As
preparations for the Third Quarterly Forum of the Nigeria Information
Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) reach fever pitch, organisers of the
event have named Mr. Olatunde Ogungbade, Managing Director/Chief Executive
Officer of Global Accelerex Limited as the Keynote speaker.
The
NITRA 3rd Quarterly Forum holds on Friday, October 13 at the R-Café
Event Centre (opposite Renaissance Hotel), on Isaac John Street, GRA, Ikeja,
Lagos.
Mr.
Ogungbade as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Global Accelerex Limited
brings his diverse competencies as a business executive, management consultant,
entrepreneur, and technology leader to guide the corporate mission of the
payment solutions company.
He
obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Ife (now
Obafemi Awolowo University) and a Master’s Degree in Real Time Systems from
London Southbank University, UK. He is a certified Project Management
Professional and a professional member of the Global Project Management
Institute (Lagos Nigeria Chapter).
He
is also a certified SAP Technical Consultant with many other notable and
relevant industry business leadership and information technology
qualifications. He has an Executive MBA Degree from Robert H. Smith School of
Business, University of Maryland.
His
over two decades of international business management experience and
information technology expertise covers technology strategic planning and
investment, enterprise system integration, custom software development,
technology operations and infrastructure management, technology commercialisation,
innovative (R&D) and technology project management.
Tunde
was the Enterprise Architect and IT Division Manager at Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission where he was responsible for driving the enterprise
architecture initiatives and evolution through business IT capital investment
alignment and strategic planning across line and staff functions in the $1.3
budget organization.
Prior
to the Commission, he spent over 10 years of management consulting at various
Big-5 global consulting companies (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cap Gemini Ernst
& Young, Sogeti Group) working with industries lines in Government, Retail,
Banking & Financial Services, Health Care, Pharmaceutical and Telcos.
His
career began as an entrepreneur, running his IT Consultancy Services firm
working on strategic business projects for clients such as New Digital Systems,
M. W. Kellogg on the Norsk Hyrdo and the NLNG Project and the BBC.
The
Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA), an umbrella body
for journalists reporting information and communications technology in Nigeria
is organising the third edition of its quarterly forum entitled “Digital
Payment: Prospects and Challenges of a Financially Inclusive Nigeria.”
The
event which holds this Friday at the R-Café Event Centre on Isaac John Street,
GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, will not only highlight the challenges and opportunities in
the FinTech space in Nigeria but will provide knowledge and networking platform
that will bring the Nigeria Fintech industry at par with its counterparts
across the globe.
The
event also offers the Banking, ICT and FinTech industries an excellent
opportunity to showcase some of their achievements before the largest gathering
of the sectors players under one roof as well as share their contributions to
Digital Payments in addition to efforts towards actualizing financial inclusion
in the country.
