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Outperform: Strategies for Exponential Growth in Africa

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Biodun Shobanjo
Keynote Speaker
Biodun Shobanjo
Keynote Speaker
Biodun Shobanjo
Keynote Speaker
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Abiodun Olusina Shobanjo, M.Inst. M M.I.P.R served as the Deputy Managing Director of Grant Advertising. Mr. Shobanjo joined the Client Service Department of Grant Advertising in 1971. He commenced his communications career in the programmes department of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation.

In 1980, he set up Insight Communications Limited with the vision to revolutionize the Nigerian advertising industry. Almost a decade later, Mr. Shobanjo incorporated Troyka as a holding company for the various marketing and management service companies already in existence and others later to be set up. With quality investment in people and a host of worthy global affiliations, he has positioned the Troyka Unit Companies in the right capacity to serve by partnering with clients to build brands and businesses with integrity and professionalism.

He serves as the Chairman of TROYKA Holdings Limited. Mr. Shobanjo serves as Vice Chairman of Insight Communications. He serves as both the Director and chairman of TROYKA Holdings Limited. He is a member of The British Institute of Public Relation (IPR); The British Institute of Marketing; International Advertising Association; Advertising practitioners Council of Nigeria and Commonwealth Journalists Association. He brings almost forty years of corporate experience, entrepreneurial savvy, multi-disciplinary industry experience.

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Tara Fela-Durotoye
Break Out Session on Building Structures that Scale
Tara Fela-Durotoye
Break Out Session on Building Structures that Scale
Tara Fela-Durotoye
Break Out Session on Building Structures that Scale
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Tara Fela-Durotoye is a Nigerian lawyer and beauty entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of the popular beauty company, House of Tara International (HOT) and was named one of Forbe’s ’20 Young Power African Women in 2013. Nothing short of a pioneer in the bridal makeup profession in Nigeria, Tara launched the first bridal directory in the year 1999. She also set up phenomenal makeup studios and established the first makeup school in Nigeria. Along with House of Tara, Tara Fela-Durotoye is the creative brain behind the Tara Orekelewa Beauty range, Inspired Perfume, and the H.I.P Beauty range.

In 2007, she was awarded the Africa SMME Award and the Entrepreneur award in South Africa. 2008 saw the 10th Anniversary, ‘Be Inspired’ Fragrance and in 2009 she started a branch network by opening branches of the business in Ikeja, Ibadan and Abuja. In the last 8 years, Tara Fela – Durotoye has launched the H.I.P range, partnered with Maybelline New York. The brand has developed a Multi Brand & Distribution Channel Strategy and organised the 1st ever Makeup in Nigeria Conference (MINC). HOT has launched a studio in Centro Mall, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, expanded to Kenya and features on CNN. House of Tara also expanded to Rwanda, opened a Corporate Headquarters and done its first makeup school training in Kenya. The list of achievements is endless, HOT still grows as the brand opened two branches in Key export markets, expanded to the USA and created a collaborative product (Pigments by Jide of St. Ola).

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Dr Anderson Uvie-Emegbo
Break Out Session on Developing a Winning Business and Marketing Strategy
Dr Anderson Uvie-Emegbo
Break Out Session on Developing a Winning Business and Marketing Strategy
Dr Anderson Uvie-Emegbo
Break Out Session on Developing a Winning Business and Marketing Strategy
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Dr. Uvie-Emegbo is a Senior Faculty of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), a Visiting Faculty at Strathmore Business School, Kenya and a Resource Faculty at Lagos Business School, Nigeria. He is a Senior Faculty and Dean, Digital School at Star Sapphire.

Dr Anderson received his Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) degree from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria. He is an alumnus of both IESE Business School, Spain and Lagos Business School, Nigeria. He has certifications in Customer Experience Management and Information Technology Business Management (ITBMC) from the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA and Belmont University, USA respectively. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Leading Innovation and Change from York St John University, United Kingdom. He has attended the Design Thinking Workshop at Harvard Business School as well as sessions in Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Uvie-Emegbo teaches digital banking, digital business, doing business in Africa, competitive strategy, disruptive innovation, change management, transformational leadership, services leadership, retail strategy, product development, coaching and mentoring, healthcare leadership, crisis management, and stakeholder engagement to executives, senior leaders and managers of leading multinational firms focused on Africa as well as African headquartered firms operating in and expanding within and outside Africa. Such firms include First City Monument Bank, Barclays Bank, Ecobank, Stanbic, Guaranty Trust Bank, First Bank of Nigeria, United Bank for Africa, Zenith Bank, Access Bank, Sterling Bank, Diamond Bank Ghana Commercial Bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana, Databank, Equity Bank Kenya, Kenya Commercial Bank, Chase Bank Kenya, Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Old Mutual-UAP Insurance Kenya, Old Mutual Ghana, AXA Mansard, Cornerstone Insurance, Coca Cola East, West and Central Africa, Coca-Cola Ethiopia, MTN, Airtel, Safaricom, Vodacom, Vodafone Ghana, AutoXpress Kenya, UAC Group, Sarova Hotel Group Kenya and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

Dr Uvie-Emegbo continues to serve as an independent quality assurance sounding board, in-house company business coach, retreat facilitator and keynote speaker. He has led executive retreats for the managing directors of the country subsidiaries of a number of banks in Africa. He is also an international conference speaker and has addressed Chief Executive Officers of the Top 100 Mid-Sized Companies in Kenya.

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Deji Agboade (Host)
Chief Host
Deji Agboade (Host)
Chief Host
Deji Agboade (Host)
Chief Host
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Deji Agboade, CEO BPI Advisory, Founder, Growth Lab Africa

Deji is a sustainable growth focused management consultant helping organisations navigate their respective business life cycles in a way that optimizes their performance.

As a qualified chartered accountant and advisory professional with over 16 years hands-on experience acquired across multiple industries, Deji started his career in KPMG Professional Services as a tax consultant and later transferred to the Business Advisory Services unit in the firm where he developed skills in Strategic Business Planning, Financial Modelling/ Projections, Business Process Review & Improvement, Organisation Design and Project Management.

His industry orientation includes oil and gas, financial services, telecommunications, infrastructure and government, consumer markets and the professional service industry as well as several functional areas such as Finance and Accounts Management, Procurement & Administration, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Deji has varied experience in assisting clients with business strategy articulation and documentation, business planning and financial modelling, business process re-engineering/ enterprise transformation, monitoring and reporting on client’s business performance, research and project management, recruitment, training and human resource management.

He is the convenor of the widely acclaimed GROWTH Workshop that helps business owners develop practical and applicable growth strategies as well as an implementation framework that encourages business owners to drive growth.

As a Pan Atlantic University alumnus, Deji serves as an expert-in-residence with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) advising growing businesses on strategies to improve their business performance.  In addition, Deji has also gained valuable experience working with the government across the Federal, State and Local levels.  He also works with the UK based DFID team working with the Federal Government of Nigeria on improving the nation’s infrastructure.  Through this platform, Deji has worked at the state and national level on several projects.

Deji seats on several boards and has also facilitated several business management lectures on several platforms across the country.  He is a competent resource person who brings to bear his analytical and problem resolution skills in delivering value to clients.

Team member
Fernando Madeira
–Break Out Session on Fund Raising and Financial Management for Growth
Fernando Madeira
–Break Out Session on Fund Raising and Financial Management for Growth
Fernando Madeira
–Break Out Session on Fund Raising and Financial Management for Growth
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South African Chartered Accountant CA(SA) born in Pretoria South Africa and raised and educated in Johannesburg.

After completing his articles of clerkship with over period of 5 years with GL Palmer and Company (Medium Sized Audit Firm) he expanded his experience in the financial services industry, first with an associate of Brait Merchant Bank as admin manager setting up unit trust funds in Swaziland and Botswana, then as Group Financial Consultant for ABSA Corporate and Merchant Bank head office responsible for the reporting of ABSA Treasury Functions and ABSA Singapore for 2 years before being seconded to Mozambique as Financial Manager for an ABSA acquisition in that country.

After having excelled in this role to CFO of ABSA Mozambique which then became known as Barclays Mozambique after 7 years, he took a sabatacle from Finance and joined SABMiller in Mozambique as Country Lead for New Business Development for 2,5 years.

In March 2012 he was promoted to General Manager of a brewery in Port Harcourt Nigeria known as PABOD Breweries. In 2013, he relocated to Swaziland as Business Development for USA Distillers for a short period. During 2013 to 2014, he performed various consulting jobs including Standard Bank in Angola and a Sales and Marketing Company for Sandals Resorts in the Caribbean based in Bahamas.

In 2014 he became Group Finance Executive for West Africa for Imperial Logistics Ltd, a South African Listed entity who had investments in Nigeria before being seconded to Mozambique for the same Group and Finance Director for one of its subsidiaries in the FMCG Sales and Distribution Sector. In 2016 he joined a Dubai based Real Estate and Hospitality Group as Finance Director for a USD 145 million-dollar real estate project in Mozambique. In 2017, he was approached by Glencore to become CFO of a start-up downstream Oil and Gas business in Nigeria known as Enyo Retail and Supply Ltd, position which he currently holds to date.

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Adenike Adeyemi
–Panel Session Anchor and Discussant on Key Elements for Driving Growth
Adenike Adeyemi
–Panel Session Anchor and Discussant on Key Elements for Driving Growth
Adenike Adeyemi
–Panel Session Anchor and Discussant on Key Elements for Driving Growth
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profit management, enterprise development, education and youth enablement strategies. As the Chief Executive Officer for FATE Foundation, she leads the fulfilment of the organisation’s mission to enable aspiring and emerging Nigerian entrepreneurs start, grow and scale their businesses.

Under her leadership, FATE has also expanded digital technology to support her entrepreneurs through programmes like the Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Digital for startups across the country; the msmehub.org free resource platform; and Sky’s The Limit which connects entrepreneurial leaders and professionals who provide pro-bono virtual enterprise knowledge and support to thousands of entrepreneurs across Nigeria.  She has also led the development of key multi-year funding and partnership arrangements with the Youth Business International, Facebook, Citi Foundation, Accenture, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Ford Foundation and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Netherlands.

Adenike’s previous experience includes Manager, Public & Development Sector Services, KPMG Nigeria; pioneer Executive Director, Nigeria Leadership Initiative; and Learning Support Programme Management at the New Jersey Educational Opportunity Program. She started her career 17 years ago with the West African NGO Network and has Interned at the New York based Africa America Institute.

Adenike has a Masters of Public Administration and a Masters of Arts in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University (2005) and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Ibadan (2001).

Adenike seats as a Chair/Board member/advisor on leading private and public sector Committees and Boards including the MSME Council Committee on Improving the Business Environment, Afritickets, WANGONeT and the Oxbridge Tutorial College Foundation.

 

Since joining the FATE in 2015, she has deepened the organisation’s strategic footprint in the Nigerian entrepreneurship ecosystem through business incubation programmes; sector programs for startups and high potential businesses; growth focused support; funding and technical linkages; accelerators; ecosystem research, policy dialogue and advocacy.

The failure rate of businesses in Africa is alarming! Also disturbing is the reality that most African entrepreneurs will, at best, build mediocre and ‘survival only’ businesses that will add value only to themselves and their household over the lifetime of the business.

We consider this a waste of human capacity and the sort of thinking that undermines the African people and keeps them poor. The question is: why build a business that only feeds one household when you can, with similar effort, build a business that feeds generations? The 10X Growth in Africa Conference (or “the Conference”) was born out of a passion to see African businesses grow and scale in a sustainable way.

Our goal is to equip African entrepreneurs with the skills they need to build truly enduring businesses that improves the lives of the people and communities around them.

Conference Focus

The 10X Growth in Africa Conference is envisaged as a full day event with over 700 entrepreneurs looking to learn growth ideas and concepts while connecting with other entrepreneurs in attendance. It will seek to bridge the knowledge and skill gap preventing most African businesses from scaling their businesses. Specifically, the conference will feature

Conference Features

Keynote Address

The keynote will be given by Mr Biodun Shobanjo, Chairman of Troyka Group of Companies. A man who has built several successful businesses in Africa.
This address will feature the speaker’s success story as well as key lessons learnt along the way.

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  • Keynote Address by Mr Biodun Shobanjo, Media Tycoon and Chairman of the Troyka Group of Companies

Abiodun Olusina Shobanjo, M.Inst. M M.I.P.R served as the Deputy Managing Director of Grant Advertising. Mr. Shobanjo joined the Client Service Department of Grant Advertising in 1971. He commenced his communications career in the programmes department of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation.

In 1980, he set up Insight Communications Limited with the vision to revolutionize the Nigerian advertising industry. Almost a decade later, Mr. Shobanjo incorporated Troyka as a holding company for the various marketing and management service companies already in existence and others later to be set up. With quality investment in people and a host of worthy global affiliations, he has positioned the Troyka Unit Companies in the right capacity to serve by partnering with clients to build brands and businesses with integrity and professionalism.

He serves as the Chairman of TROYKA Holdings Limited as well as Vice Chairman of Insight Communications. He is a member of The British Institute of Public Relation (IPR); The British Institute of Marketing; International Advertising Association; Advertising practitioners Council of Nigeria and Commonwealth Journalists Association.

He brings almost forty years of corporate experience, entrepreneurial savvy, multi-disciplinary industry experience.

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Panel Discussion

The conference will have one panel discussions addressing issues around how to overcome the challenges of doing business in Africa and build growth oriented businesses.
It will also feature questions from the audience in order to ensure that superior value is delivered to everyone.

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Masterclass

At the breakout session, subject matter experts will address business issues along the following lines:

–  Developing a Winning Business and Marketing Strategy
–  Fund Raising and Financial Management
–  Building Structures that Scale
–  People Management and their Role in Growth

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  • Break Out Session on Developing a Winning Business and Marketing Strategy by Dr Anderson Uvie-Emegbo

Dr. Uvie-Emegbo is a Senior Faculty of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), a Visiting Faculty at Strathmore Business School, Kenya and a Resource Faculty at Lagos Business School, Nigeria. He is a Senior Faculty and Dean, Digital School at Star Sapphire.

Dr Anderson received his Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) degree from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria. He is an alumnus of both IESE Business School, Spain and Lagos Business School, Nigeria. He has certifications in Customer Experience Management and Information Technology Business Management (ITBMC) from the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA and Belmont University, USA respectively. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Leading Innovation and Change from York St John University, United Kingdom. He has attended the Design Thinking Workshop at Harvard Business School as well as sessions in Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Uvie-Emegbo teaches digital banking, digital business, doing business in Africa, competitive strategy, disruptive innovation, change management, transformational leadership, services leadership, retail strategy, product development, coaching and mentoring, healthcare leadership, crisis management, and stakeholder engagement to executives, senior leaders and managers of leading multinational firms focused on Africa as well as African headquartered firms operating in and expanding within and outside Africa. Such firms include First City Monument Bank, Barclays Bank, Ecobank, Stanbic, Guaranty Trust Bank, First Bank of Nigeria, United Bank for Africa, Zenith Bank, Access Bank, Sterling Bank, Diamond Bank Ghana Commercial Bank, Fidelity Bank Ghana, Databank, Equity Bank Kenya, Kenya Commercial Bank, Chase Bank Kenya, Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Old Mutual-UAP Insurance Kenya, Old Mutual Ghana, AXA Mansard, Cornerstone Insurance, Coca Cola East, West and Central Africa, Coca-Cola Ethiopia, MTN, Airtel, Safaricom, Vodacom, Vodafone Ghana, AutoXpress Kenya, UAC Group, Sarova Hotel Group Kenya and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).

Dr Uvie-Emegbo continues to serve as an independent quality assurance sounding board, in-house company business coach, retreat facilitator and keynote speaker. He has led executive retreats for the managing directors of the country subsidiaries of a number of banks in Africa. He is also an international conference speaker and has addressed Chief Executive Officers of the Top 100 Mid-Sized Companies in Kenya.

 

  • Break Out Session on Building Structures that Scale by Tara Fela-Durotoye, CEO House of Tara

Tara Fela-Durotoye is a Nigerian lawyer and beauty entrepreneur.  She is the founder and CEO of the popular beauty company, House of Tara International (HOT) and was named one of Forbe’s ’20 Young Power African Women in 2013.

Nothing short of a pioneer in the bridal makeup profession in Nigeria, Tara launched the first bridal directory in the year 1999. She also set up phenomenal makeup studios and established the first makeup school in Nigeria. Along with House of Tara, Tara Fela-Durotoye is the creative brain behind the Tara Orekelewa Beauty range, Inspired Perfume, and the H.I.P Beauty range.

In 2007, she was awarded the Africa SMME Award and the Entrepreneur award in South Africa. 2008 saw the 10th Anniversary, ‘Be Inspired’ Fragrance and in 2009 she started a branch network by opening branches of the business in Ikeja, Ibadan and Abuja. In the last 8 years, Tara Fela – Durotoye has launched the H.I.P range, partnered with Maybelline New York. The brand has developed a Multi Brand & Distribution Channel Strategy and organised the 1st ever Makeup in Nigeria Conference (MINC). HOT has launched a studio in Centro Mall, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, expanded to Kenya and features on CNN. House of Tara also expanded to Rwanda, opened a Corporate Headquarters and done its first makeup school training in Kenya. The list of achievements is endless, HOT still grows as the brand opened two branches in Key export markets, expanded to the USA and created a collaborative product (Pigments by Jide of St. Ola).

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The Deal Room

At the Conference, there will be one-on-one meetings between business owners seeking debt and/or equity funding and potential investors seeking to invest in similar businesses.
While we have already secured the participation of two growth fund providers, we are happy to partner with more investors

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Exhibition and Brand Activations

Sponsors and select participants will have an opportunity to promote their goods and services at the event.
There will be exhibition stands in prominent locations within the venue where attendees are able to patronize products and services on display.

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Event Details:
Theme:
Outperform: Strategies for Exponential Growth in Africa
Venue: Landmark Centre, Oniru VI, Lagos
Date: Thursday 31 October 2019
Time: 9:00am – 4pm
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Directors, Investors etc.
Entry Fee: FREE
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For Sponsorship and Enquiries

Emmanuel Adeagbo;
eadeagbo@bpiadvisory.com; 0703 813 8507

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