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Akinwande Mark-ObabaAM

Akinwande Mark-Obaba

Programme Management

€1,000/day
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Akinwande

Akinwande is a Tech enthusiast, coach & senior leader with over 20 years delivery experience in IT portfolio & programme management, change & communications management, product-led agile transformation, risk management, customer engagement & management, governance & reporting and operations management across multiple sectors.

He currently has oversight for complex Programmes, Strategy, Governance, Risk & Control for the leading Tower company in Africa and is a trusted advisor to the Business in the area of Technology, People and Process. For about eight (8) years leading to his current role, he functioned in transformation roles that delivered change at enterprise levels in the financial services sector. In this period, he led a team of over 8 programme & project managers in digital transformation programmes for one of the leading Banks in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2016 and 2017, he was also the Change Management Consultant on the EPMO set up for one of the largest Central Banks in the EMEA region.

Earlier in his career, he worked with one of the leading global consulting firms - PwC as an Experienced Operations & Strategy Consultant having previously spent about seven (7) years with two of Africa’s telecommunication companies, leading Infrastructure & Technology Projects.

He is the Co-founder of a PMO & Digital Transformation Consultancy called Insiqua Solutions. He is also a PM Consultant with Aldarton Limited, UK. He is on the faculty of the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University, Nigeria where he teaches on Project Management and provides business mentorship to SMEs.

He has a first degree in Industrial & Production Engineering and has an Executive MBA degree from the Lagos Business School, with a mandatory executive education module at IESE Business School.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • IHS TOWERS
    Director, Business Decision Support
    October 2020 - Today (5 years and 8 months)
    Leading a team of Senior Managers, Managers within the business to drive the following:
    - Transformation
    - Process Management & Automation
    - Business Advisory Services
    - Strategy
    - Change Management
    - Risk & Control
    - Technical Audit
  • IHS TOWERS
    Programme & Change Lead
    September 2021 - April 2023 (1 year and 7 months)

    - Programme Director & Change Lead on enterprise initiatives which include process consolidation, development of global process templates, process automation and system deployment
    - Led a team of consultants to perform a diagnostic exercise on the organisation's health, management practices, culture, and organisational architecture. (2021/22).
    - leading complex enterprise programmes (people, process and technology) worth millions of pounds
  • IHS TOWERS
    Associate Director, Business Support
    October 2017 - September 2020 (2 years and 11 months)
    In this role, I provided oversight to different teams delivering results in the following areas: Strategic planning & budgeting, risk, control, compliance, audit, process development, review and improvement, strategic and transformational projects, business performance management & reporting. Some of my leadership highlights are:
    • Led the Tech Transformation Programme which resulted in development of over 100 processes, Job Descriptions, Performance evaluation framework and system requirements.
    • In June 2019 successfully instituted a Change Management team to drive culture and business change.
    • Improved TAT on key departmental processes by approximately 20% in the 1st year of improvement (2018). Improved automation on BSS & OSS platforms

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Education

  • Pan African EMBA International Module, Business Administration and Management, General
    IESE Business School
    Pan African EMBA International Module, Business Administration and Management, General
  • Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
    Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

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