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Chinedu Onuegbu

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Chinedu is a market entry and Business Development expert with international experience. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he specialized in Marketing and Innovation.

Chinedu is passionate about the African markets and has supported several businesses with their expansion strategy into African markets. In the recent past, Chinedu consulted for BAS Trucks BV (The Netherlands) on their go-to-market strategies into the used trucks and heavy machinery segments in two key African markets—Nigeria and Ghana. He also facilitated an in-country market entry research project for Naijalink Limited on Industrial machine tools.
Chinedu joins Native Insight to apply his skills and experience in research, strategy, business model generation, and digital execution in solving business problems.

Outside of work, Chinedu takes interest in reading books on philosophy and business strategy. He also volunteers at a cultural centre in Lagos.

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Amam Okafor

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Amam holds a master’s degree in Economics and Strategy from the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany. He consulted for africon GmbH, supporting international companies with their go-to-market strategies into African markets. He worked within the Competency centre, Energy and Environment of the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce (AHK) in Nigeria. He has had other consultancy stints with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Nigeria as a member of the working group on Housing, Slums, and Informal Settlement; and the Lagos Business School where he researched mostly on Non-profit management and the grand challenges. He was a regular contributor to Businessday opinion editorials where he wrote on socio-economic topics. He has built relationships working with reputable professionals across Nigeria and beyond.

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Amam brings his diversity to lead strategy and engagement in Native Insight all the while standing as a co-chair, Economics & Societies. Amam is a strategist whose interests span the science of society, markets, business, sustainability, and development policies around Africa. He cares about volunteering; loves cooking and good music.

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Ikechukwu Okafor

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”13362″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Ikechukwu has over 10 years of banking experience in branch operations and international money transfers. Until recently, he worked with First Bank of Nigeria Limited as Head Branch Services where he led his teams to grow revenues while ensuring that clients and prospects received excellent experience of the products and services channels.

He grew through the ranks, succeeding in various tasks such as Customer Services, Accounts Management, International Money Transfer (Western Union, MoneyGram, World Remit and RIA) Services, ATM Management, Cash Operations, and Customer Relationship Management, all the while contributing to the digital transition of the Bank. He honed his skills in Management, Banking, Strategic Planning, and Business Relationship Management, through work experience and training.

As a voracious learner, Ik had taken courses and participated in projects on Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Business Operations, Supply Chain Principles, Natural Gas Value Chain, and Data Analytics. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and a Graduate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). He is currently enrolled in an advanced programme on International Energy Economics & Business Administration at the University of Leipzig, Saxony Germany. His research focus is on entrepreneurial opportunities in the energy transition.

He is an ethical professional with eyes for opportunities in Business Process Improvement, Business Operations Management, and Energy Business.

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Gideon Ndubuisi, Ph.D

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Gideon is a Project Manager and Researcher at the German Development Institute (d.i.e) in Germany. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics at Maastricht University (Netherlands).

Gideon has over six years of teaching, research, and consulting experience in Economics. He garnered this experience from working for different reputable local and international organizations such as the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW, Germany), Institute for World Economy (IfW, Germany), European Center for Economic Research (ZEW, Germany), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO, Austria), African Development Bank (AfDB, Cote d’Ivoire), United Nation University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER, Finland), European Commission (EU-JRC, Belgium), UNU–MERIT/Maastricht University (Netherlands), and NODAC Consulting (Nigeria).

Gideon’s primary research interests are international trade, GVC, formal and informal institutions, firm behavior and performance, and structural change. However, he also researches broadly on development economics-related issues such as international migration, remittance, and entrepreneurship.

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Uju Ikedionu-Obichukwu

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Uju works with Allianz Insurance Nigeria as a Reconciliation Officer. Before joining Allianz, Uju worked as a research and data analyst at BusinessDay Research and Intelligence Unit (BRIU), a subsidiary of BusinessDay Media Ltd. In that capacity, she contributed extensive research on corporate governance, sustainability, and aviation industry report. With a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Uju has received training on basic financial modeling and forecasting, Economic modeling, valuation, and tools in accounting and macro-economic analysis.

Her interests span Financial analyses, investment banking, impact investing, corporate sustainability, and corporate governance.

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