TPT International Appoints Muyiwa Akintunde COO
Leading public relations firm, TPT International Limited, has appointed veteran reputation manger and vice president of the Public Relations Consultants of Nigeria (PRCAN), Muyiwa Akintunde, as its Chief Operating Officer (COO).
This development, according to Adetokunbo Modupe, TPT’s Chairman and Lead Strategist, is to further strengthen the capacity of the company in its quest to offer creative solutions to clients’ briefs and sustain innovation and professionalism in its operations.
Prior to Akintunde’s appointment at TPT, he was the Lead Consultant at Leap Communications, with over 25 years of cumulative experience in public relations and journalism.
He was Executive Director at MarketingMix, a reputable brand communications consultancy acknowledged as the Best PR Agency of the Year 2010 by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Lagos State chapter.
He transited from journalism to PR when he joined the then Corporate and Financials (now C&F Porter Novelli) in April 2004 as Group Head Media.
His skills in reputation management, issues management and stakeholder relations, media and influencer relations and public affairs have been deployed to several international brands including MTN, Emirates, Procter & Gamble, Tinapa Business Resort, Unilever, UAC and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), among others.
Akintunde was editor at several publications including UK-based Africa Today, Newswatch, Theweek, The Post Express and reporter with The Guardian and TimesWeek, a Daily Times publication.
He has been in the executive committee of PRCAN since 2010 serving in various capacities and leads the team that runs the PRCAN Masterclass series, the association’s capacity development initiative.
TPT International Limited is a full-service public relations firm maintaining practice areas in crisis management, corporate communications, strategic counselling, media relations, information communications technology and social media.
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