Marketing savvy Yinka Akande formerly a Brand Director with Etisalat Nigeria has been appointed Director -General/Chief Executive Officer of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN).
Akande left the services of Etisalat Nigeria about a year ago, to set up xYz Marketing Consult as founder/CEO before his new appointment which took effect Thursday, Dec. 1st, 2011.
A highly cerebral marketing strategist and educator, he was the first Director (Events, Sponsorship & Promotions) and former Director (Communications) of Globacom, one of the leading players in the highly competitive Nigeria’s telecoms market.
An SMP 18 alumnus of the Lagos Business School, Akande is a 1985 graduate of the then University of Ife (now OAU) who was in September 2007 honoured as an Officer of Great Ife (OGI), a distinguished alumnus award of the University’s National Alumni Association.
He also earned post-graduate degrees from the University of Lagos and the Institute of Marketing (South Africa).
Akande is a Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) and a second generation Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Foundation. He is widely travelled, principled but personable professional who has worked meritoriously over the past 25 years across business functions as diverse as industrial relations, plant production, demand management, and in streams of marketing, sales and brands PR in blue chip companies such as UAC, Unilever, Glaxo-Smithkline and Coca-Cola International.
Happily married with Children to Fola, Akande is the BOT Chairman of Klob Kashoggi and a member of the prestigious Rotary Club of Lagos, Ikoyi Club 1938 and the Institute of Directors.{jcomments on}
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