Meet MARKETING EDGE panelist @ Annual Marketing Stakeholders Summit 2021- Jolomi Awala
Jolomi Awala is currently the Creative Director, Ogilvy Africa, Nigeria. He is an experienced creative leader, highly effective in incorporating creative leadership skills to help achieve business objectives.
Awala has over twelve years’ hands-on experience, using creative storytelling to create deep experiences between brands and consumers, via clutter-breaking, impactful marketing communication solutions that resonates with today’s consumer.
His advertising journey has seen him deploy his craft and leave indelible footprints at creative shops that include Insight Publicis, BBDO, Centrespread Grey, and Noah’s Ark.
He is passionate about implementing creative and effective strategies to help brands progress, Awala has worked across a range of Nigerian and global businesses spanning industries like Non-Alcoholic / Alcoholic Drinks, Banking and Fintech, Telco and Tech, Music and Entertainment. Some of the brands include: Google, Cadbury, Heineken, Airtel, Pepsi, Guinness, Youtube, Visa, KIA Motors, SWIFT Networks, Android, Mirinda, Wema Bank, Indomie Noodles, FCMB, Intercellular Broadband Internet, 2Sure Sanitizer and Lipton Ice Tea and Supa Komando to mention a few. Notable projects include, Heineken’s “There’s More Behind The Star” campaign which featured, for its African market, Nigerian-American singer Jidenna. Google’s Africa-centric campaign “Fuel for your hustle” which ran across key African markets.
Recently, creatively led and directed Product Design and Brand Identity creation, for Seven-Up Bottling Company’s newly introduced brands, 2Sure Hands and Surface Sanitizer and Supa Komando Energy Drink. Awala has a proven track record of collaborating with clients, to increase market share and positively impact commercial reality of his client’s business, whilst strictly adhering to project timelines and budget requirements as well as several local and international awards to boot reinforcing his strategic creative nous.
Awala loves playing the piano and making music in addition to watching documentaries when he’s not hard at work creating magic for clients. He also volunteered in the Arts space on projects that include Lagos Biennial and the Fountain Film Festival as a technical director. “Jolomi is an eternal optimist who believes in creating work that adds value to people’s lives and how they live.”
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