WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: SIM SHAGAYA – The Father of E-commerce in West Africa

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WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA

 SIM SHAGAYA

SIM SHAGAYA

AGE: 38

STATE OF ORIGIN: PLATEAU

CURRENT POSITION: Founder & CEO at Konga Online Shopping Limited, Founder at DealDey.com

PAST POSITIONS:

Co-Founder & CEO

E-Motion Advertising Ltd

Leading out of home advertising company with assets in the cities of Lagos, Abuja & Port Harcourt.

Africa Representative, Google Inc.

Sherpa to the internet search and contextual advertising giant as it sought to enter Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time.

VP, West Africa, Rand Merchant Bank

Project financing including 1. V-Mobile (Now Airtel) $220m infrastructure finance senior debt facility. RMB underwriting: $40m 2. $600m Conoil Pre-Export Facility for Globacom expansion. RMB underwriting: $25m 3. Financial advisory: LCC Toll Road Nigeria. Lekki Expressway – the first toll road developed under a PPP framework in Nigeria.

Product Manager – Intern, RealNetworks

Feature definition for mobile media player on Symbian platform. Market sizing for pay tv/ streaming media head end servers

CAREER START: 

Product Manager, MicroStrategy

Business intelligence consulting for leading online retailers and other clients.

Expertise:

Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Online Advertising, Product Management, Lead Generation, Online Marketing, Strategy

EDUCATION:

Harvard Business School, MBA General Management

Dartmouth College, MEM, Engineering

The George Washington University, Bsc Electrical Engineering

JARUSHUB ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION 

The Father of e-Commerce in Nigeria, nay West Africa

JARUSHUB REMARKS

Before being successful with the recent enterprises, Simdul had pioneered the online industry in Nigeria with startups like inollywood, gbogbo.com and alarina.com etc. Even though he later threw in the towel on the startups , he now has the expertise to take on any online business model in the country.

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