Lampe Omoyele

Lampe Omoyele, director, with a 31-year track record in managing brands and businesses across diverse industries and markets with leading multinational companies and indigenous companies with global aspirations. He is currently Managing Director/CEO, Nitro 121, one of West Africa’s leading marketing communication companies, and Founding Partner, The Lucent Consulting Company, a business strategy and human capital development consultancy. He has previously been Group Product Manager and Field Sales Manager at Cadbury Nigeria; Marketing Director, Cadbury East and Central Africa; Marketing Director, Airtel Nigeria; Marketing Director, Nutricima; Africa Marketing Director, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare; and Managing Director, Nielsen West Africa. Mr. Omoyele holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Biochemistry and is an Alumnus of the Lagos Business School (SMP 14). He is a Fellow, National Institute of Marketing in Nigeria (NIMN); Trustee of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN); Associate member, Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON); Honorary Fellow, Business Process Management Institute; member of the Advisory Council for Advertising Week Africa; and council member of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), a leading global expert network that provides independent consulting services to business professionals worldwide. He is a recipient of several awards including the Marketing Society of Kenya’s Warrior Award for significant contribution to the development of marketing in Kenya in 2008; Chartered Marketer (UK) status in 2009; NIMN’s Achievers award (2011); Marketing World Magazine’s ‘Personality of the Year’ award (2014); Award for ‘50 most influential marketing communication practitioners in Nigeria’ by Brand Campaign magazine (2018); ‘100 most influential global marketing leaders’ by the World Marketing Congress (2018); and Marketing Edge magazine ‘Leadership award in Marketing’ (2021). Mr. Omoyele serves on the board of several companies and not-for-profit organizations and is an adjunct faculty member of the Orange Academy and Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria where he teaches marketing strategy. He is also a council member of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), a leading global expert network that provides independent consulting services to business professionals worldwide.