Meet MARKETING EDGE 2020 Summit & Awards panelist – Meka Olowola
Meka Olowola is one of the leading communications specialists in Africa with over 23 years of cross-functional work experience cutting across Advertising, Banking, Public Relations, and Oil and Gas. He is currently the Founder and Managing Partner of Zenera Consulting, a branding and advertising firm and the Executive Chairman of Buzz Digital, a social media and digital marketing company.
Under his leadership, Zenera Consulting won the award of ‘Most Inspiring Agency for 2017’at the Marketing World Awards (MWA), Accra Ghana, as well as the ‘Outstanding Brand Management Company of the Year Award’ at the2019 National Marketing, Branding and Advertising Awards in Lagos, Nigeria, whilst Meka received the ‘Innovative Leadership in PR and Image Management Award’.
He is an alumnus of the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University (physiology), Zaria, Kaduna State; Harvard Business School (Sustainable Business Strategy) and Colorado State University (Change Management).
Meka was a member of the Nigerian Energy Trade Mission to Canada in 2011. In 2012, he was appointed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a member of the special committee on Nigeria’s hosting of the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2014.Meka is passionate about sustainability and devotes his time to organisations, platforms and causes that promote the concept in Africa. He is a Board Member of CSR-in-Action, a non-profit for the promotion and unification of corporate and collective social responsibility in Africa. He also serves as Chairman of Project Light International, a global initiative dedicated to helping the financially challenged market women; and Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Window of Intervention Educational Foundation (WOIEF), an NGO dedicated to helping the academic pursuit of brilliant financially-challenged children.
Meka also sits on the boards of Mission Enablers Africa, an agency dedicated to advancing the kingdom of God on earth by funding missions; and Asido Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation committed to optimal mental health in Africa.
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