms like Novartis Pharma, Nexim Bank, Pharmanews, Multi –Power Engineering Limited and a host of other organizations.
He is the author of The Heart and Art of Innovation
Emmanuel Tarfa is a management consultant with several years of experience in strategy and human capital management. He has gathered his wealth of experience from projects in several industries including: FMCG (Retail); Financial Services; Mobile Communications and Technology; Hospitality, Professional Services; Healthcare and Public Sector. His general expertise cover: Corporate Finance; Corporate Strategy; Market Due Diligence and Business Planning; Marketing and Sales; Research, Operations & Processes and Human Capital Management
Some of his most notable projects include:
Co-financial Advisors (Lead Partner) for raising of $100million for the construction of a Mini-LNG Gas Plant in Delta State (on-going) – Currently signed an MOU with potential financiers
Acting CFO (Interim Management Services) – Mobile Value Added Service Company – Led part of the company’s 2nd round funding to raise $2.5million
Partner – Product Development, Business Process Improvement – An International Non-governmental Organisation operating in over 50 countries across the World (Lagos and Kano offices)
Lead Analyst – PPP Framework – Federal Ministry of Works, Abuja
Marx; an avid lawyer is a 2007 graduate of the University of Jos, where he obtained his LL.B (Hons). He bagged his B.L at the serene Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School located in the idyllic town of Agbani. He was called to the bar and admitted to practice as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 18th Nov. 2008 under the benign but watchful gaze of Elder Simeon Olakunri (SAN).
His formative experience in litigation and corporate practice has matured into a broad interest in areas of law like corporate and business related law. He has also veered into novel areas such as ICT/Technology Law.
He garnered considerable experience under the pacesetting Ghalib Chambers (Yusuf Ali (SAN) & Co) while serving at different times as Law office clerk and Nigerian Law School extern. He spent his mandatory one year youth service at the Court of Appeal (Abuja Division) serving as Legal Assistant to Hon. Justice Mary U. Peter-Odili JCA (as she then was).
He is a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) trained international intellectual property practitioner and is a Certified Associate Project Manager (August 2009).
Marx, who serves as team lead and Principal of Everlaw Associates which he co-founded in 2008, also acts as legal advisor to several Organizations. He features regularly on radio and television programs in Abuja where he discusses sundry legal and governance issues.
Nnamdi Madubuko is an analyst and business development consultant at Onel Consults Limited, a management consulting firm based in Abuja. He is also the President/Founder Empowering Passionate Minds for Change (EPMC) Foundation, a not for profit organization that has positively impacted the lives of hundreds of youths around the world through its empowerment programs.
As an ardent researcher, His competence spans along strategic advisory, content development, capacity building and venture capitalism. Having worked and managed multidisciplinary teams in search for cutting-edge solutions, Nnamdi has piloted and conceptualized several business ideas for some start-ups notably an IT firm based in Lagos and several other leading firms in Nigeria. He has conducted trainings on capacity development for staff of several institutions in Nigeria
Nnamdi was pivotal in the team that conducted a revenue process re-engineering for a state’s Internal Revenue Service in the North-Western region of Nigeria where an integrated revenue administration system (IRAS) was developed for implementation.
He is a Certified Project Manager (November, 2015) and holds a bachelor degree in Engineering from Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
