Meet MARKETING EDGE Guest Speaker @ Stakeholders’ Summit 2022 – Okeke
Emeka Chris Okeke is the Founder, Managing Partner and Group Chief Executive Officer of MediaFuse Dentsu International (Nigeria) and Director of Dentsu Ghana.
Emeka is responsible for the development of Dentsu’s global and local service brands in Nigeria with 30 years’ experience spanning across the Print Media, full service creative and media agencies notably in Nigeria and Ghana.
He launched Ghana’s first Media Independent Agency Network – Premier Media Company Ghana in 1999 (now Vizeum Ghana, a division of Dentsu Ghana) to pioneer the development of professional media planning services and communications practice in that part of Africa.
Emeka has successfully led MediaFuse Dentsu International Network of agencies in Nigeria into winning numerous awards and recognitions since inception cutting across different service categories and has at the same time earned notable recognitions and professional awards for himself from different organizations in and outside Nigeria.
Some of the awards include Media Entrepreneur of the year (2014), Outstanding Leadership in Advertising (2017), Outstanding Media Advertising Leadership Awards (2018), Advertising Professional of the year (2018), Life-Time Award Winner (2021), Innovative Marketing Communications Network of the year (2021), “Best Agency in Gender Inclusion” (WIMCA 2021), and recently, an inductee, Media Pacesetter Hall of Fame (2022).
A Fellow of National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, Fellow of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, a member of International Advertising Association, and other industry professional bodies. Emeka plays leadership roles in Media Independent Practitioners Association of Nigeria, where he is an ex-officio member of the body’s executive committee.
Emeka’s professional work life has taken him to many global communication networks and afforded him the opportunity to be in a position to support clients from different product and service categories spanning across conventional media communications, digital marketing, creative, content as well as integrated communications strategy in today’s dynamic marketing communications landscape and evolving global digital economy.
Notably, he is an Alumnus of University of Nigeria Nsukka, Lagos Business School and IESE University, Barcelona, Spain, to mention a few tertiary institutions that contributed to shaping his career in marketing communications.
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