Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu, is the founding Managing Director/CEO of multiple-award winning technology solutions provider, InfoGraphics Nigeria, has almost 30 years of an eclectic career spanning marketing communications, digital design, strategy, change/transformation and software development in private and public sectors. In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, also worked in Microsoft Corporation as General Manager (Anglophone West Africa) overseeing 7 country portfolios as a member of the Microsoft EMEA executive management team. He left Microsoft in 2007 to pursue his vision of a borderless Africa as Managing Partner of the technology strategy consulting and project management firm, GrandCentral, currently managing a project portfolio that includes critical national information technology infrastructure in Government, Healthcare, Education, Oil & Gas, and Media/Entertainment and Financial Services.

InfoGraphics’s work under Chinenye’s watch has seen him leading strategy, solutions architecting and delivery in Financial Services, Manufacturing, General Services, Retail and Telecommunications in over 40 enterprise software integration projects. With a background of multi-country responsibilities in Africa mainly focused on national technology strategy development and market growth, he has been instrumental in architecting entrepreneurial ecosystems and early stage involvement in over 13 startups. His public sector experience is derived from service in the area of government’s reforms across its ministries, parastatals and agencies engaged in Digital Transformation projects as well as assisted in the development of corporate IT Strategic Plans. He is a pioneer certified Foundation Rainforest Innovation Architect and Member, Board of Trustees, Global Rainforest Makers Network. Chinenye is a serial entrepreneur, Chairman of eShekels Nigeria, an ICT research and market intelligence company and is on the Board of several other start-ups and organisations including BanyanTree Capital Partners Limited and others.
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