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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 / 06:00 PM / WebTV /
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WebTV's Market Review segment dedicated to #Coronanomics will be featuring a robust conversation on 'COVID 19 and The Implications for the Nigerian Business Environment'.
Guest: Tunji Olugbodi
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020
Time: 10.00am
Platform: Livestream
on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook
and Instagram
Topic: COVID 19 and The Implications for the Nigerian Business
Environment
Highlights: Available
later in the day with link to full video.
Host: Otto AbasiEkong, Editor, WebTV
Co-Host: Boason Omofaye, Guest Analyst and CEO
Frontier Africa Reports
Key Questions for Discussion
Guest Profile:
DR. TUNJI OLUGBODI is the Executive Vice
Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Verdant Zeal Group; a
multi-disciplinary marketing and communications outfit with two international
branches in key locations across the West Coast of Africa.
For over one decade, Dr. Olugbodi has led Verdant Zeal on a
progressive trajectory, morphing from a multi-disciplinary organization into a
multi-contextual group with specialized brand marketing competence in Media
Strategy, Planning and Buying; Digital & Interactive Media, Public
Relations & Custom Publishing, Activation & Experiential Marketing,
Specialist Communication, Exhibition and Intellectual Interventions.
He is a prolific and eloquent speaker, a professional par
excellence who has graced several stages speaking on customer service,
marketing, leadership, strategic networking, public relations, risk and crisis
management amongst others.
Personable, confident and enthusiastic, Tunji has handled and
coordinated several high-profile campaigns and effectively managed account
teams, supervised setting up and running of specialist operations in Event
Management, Digital & Interactive Marketing, Experiential Activation,
Direct Marketing, Public Relations and Media planning and buying.
Dr. Olugbodi is the convener of The Innovention Series, an annual
Thought Leadership Series that hosts creative and conceptual thinkers to a
roundtable discussion on how to apply the concept of innovation to development.
The platform has featured many distinguished intellectuals, political leaders
and captains of Industry. The current President of Ghana Nana Akuffo Addo was
once a distinguished speaker.
He was recently conferred with the ADVERTISING PERSONALITY OF THE
DECADE AWARD by the prestigious Marketing Edge Magazine.
A veteran in the industry, his illustrious career spanning over
three decades in journalism, advertising and enterprise development has seen
him pass through the walls of The Guardian Newspapers, SAAL Advertising,
Promoserve-Grey and Prima Garnet Africa before setting up Verdant Zeal in 2007.
As a result of his multifarious knowledge and ability to interact at all
levels, Olugbodi also chairs the board of several other organisations including
BT Bytol Group (a cluster of business interests in Trave, Tourism,
Confectionery and HR Advisory), Background Check International (B.C.I), Team
Building international and Epicentre Events.
His continuous zeal for personal development, evident right from
his undergraduate days at Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo
University, O.O.U) where he finished top of his class with a Bachelor's degree
in English Language, has seen him participate in several local and
international training courses, conferences and workshops. He has also
represented Nigeria at the World Economic Forum and presented papers at
numerous international events like Cambridge Africa Business Network (CABN), at
the University of Cambridge, UK.
Dr. Olugbodi was pioneer chairman of Nigeria's foremost
advertising awards, Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival (LAIF), was recently
awarded the LAIF LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
He is a fellow of both the Nigerian Institute of Marketing (NIMN) and
the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON). He is also a member
of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), London and Institute of
Directors (IoD Nigeria). He has received numerous awards and recognitions for
his works; this includes the Living Legends Industry Award (by Red Media
Africa) and the Brand Icon Award (by Brand Age Magazine). He was also conferred
with a doctorate in Business Economics from Universitẽ Bilingue Libre du Togo (Liberal Bilingual University of Togo).
Despite Tunji's extremely engaging secular obligations he has also
been quite active in attending to matters of the Kingdom, serving the Lord in
varying capacities. Between 2006 and 2015, he was the Chairman, Board of
Governors, Baptist College of Theology, Lagos.
He was also the Chairman, Advisory Board, Spiritual Diet daily
devotional; Coordinator, Family Life Ministry, Triumphant Baptist Church, Lagos
and a Deacon and church council member at Triumphant Baptist Church, Lagos.
He currently serves as the chairman of the board of Baptist Press
in Ibadan.
He places family very highly in the hierarchy of things. Married
to Olabiyi Atinuke his lovely wife of almost three decades, Dr. Olugbodi is a
family man to the core and he believes that the fastest and surest way to build
a strong nation is to foster strong family constituents.
He is constantly engaged in progressive initiatives and causes.
His passion is in travelling, photography and meeting people.
You can follow him on LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter and Instagram. He can be contacted via email at
Tolugbodi@verdantzeal.com
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