By Sunday Okobi:
Lagos Business School alumni, Glory Eyinnaya (EMBA 21) and Aidenehi Okosun (MBA 14), have emerged finalists for the AMBA Student of the Year and the Entrepreneurial Venture of the year respectively, at the 2018 AMBA Awards held in London, United Kingdom.
The AMBA Student of the Year award sponsored by the
Wall Street Journal is for the high performing MBA who demonstrates outstanding
skills and motivation towards becoming future business leaders while the MBA
Entrepreneurial Venture Award celebrates the achievements of successful alumni
who is a trailblazer in world-class business strategy.
These awards also showcase the Business Schools
that are nurturing the spirit of enterprise and ambition.
The Management Consultant, Entrepreneur and a
Prosci-certified Change Manager, Glory Enyinnaya, has led the implementation of
change on several technology implementation projects across Africa, including
the West African team of the world largest SAP deployment. She studied
Accounting at the University of Nigeria Nsukka and concluded an Executive MBA
from Lagos Business School at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos in 2017.
Currently, she is the founder and Lead Consultant
of Kleos Africa, an online consulting platform, which aims to enable
value-adding interactions between African SMEs and experienced MBAs and
professionals with the aim of increasing the rates of successful
entrepreneurship in Africa.
She is also
the Programme Manager for the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative
(AWEC), an initiative of the New York-based Centre for Global Enterprise, which
aims to empower 3,000 African women entrepreneurs by 2021. She is the President
of the Lagos Business School chapter of the Beta Gamma Sigma, an international
association for high-performing business-school graduates.
Aidenehi Okosun possesses about seven years of
post-graduate experience in various industries including the Energy,
Technology, Food and Beverage industries where he has held several leadership
roles. He graduated from Management Information System at the Covenant
University, and is a seasoned Business Developer with skills in Corporate
Finance, Business Strategy, Financial Structuring and Modelling, Valuation and Deal
Structuring, Process Improvement, Project Management and Go-to-market Strategy Design.
He presently sits on the board of several start-ups and provides mentorship to
a lot of budding entrepreneurs. He has a k penchant for ‘Social
Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Impact Investing’ particularly on business models that
improve the quality of life in emerging markets especially in sub-Saharan
Africa. He also has volunteer experience including the Tony Elumelu Foundation
(TEEP), the Barcelona Technology Transfer Group, and the Diamond Bank
Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Eyinnaya and Okosun were both delighted to have
gotten to the final stages of the competition and are proud to be flying the
flag of their Alma Mata. According to Okosun, “Lagos Business School is one of
only two schools which had nominees in major award categories, and this is
worthy of note because LBS only recently became an AMBA accredited institution,
the only school in West Africa with such coveted accreditation.”
Eyinnanya also stated that “I am very proud to have
been nominated by LBS and to have reached the final stage of a competition that
aims at recognising the highest performing MBAs who have distinguished
themselves in leadership, social impact and intellectual achievement.”
According to the Dean of Lagos Business School, Dr.
Enase Okonedo, “I am sure that they will be inspirations to many, including the
current MBA students; not only to compete in competitions but to get involved
in things that are impactful as well as contribute to social and economic development.
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