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Udom Gabriel Emmanuel was born on July 11, 1966, into the family of Ette Teacher Gabriel Emmanuel Nkenang, a native of Awa Iman in Onna Local Government, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. He rose from being a Sunday school leader at United Evangelical Church (QIC) (formerly Qua Iboe Church) to become a bank director. Emmanuel and his family are strong members of United Evangelical Church (QIC), Nigeria. Emmanuel served as an audit manager of Price Waterhouse Coopers. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He served as chief financial officer of Zenith Bank. Emmanuel also served as group head of Income Optimization, Financial Control & Strategic Planning Department at Zenith Bank. He served as general manager of Zenith Bank Plc. He joined Zenith in 1996 from Diamond Bank Limited and was the pioneer manager of its Lagos Central Branch. He was in charge of the Telecommunications Sector, Income Optimization and Financial & Strategic Planning Group of Zenith Bank Plc. He has over seventeen years financial services experience. He served as an executive director of Zenith Bank Plc. He is a Chartered Accountant and he trained with Price Water house Coopers. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He has attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, France.[5] Udom holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Lagos in 1988. Emmanuel holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Lagos in 1988. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He has attended the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, France. He attended School of Arts and Science, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and obtained Advanced Certificate of Basic Studies (CBS) and Higher School Certificate (HSC) Udom attended Secondary Commercial School, Ikot Akpan Ishiet, Onna LGA of Akwa Ibom State. On March 18, 2017 Udom Emmanuel was given the 2016 Leadership award for Best Governor of the Year.[20][21][22] Nigeria sports Governor of the year award, November, 2017.[23]

Bruce has over 27 years’ experience of cost and project management in landmark and mega projects. He has successfully led teams in mature and developing markets to deliver reliable service to the highest international standards. In the last 14 years, Bruce has been the director for a number of large-scale mixed-use projects across the EMEA region. He has successfully built long-term client relationships through all project phases and economic cycles to deliver short- and long-term client objectives. He is a strong advocate of good and improving standards of service by stand-up new teams and by a dedication to training and mentoring new staff, and even client staff, to achieve chartered surveyor status. Bruce takes a very active role in professional development and standards and is a board member of RICS’ Global Standards and Regulation Board.

Ayo is CEO of Economic Associates (EA) where he provides strategic direction for ongoing research and consulting on Nigeria’s Economic Outlook, focusing on global, continental, national, sub-national, sectoral, and corporate issues. He is a Visiting Faculty at the Nigerian University of Technology and Management (NUTM) in Lagos where teaches Economics of Globalization on the post-graduate Nigerian Scholars Programme (NSP). He is the Vice-Chairman of the Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatization (TC-NCP), aligning privatization programmes with the macroeconomy.

Ayo earned B.Sc. Economics from University of Ibadan with Sir James Robertson Prize and Medal, UAC Prize in Economics, and Economics Departmental Prize as all-round best economics graduate in 1988, M.Sc. Economics from Ibadan in 1990, M. Phil. Economics of Developing Countries as a Cambridge-DfID Scholar at University of Cambridge in 1992, and Ph.D. in Applied Econometrics and Monetary Economics from University of Durham in 2003. He is an Alumnus of Lagos Business School (AMP 5) and Henley Business School (BDP) Executive Programmes.

Ayo articulates his views on Nigeria’s economic policy imperatives through articles, interviews, and comments in the mass media. He successfully spearheaded the advocacy for re-denomination of Naira notes and coins that led to the introduction of N100, N200, N500 and N1000 notes between December 1999 and October 2005. His current reform advocacy is on how Nigeria can change the economic narratives by leveraging on her vast stocks of under-utilized public wealth to unlock internal and external liquidity required to rejuvenate ebbing fiscal, financial, and forex flows.

Before becoming CEO of EA in 2004, Ayo was Chief Economist at ThisDay Newspaper (2001-2004), Faculty Member at Lagos Business School (1995-2001), Head of Research at Lagos Chamber of Commerce (1993-1995), and Company Economist at UAC of Nigeria (1992-1993). Ayo consults for many blue-chip companies, Federal and State ministries, departments, and agencies, DfID, GIZ, USAID, UNDP, UNIDO, World Bank, received grants from Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, and was a Visiting Scholar to the IMF Research Department in Washington DC.

Abdul-Jabbar Oyekan is Founder of the Yahshud Charity platform. An Islamic crowdfunding platform that is focused on real estate investments and charity projects. He is also the CEO of Crystaldrive Construction Limited Lagos; a property development company focused on residential property development.

He is also the founder of the crystal shelter initiative; a non-profit initiative focused on providing subsidized and affordable housing to essential workers in the society.

With over 9 years in the property development industry, AbdulJabbar is an integrator of the disciplines of property marketing, construction technology and project management with a technical understanding of the considerations associated with management, design and development of property.

Olajumoke Akinwunmi has over 25 years of experience in the real estate sector as an architect, investment adviser, and development manager. She is co-founder of Alitheia Capital, a Nigeria-based investment advisory and management firm. In the past decade, the firm has amongst others, made investments that promote financial inclusion through a financial services fund, encouraged environmental sustainability through a clean energy fund and is currently managing a gender-focused SME fund, providing growth capital to women owned/led businesses.

Jumoke was in public service for six-years up to 2019, and at different times during this period was Managing Director of the Family Homes Funds, a N500billion Federal Government-backed housing program whose mandate is to stimulate the economy through housing delivery, Ogun State Director General of the Bureau of Lands and Survey, Special Adviser Housing Development and General Manager of Ogun State Housing Corporation. She brought her process-driven approach to bear in public service and led some of the critical interventions that resulted in the State rising from the last, to one of the top four reforming States on the World Bank Ease of Doing Business survey, in two years.

Sustainability plays a big role in the work she does – assisting a State Government to qualify for funding for a large-scale reforestation program, co-chairing the IE Sector on the World Bank P4R Programme for a State Government, investing in a pilot program for passive affordable housing and establishing a building components factory delivering several hundred affordable classrooms in more than 100 public schools.

Previously, she practiced architecture in the firms of ACCL and James Cubitt Architects and was pioneer property development manager at the Shell Pension Fund, before joining Nigeria’s largest indigenous energy company, where she set up its real estate subsidiary, providing corporate real estate services, an organisation she headed until 2007.

She represents the interests of sponsors as Project Development Manager on large-scale green and brownfield commercial projects.

Alitheia is committed to gender equity and addressing the systemic issues that keep women at a disadvantage in the sectors that the company is involved in. She has designed and led several ‘homegrown’ interventions in the affordable housing ecosystem and continues to work with others to address specific pain points in the delivery and offtake value chains.

She is Non-Executive Director at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Chairman of Purple Nigeria, Chairman of the Advisory Board for Real Estate Unite, Co-Founder Alitheia Dev. Co. and founder of the non-profit, BuildHerNG

I am currently the Special Assistant to the Governor of Akwa-Ibom State on Entrepreneurial Development, Directorate of Marketing, and Brand Management.

A Corporate Communication Expert, Digital Marketer & Strategist, Documentary Film Maker, Tv Presenter, Artiste, Content Curator, Coach and Advisor.

I have trained a global network of intelligent professionals who identify communication needs and assist in developing concepts that are measurable to complement strategic entrepreneurial goals as GALE MULTIMEDIA CEO and Founder of GALE pay and GALELYN

I am also an experienced and motivated professional with exceptional leadership and interpersonal abilities who currently has an oversight function over an Entrepreneurial Development initiative MEGP (My entrepreneurial goal program) that focuses on providing continuous and sustainable engagement to a large segment of entrepreneurs and youth in the southern region of Nigeria.

MEGP leverages Entrepreneurship Education, Digital Skills Training, Accelerator Models, Mentoring Labs and explores Social investments for Societal Advancement. I recently launched a story prize competition via an information aggregator model to assist Entrepreneurs scale . Please CLICK www.meflynanwana.com to Find AfricaN Entrepreneurs.

Olayide Agboola, also known as Laide or LA is a transformational Nigerian Entrepreneur and finance executive who has driven impact across multiple corporations and in various roles---corporate finance, asset management, investment banking, real estate and now lifestyle development. He is a financial expert and thorough bred investment banker with diverse experience in the full array of investment banking and wealth management services. He has delivered significant business value through diversity and inclusion, excellence and talent development. He has strengthened the finance pipeline of talent, capabilities, and culture by pioneering the design and implementation of people development and mentorship frameworks, diversity and inclusion, and culture programs. Prior to joining Purple, Laide Agboola held various executive roles at IBTC Asset Management Limited (now Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc), Investment Banking and Trust Company Limited (now Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc), Stanbic Capital Limited, UBA Global Markets Limited (now United Capital Plc), Alitheia Capital Limited, BGL Plc and Managing Partner and Founder, Alternative Capital Partners Limited.

Knight Frank, the largest privately owned real estate and consultancy agency in the world was founded in 1896 in London as a real estate valuation, surveying and auctioneering firm. In the 1960s the firm expanded into Nigeria. Decades later it has extended its reach into Asia Pacific Australia, other African countries and the Caribbean.

Today Knight Frank is widely regarded as an international real estate firm of choice, with its headquarters in London. The firm has 519 offices across 60 territories and more than 19,000 employees managing assets valued at over $80 billion annually. Our portfolio consists of commercial, residential and industrial real estate. We advise numerous clients from individual owners and buyers to major property developers.

Each firm within the group operates as an autonomous entity, but remains welded to the group’s core objectives of exploring and leverage opportunities for sustained and sustainable global growth.

Knight Frank Nigeria, being the first office of the global firm outside the United Kingdom was founded on February 01, 1965 by Alan J. Shelley. It has since grown to be the largest firm of chartered estate surveyors and valuers in Nigeria. The growth of the organization has been anchored on professionalism and integrity. We run a practice, that provides Valuation/ Advisory services in all aspects of estate surveying.

Our Senior Partner/ CEO is in charge of overall administration of the firm which has Valuation and Advisory service department, Property and Facility Management, with Capital Markets department as its core professional department.

Knight Frank Nigeria currently has branches in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. Each branch is run by seasoned Estate Surveyors and Valuers who are supported by well trained staff.

For more details and/or to schedule a tour of any of our listed properties, or to list a property of your own, from anywhere in the world; please call or WHATSAPP a KNIGHT FRANK NIGERIA representative on +2347014962507 or +2347014962512, info@ng.knightfrank.com

According to a statement, Ojo has over 20 years of experience in the property development, assets management, and housing industry, and worked in different property companies across three continents. He has at various times worked with Eagle Hills, Abu Dhabi, Ocean & Oil Holdings (Oando), and most recently, as the Chief Executive Officer, Alaro City, Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in real estate from the University of Lagos, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree also from the University of Lagos’ Business School. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, Nigeria, and International Facilities Management Association, USA. Ojo was announced as the Managing Director of UPDC resulting from the company’s strategy to reposition the Group. The statement also thanked Deborah Nicol—Omeruah for a good job in steering the company aright whilst she acted as the Managing Director.

Ayo Ibaru is the Chief Operating Officer and Director, Research at Northcourt where he oversees all research endeavors and the operational framework underpinning the firm’s core divisions to provide solutions for governments, corporates and private investors. He holds an undergraduate degree in Estate Management and an MBA from the University of Lagos. His previous roles were at Diamond bank (Value Assurance, Insights and Innovation) where he developed frameworks for increased revenue and policy efficiency. At Stanbic IBTC bank, he was part of the Custody/Investor services business where he managed equity and fixed income investments for institutional clients. He also managed enterprise costs at Stanbic IBTC Holding Company. He is a member of the Society of Property Researchers.With a background in Investment Banking and broad experience in financial instruments, costs management, he leverages networks and relationships across industries & his track record on leading teams to achieve development goals. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Society of Property Researchers. Ayo is a sucker for economics, psychology and property.

Jide Adekola is one of the co-founders of the company, A registered Architect and member of the Nigeria institute of Architects (NIA), he has gathered years of hands of experience in Architectural Consultancy , Project Management and construction with some of the topmost Architectural and Real Estate firms in the country. With relevant qualification in Risk Management, Prince 2 at practitioner level and Health and safety Management in Construction, he also holds master degrees in both Property Development from Birmingham city University, UK and Architecture from University of Lagos. Jide has worked as project Architect at Adeniyi Coker Consultants Ltd. (ACCL), Head of projects at Crown Realties Plc and Manager planning and commercial development at Legacy Realties Ltd.

Uzo Oshogwe is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Afriland Properties Plc, a leading property management, investment and development company with a portfolio size of over N10 billion. Before joining Afriland Properties, Uzo held leadership positions in the following organizations: UBA PLC, Ford Motors UK, J. Sainbury’s UK and Accenture UK. Uzo holds a professional certificate in Real Estate Management from Harvard Business School, she is an RICS accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants and attended the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) from Lagos Business School/Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires.

Sonae Sierra is an international real estate company committed to delivering solutions to meet its client ambitions. Sonae Sierra develops, manages and invest in sustainable assets and provide investment, architecture & engineering and property management services for clients in geographies as diverse as Europe, South America, North Africa and Asia, while creating shared value for its business and society. At Sonae Sierra they identify market opportunities, partner with real estate investors and deliver real estate services covering the full property lifecycle. This allows them to implement their know-how and international experience to develop innovative products that create value for our clients and other stakeholders. Sonae Sierra operates from corporate offices located in more than 10 locations providing services to clients in geographies as diverse as Europe, South America, North Africa and Asia.

Paul is the Group Chief Executive Officer and founder of The Landmark Group. He began his career in the ‘built environment’ with a formal education in Architecture, Property Development and Construction Management, together with a London Business School MBA merit in “Value Engineering”. Paul has over 25 years of professional experience of design and execution of projects in Africa, USA and Europe. He served as Development Director with Beacon Housing, in the UK. Paul was the Executive with responsibility for the Property and Logistics team of Regus Plc during its rapid expansion years, which oversaw the opening of 190 business centers globally. He has expert knowledge of commercial property and workplace management and led Landmark’s expansion into America, Europe and Africa, has raised in excess of $100m of funding for Landmark and grown the company to achieve a PWC endorsed book valuation in excess of $300M. Paul is an African business leader, with a deep and passionate interest in real estate in Africa driven by his goal to create the first pan African real estate and service organisation themed on his live, work and play philosophy. Landmark Lagos was endorsed by the BBC, Euromoney and African Property Investment Summit as the most visited business, leisure and lifestyle destination on the West African coastline.

Tosin Ajose is a business lawyer with over a decade experience. She is well known for her commercial savvy, excellent analytical skills, vast transactional experience and her relentless desire to add value to her clients through innovative solutions, forward thinking and attention to details. An astute public speaker and an IFLR ranked leading lawyer in financial restructuring and capital markets, Tosin has over 500 high value transactions to her credit across, corporate commercial, mergers & acquisition, private equity, capital markets, real estate, finance(project/corporate) and infrastructure practice areas. Tosin, is a Partner and the Lead Advisor at DealHQ Partners, an Africa-focused transaction advisory firm in Lagos, Nigeria. She was recognized at the Nigerian Legal Awards as one of 40 under 40 lawyers in Nigeria in 2018 and in 2019 she was named “the Africa Woman in Real Estate” by API, South Africa. Tosin, has done extensive policy work in the Financial Services space, first as a Legal Enabler under the Central Bank of Nigeria’s FSS 2020 initiative, subsequently as a professional member of the National Housing Finance Programme set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance with a mandate to overhaul the Nigerian mortgage finance sector, she is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the African Proptech Forum, a member of SEC Committee on Market Infrastructure and Commodities and a volunteer with the Presidential Delivery Unit, office of the President Federal Republic of Nigeria and a member of the housing and urban development thematic group of the National Economic Summit Group.

This is Dr. Omoayena Odunbaku, an Urban and Regional Planning Professional, researcher, author and gender advocate. She is the Programme Management Officer for Human Settlements, Anglophone West Africa for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). Dr. Omoayena was a lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Lagos, and the Department of Town Planning, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ojere in Ogun State… Experience in the Implementation of the Strengthening Partnership component of the Africa Urban Agenda (AUA). Support countries to prepare their Habitat III National reports. Support the synthesis of the African Regional Report. Organize practical research component which fit into the Africa Regional PrepCom for Habitat III. Design core training packages for the Habitat Agenda Partners Training and Capacity Development Unit. Engage with key institutional partners in the African region to develop appropriate pro-urban narratives. Organize inter-governmental urban development processes and prepare related meetings, communications, reports and background documents.

With over 19years of demonstrable experience in Property and Facility Management, Gbadunade is recognised for exceptional leadership and collaborative skills. She is an FM professional with vast knowledge and understanding of world-class best practices.

In 2015, Gbadunade successfully set up James Cubitt Facility Managers, the facility management arm of the James Cubitt Group. She passionately runs the FM organisation and possess a knack for bringing down operational costs while maintaining and enhancing asset value.

Gbadunade brings onboard experience garnered across two continents (Europe and Africa). She worked for London Borough of Barnet, Westminster Council, William Sutton Trust, South African Property/ Real Estate Company, Broll and Oando Plc.

She is a graduate of Chemistry from the University of Ibadan, a member of the British institute of Facility Management with an Advanced Certificate in Facilities Management and Planning from the University of Lagos. She has a membership in the international Facility Management Association (IFMA) and a certification in the Owners-Managers Program from the Lagos Business School.

Leveraging her credential and expertise in property and facility management, she has made JCFM a competitive and sustainable company. Gbadunade is the Director of James Cubitt Facility Managers.

Ayobami Alo is the CEO of Elan Orris Real Estate Ltd, a young & innovative company in Lagos - Nigeria with an intention to reshape real estate functionality in Africa with cutting edge ideas. Prior to being a business owner, Ayobami was a salesman, an individual driven by growth with a wide experience that cuts across Sales, Land acquisition, Product branding, Negotiation and more. He is a graduate of Geophysics but moving into the world of selling in 2008 with zero experience revealed that "advancement truly occurs when an individual does not cease to engage in personal development". Having worked in over seven organizations across industries like Water Engineering, Insurance, ICT and Real Estate, he gathered useful experience that turned him today into a valuable Sales Expert and Business Leader. Ayobami started off his progressive career by working as a marketing executive at Crusader Insurance Plc, then a sales executive at AIICO Insurance Plc and head of sales at Infinion Technologies Limited, also as head of marketing at KingsCourt Realtors and later a business development executive at Propertymart Real Estate Investment Limited, finally a sales manager at Grenadines Homes Limited.

Sade Hughes has over 25 years’ experience in real estate development. She studied Architecture at the University of Lagos, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Boston. She holds a Certificate in Interior Design from the KLC School of Interior Design London. Before joining Mixta Africa, she was the founding CEO of Briscoe Properties Limited – a position she held for 11 years where she led the transformation of a small-scale facility management company into a full-fledged property development company.

Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani is the Chief Commercial Officer of Mixta Africa, helping the group craft and execute the commercial and market development strategy for its real estate, infrastructure and housing projects across Mixta’s 5 African subsidiaries and its key hospitality asset, Lakowe Lakes Golf and Country Estate. In addition, she leads in the identification of new commercial, partnership, and market opportunities, to deepen market penetration, develop demand-side acquisition financing strategies, drive revenue growth, brand visibility and profitability. She is also the overseeing HQ executive for Mixta’s operating subsidiaries in Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire.

She is a strategic leader with more than 15 years’ experience and track record of helping to finance, invest in and successfully scale businesses in Africa. Prior to joining Mixta Africa, She was Senior Africa Advisor to the IFU Danish Investment Fund, helping to build strong partnerships with the private and public sector and originate portfolio opportunities. She was also Head of Energy at FBN Capital and FBNQuest Merchant Bank from 2014 – 2019, leading origination and client coverage efforts with energy and infrastructure clients across investment banking and corporate banking products, to successfully raise both debt and equity capital.

Rukaiya El-Rufai is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MPA from the prestigious London School of Economics & Political Science and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. Rukaiya has many years of experience in consulting and blue-chip companies in the Nigerian telecommunications industry where she held various roles. As a Partner, she will be leading the firm’s Sustainability and Climate Change Practice and Public Sector Risk Assurance Services. She will support in developing new service offerings and harnessing opportunities across lines of services in various industries. Rukaiya El-Rufai has joined the elite partnership of PricewaterhouseCoopers Nigeria, making her the first female from the northern region to be elevated to such a position in a ‘big four’ accounting firm. Prior to the admission, Rukaiya worked at the company as the Associate Director of Risk Advisory and Head of Sustainability. PwC is the second largest professional services firm in the world and the largest in Africa with operations in 157 countries. It provides a broad range of services related to auditing and assurance, taxes, consultancy, private wealth, business management, and so on. In Nigeria, it has over 1,000 employees and, with the latest admissions, close to 40 partners.

The new Managing Director/CEO of Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC), Hon. Ayodeji Joseph has resumed duty, pledging to increase the earnings of the Corporation. He also promised to place utmost importance on staff welfare, according to a statement issued by LSDPC’s Head Public Relations & Media, Sulayman Deji-Etiwe. The statement said Joseph was a former Senior Banking Officer at Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, a two-term Executive Chairman of Apapa Local Government, and that he served one term as a member of House of Representative and later as a Special Assistant at Office of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Abuja. He studied Geography and Planning where he bagged his Bachelor’s Degree at Lagos State University. He went further to obtain a Masters Degree from the University of Lagos.“With his vast wealth of experience drawn from the private and public sector, he is well set to take the Corporation to the next level,” the statement said. Also, Mr. Adeola Olusodo has been newly appointed Executive Director, Joint Venture & Business Development of the Corporation.

Dolapo Omidire is the Founder and Team Lead at Estate Intel. He spent over 2 years at Broll in Nigeria as the Lead Research Analyst working on market and feasibility studies for international and local institutional real estate investors. Dolapo also spent over a year at AXA Mansard Investments as an Alternative Investment Analyst. Dolapo is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (UK) with a specialty in Commercial Property Research and also holds a BSc in Investment and Finance in Property from the University of Reading, UK.

Mr Olufore is the Managing Director of Alpha mead facilities. He has over 27 years cognate experience handling various contracts and procurement management, administrative and dynamic leadership roles with careers in the Oil and gas industry, Banking and Real Estate Services. He has worked in Shell Nigeria, British Gas UK, United bank for Africa and Centrica Energy where he was Contracts and Procurement Manager as well as Acting Country Manager before joining Alphamead Facilities in 2011 as General Manager Commercial. In 2016, he became the Executive Director Commercial with responsibilities for Group Supply Chain Management, Corporate Real Estate, International Business, Business Development and Training. He held this position until his appointment as the MD/CEO of Alphamead Facilities & Management Services in January 2019. He holds an MBA from Nottingham Trent University in the UK and is a member professional bodies namely African Centre for Supply Chain, Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, (CIPS) London, American Management Association (AMA) and the International Association of Contracts and Commercial Management (IACCM).

Dr. Kennedy Nnadi CEO Pennek Nigeria one of Nigeria foremost real estate company with over 10 estates in Nigeria.He has over a decade of experience in running a successful business in Nigeria across industries. Kennedy is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School Nigeria and Strathmore Business School, Kenya. He is currently undergoing an Executive Management Programme at the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.He is a member of Nigerian Institute of Management and the Chartered Institute of Auctioneers of Nigeria. Kennedy is one of the organizers of the international body called FODION ( Foreign Direct Investment Opportunities in Nigeria) where he usually host an annual trade fair in diaspora for foreigners to invest in opportunities in Nigeria especially in the Real Estate Sector. He was nominated as one of the young entrepreneurs under 35years old to meet with the President under the YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP STRATEGY (YES) Program. He is one of the Africans to be at the pioneer OBAMA FOUNDATION SUMMIT in Chicago, USA. Kennedy Nnadi would be at the 6th Hive Global Leaders Program in Africa.

Lanre is a Director at Trillium Real Estate Partners, a Nigerian real estate services firm and an affiliate of Jones Lang LaSalle(JLL). He joined JLL in 2018. He was responsible for delivering the whole suite of JLL’s services to occupiers, developers and investors within West Africa. Lanre has led several tenant representation processes for multi national firms. Prior to this, Lanre was the Acting CEO of Africa Real Estate Investment & Asset Management (ARIA), the asset management subsidiary of the Persianas Group, a developer of commercial real estate in Nigeria. He was a Principal in the Corporate & Institutional Clients team at Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria where he provided financing solution s to Nigerian corporates and real estate firms. He was previously responsible for the Debt Capital Markets business of Standard Chartered in West Africa, raising bonds for corporates and sub nationals. Lanre began his career within the Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs International in London where he was an Analyst and then an Associate in the European Structured Finance Group. At Goldman Sachs, he executed various construction and development financings for developers in the UK and the US. Lanre has 14 years of experience in the capital markets (across the EMEA region) and has spent the last 8 years structuring, executing and financing real estate transactions in West Africa.

Tilda is a Research Associate at Estate Intel, in charge of the team’s research and insights. She is also responsible for analysing macro-economic and real estate data to generate high level insights on the real estate market across Sub-Saharan Africa. Her knowledge and experience spans all real estate sectors and includes key markets across East, West, South and North Africa.Tilda holds a Bachelors in Real Estate from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing an MSC in Analytics and Consultancy from Heriot Watt University.

Shola Bello was previously the has 15 years’ management experience in Business Development and Operations, with comprehensive skill in managing cross-functional business operations, project planning & execution. Her area of focus has been Consulting & Business Management for SMEs, with a proven ability to motivate teams and drive revenue growth through operational excellence and outstanding customer service delivery. Her experience spans across various sectors in Real Estate, Non-profit, Fashion, Telecommunications, Media and Automobile services both in the U.S and Nigeria. Prior to joining Landwey, her most recent work as Coordinating Manager at Freedom Foundation, she represented Nigeria at the 28th Session of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice in Vienna to present the outcome of the Foundation’s rehabilitation program for victims of human trafficking. Ms. Bello served as the VP of Projects for the Nigerian Business Forum, North America (2006-2007). NBF was a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization dedicated to providing a forum for individuals to exchange ideas and information with the ultimate goal of contributing towards the economic growth of Nigeria through entrepreneurship, attracting human capital to Nigeria, helping individuals invest in the country and promoting the nation’s progress.

Adaku Chibuike-Ochiuwa is a legal practitioner and Senior Partner at The Priceless Chamber, with over 10 years experience in handling real estate transactions. Her services includes drafting, carrying out comprehensive review of Real Estate transactions, contracts and agreements. She also specialises in carrying out and overseeing regulatory compliance on real estate transactions, real estate documents, and instruments of title. She is also the founder of Omoge initiative, a platform through which she and her team has educated, trained, empowered, and mentored over one thousand girls in underprivileged communities with vocational and leadership skills over the last ten years.

Jamila holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Building, from the Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru, Zaria. She is a graduate member of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB). She has attended many training programs both locally and internationally including Building Businesses in Turbulent Times (BBTT) at the Harvard Business School, Boston, MA in the United States of America and Project Management training in CPMS, Lagos. She is presently undergoing training for the PMP with the Project Management Institute. She joined the company in 2005 and has served in various capacities as a Planning Engineer, Project Manager, Operations Manager and currently the Chief Operating Officer, M & E Kaiser Limited (The Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing Installation Unit of the Kaiser Family).

Tunde Daniel Balogun is an astute entrepreneur, dogged real estate expert and a proficient business analyst. Charged with an overwhelming passion for changing and redefining the murky, disarrayed and outdated real estate system in Nigeria, he Co-founded RentSmallSmall, a Techstars backed real estate company that leverages on technology to provide solutions including property letting services which allows tenants to pay rent monthly whilst providing vetted quality tenants for Landlords. RentSmallSmall also launched Buy2Let, a property investment solution that allows Landlords to buy high yield investment properties and start earning guaranteed rent from day one of purchase.

Prior to founding RentSmallSmall, Tunde Balogun co-founded Unique Edge Management, a property management company based in Bangkok that managed a staggering portfolio of over 200 luxury properties in the U.S.A and Thailand before he moved back to Nigeria in 2015.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Management as well as a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Stamford University. He is a recipient of the 2012 edition of the Clinton Global Initiative held in Washington D.C. He is a Global Ambassador for JumpStart Africa, an empowerment program dedicated to bolstering young Africans for leadership roles and opportunities, as well as in business and entrepreneurship. He is also an executive director with Youths 4 Change, a movement that was created and borne out of the need to strategically implement changes in the socio-economic, and cultural maladies that ails our immediate environment and wider contexts within the country.

John Oamen is the CEO of Cutstruct Technology the creators of LiveVend disrupting the construction industry by simplifying how stakeholders buy, hire for and manage their projects. He is strong believer in process as the bedrock for all desired outcomes like cost savings, ease of doing business, efficiency in any area of endeavor Anne particularly in construction. You. Arrive at the end goal by observing the day-to-day principles of success in any field. He believes people don’t get to their desired outcomes as a result of excessive focusing on those outcomes while ignoring the little details He has 15 years and counting experience in real estate construction and logistics management an EXCO member of Proptech Nigeria, he founded Faultless Finish Limited, where he built a project finishing reputation, establishing a name as an industry leader in finishing and home completion space. As an aspiring business leader, he decided to apply to the illustrious Lagos Business School to hone his business leadership skills and network with other like minds and more established business leaders. He is a firm believer that we are more influenced by the company we keep more than most realize and makes a conscious effort to keep a strong network of game changers at every point in his life.

Muyideen is on a mission to digitize the built environment, archive and record Nigerian stories and help local communities grow together. He currently does this through - GatePass - automating payments for property managers while giving residents tools to hold their administrators accountable; - The Memory Room - Archiving the past and the present for the future using pictures, videos, VR and AR; - NIPROPTECH - Enabling partnerships between proptech startups within the ecosystem He is an experienced consultant and founder with over eight years of experience at leading organizations - Research Analyst at Broll, Management Consultant and KPMG and Chief of Staff at Lotus Bank. He has worked across industries - Real Estate, Utilities, Energy and Financial Services; and built multiple competencies and skills - Digital Governance & Operating Model design, Digital Transformation, Cost Optimisation, Financial Modeling, Market Research, Strategy Articulation and Facilitation. In his free time, he is a CrossFit coach at the only Nigerian affiliate, CrossFit Jagun and captures important memories and bits of history through photography

Sean is a property professional who has spent a decade working in various sectors of the property industry, in South Africa and the UK. He lived in London for the 4 years and relocated back to Johannesburg in early 2017. Most of his professional experience has been in property market analysis where he has developed a strong understanding of property markets and an interest in what makes them tick. More specifically, has a strong interest in cities and emerging economies. Sean is passionate about South Africa, Africa, poverty alleviation, and education. Throughout his professional career he has maintained voluntary involvement with various industry and business bodies. He sits on the executive committee of the South Africa Chamber of Commerce in the UK, where he actively looks to promote and facilitate business and charitable activity between the UK and South Africa, and further afield. Within this, he is passionate about promoting the African property industry and the opportunities it holds. He is also passionate about promoting and connecting proptech communities in SA and Africa. To this end, he is a cofounder of SA Proptech and Proptech Africa.

Tola is the co-founder and CEO at Spleet, a financial services and prop-tech startup fractionalizing rent into monthly payments. Tola is an accomplished product manager and designer with over 11 years of experience working on products in the fintech, real estate and banking industry. In addition to product management and design, Tola has experience in operations management and project coordination. His passion for solving problems in Africa and for social impact led him to create Spleet: a property tech company that is changing the way people rent homes in Nigeria and beyond. Tola is an avid chess player and a collector and enthusiast of contemporary African art.

Dotun Carew is currently the Managing Director of James Cubitt Resources (JCR). He has over 20 years’ career experience within the financial services and real estate sectors including key areas such as mortgage finance, project finance, facility management, construction, design management, project management, business service outsourcing etc. Oludotun has a B.Sc. in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He is a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner (Office of Government Commerce, United Kingdom). He is a member of Association of Accredited Small Business Consultants and the Institute of Personality Development and Customer Relationship.

Praise Darego is an Associate at DealHQ Partners, an African focused transaction advisory law firm that provides bespoke legal and business advisory services to national and international clients. Praise builds specialty in advising a wide array of clients cutting across Real Estate and Infrastructure, Project and Corporate Finance, Private Equity and Commercial Law Practice. Praise is also a member of the management team of three charitable organizations that focus on providing access to health care, academic materials, and technology skills to kids from different walks of life. As a young professional, Praise exudes exceptional level of discipline, hard work and professionalism. His dedication and ability to unravel complex transactions have earned him recognition in his fields. Praise enjoys public speaking, writing and teaching and has used these skills to make positive impact over the years.

Ope is a graduate of Business Management and Information Technology from the University of Hull. Ope has been with the Purple Group since its inception playing a major part in the development and implementation of the company’s business strategy. He played an active role in the development and finance of the Group’s Real Estate portfolio, including Purple Maryland and Purple Lekki as well as the establishment of Purplemoney, A CBN licensed Microfinance Bank.Ope is currently the COO of Proptech, digitizing the Purple product range for a whole new audience online.

Monsurat Muhammed is an innovative finance professional with over 14 years working experience in the banking industry covering marketing, credit risk management, enterprise risk management, corporate finance and business strategy. Currently the Head of Business Development and Marketing at FHA Mortgage Bank Limited, responsible for the business/revenue growth and expansion of the Bank. I started my career in Access Bank under the Wealth Management Group. A graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University and having a Masters degree in International Development Studies from the University of Portsmouth UK,an MBA from the University of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland. She attended various executive courses in Housing Finance course at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt Germany and the Affordable Housing Finance Policy at the Harvard Business School. Monsurat is enthusiastic about applying cross cutting innovation in affordable housing finance and development with its impact in poverty reduction and employment generation in Nigeria, improving the standard of living of the ordinary citizen.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FINANCE, STRATEGY AND COMMERCIALS Seyi is a highly accomplished, result-driven senior accounting and financial management executive with over a decade of progressive experience in finance operations management within startups and global organisations. She is a graduate of Accounting from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. After which she obtained her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from School of Management, Bradford University, UK. As an Accountant and Auditor with Abraaj Group, Ernst & Young and Olayinka Osibodu she gained experience in improving the financial performance of organisations, optimising productivity and internal control as well as guiding finance teams, developing and implementing financial controls and processes. Her outstanding leadership,communication and interpersonal skills also makes her an asset to any organisation.She is a Fellow of The Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), UK and anAssociate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria(ICAN). She currently functions as the Finance Director for Purple Group

Obinna Onunkwo is a seasoned securities specialist with almost 20 years of experience in investment management. He has a rich background in investment banking, asset management, agri-commodity exports, equities research and trading. He has over the years played active roles as lead fund manager in various corporate actions. A serial entrepreneur, Obinna has been instrumental in the setting up of various financial houses including Guardian Express Trust, Alternative Capital Partners, Spring Capital Markets amongst others. Obinna has an Executive MBA from Lagos Business School, a Cum Laude degree in Economics from the University of Port Harcourt and has also undertaken courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, California, USA. He has played active governance roles on the boards of other companies including the board of Law Union & Rock Plc, where he headed the Risk Management board committee and the Technical Committee for corporate transformation. Currently, Obinna is a Founding Managing Partner and Director at Purple, where he has spearheaded the company’s growth in real estate and especially financial services. He is a co-founder and Managing Director of “Purplemoney”, a CBN Licensed retail lending microfinance institution. Obinna is also a chief promoter of the Microfinance Development Company Limited a consortium of leading Microfinance Banks in Nigeria.

Greg graduated from The School of Architecture at The University of KwaZulu Natal in 1991. He is a founding member of SAOTA that has a global footprint with projects on six continents.

Greg’s current focus is on work in Brazil, Africa, Russia and China. He has been invited as a speaker to present SAOTA’s work to audiences in London, Lagos, Malaysia and Mexico and is a champion of SAOTA’s bursary program which has awarded 35 bursaries to more than 20 students of architecture. Greg is also a founding member of ARRCC Interior Architecture and Design Studio and OKHA Furniture Design Studio.

Ayo Akinmade is the Executive Vice Chairman, Regus in Nigeria. He has held this position since November 2016 when he merged his successful Regus franchise operations, with the globally acclaimed leaders in virtual office services. Before November 2016, he had operated his Regus franchise from 2007 to 2016 covering operations in Nigeria and Ghana, with locations in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Accra.

Ayo has over three decades of investment experience in West African markets, managing business interests across E-commerce, Oil & Gas, IT and Financial Advisory Services. He serves on the board of several businesses including Mallforafrica, Frontier Capital, Savant Integrated Services Ltd, Doheney Services Ltd, Saro AgroSciences Ltd, Blueprint Business Technologies Ltd amongst others.

He trained with Price Waterhouse in the mid-eighties, worked in banking with International Merchant Bank in Nigeria in the late eighties, and for a decade, worked in the United Kingdom in Value Management & Audit roles with Milk Marketing Board and Milk Marque Ltd. He was also a Change Management Consultant in the UK, for over from 1995 to 2000, working with companies such as Ryder Plc and British Airways.

Ayo Akinmade holds a first degree in Economics from the University of Ife (1984), completed his ICAN professional examinations in May 1988 (PE II - Best overall student in Nigeria) and was awarded fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in 1993. His MBA program at the Kingston University, London in 1993 specialized in Change Management.

He is married with kids and is passionate about helping young entrepreneurs achieve their business objectives.

Tochi Adesanya is a business strategist with over 10+ years in the Technology industry. His first startup project was Scoolware in 2011, where he went on to join CBC EMEA a technology company as their business development executive. He led the company to drive education technology in some tertiary institutions in Nigeria, working with notable OEM like Huawei Technology, and IBM He joined the real estate market in 2016, selling building material and later started managing properties for some landlords in 2018 which Led him to his current startup, Liveizy. He is currently the founder and CEO of Liveizy Limited, a Proptech company providing first of its kind ERP cloud based management solution for the home rental market.

Henry Onyeche is an experienced sales and marketing manager, project manager, strategist and people manager. Earlier in his career, he worked with Globacom Nigeria where his consistent achievement of business objectives and success in expanding channel business breadth and depth was acknowledged by management who then transferred him to the Republic of Benin to launch a new telecoms operation, Glo Mobile Benin. He worked exceptionally in the marketing and in the sales departments of Globacom in the Republic of Benin for 5 years, developed products and promotions, managed prepaid, postpaid and VAS subscribers, channel partners and led the national sales activation team comprising 70 field sales and back office operations staff. He developed a blue print for SIM registration and activation, and helped grow company revenue, subscriber base and market share from 5th to 2nd. At Samsung, he developed channel business in French speaking Republic of Benin, Togo, Chad and in Nigeria, engaged and managed distributors, channel partners (wholesale, retail, B2B, e-commerce), and strategic key partners. He now leads high priority sales initiatives, including channel structure, annual strategic planning, analytics, goal setting, quota setting, go-to-market strategy, consulting, Field Force management and sales incentive design.