Meet MARKETING EDGE 2020 Summit & Awards panelist – Oye Akideinde
Nigerian by nationality, African in perspective and Global by experience, Oye Akideinde is a Media, Tech & Entertainment Executive whose 20years+ experience has been primarily in entertainment, consumer goods, eBusiness, financial, media and digital sectors. With demonstrated initiative &innovation, he has been successful in technology, project management, strategy, marketing, product & business development, giving him a vast set of skills.
Awarded ‘The Music Business Executive’ of 2020 by Scream Awards and Marketing Edge’s 2018 ‘Digital Entertainment Innovator’, listed as 2016’s Avance Media’s ‘100 Most Influential Young Nigerians’, MeetsMedia ‘Media Personality of September 2016’ and a nominee in 2010’s Future Awards ‘Professional of the year’, Oye also known as Oye A.K.D, holds a Specialist degree in General Music Studies from the Berklee School of Music, USA, an MSc in Business Information Systems from the University of Hertfordshire, UK & a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He also led Boomplay Music to win the coveted ‘Best African App’ Award at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards in 2017.
Mr. Akideinde is the GM Music Services for the MTN Group and was appointed as the CEO for MusicTime. He is responsible for strategically developing and managing key relationships to fulfill its vision of becoming Africa’s largest sustainable music ecosystem.
A family man, Oye likes to be involved in global workshops to contribute to discussions on various trends in Africa and its impacts and possibilities. He is a collector by heart – from Comic books to vinyl.
Listen to Oye’s favourite quote – My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate. My deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure. It is my light, not my darkness, that most frightens me – Paraphrased from the award-winning novel by Mariam Williamson – A Return to Love (1992: HarperCollins).
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