Entrepreneurship platform, Smartpreneur is ready to uncover all there is in the business of distribution in Nigeria. The Live session is scheduled to hold today, Thursday June 17, 2021, at 5pm WAT.
The Smartpreneur Live session will enable both established and aspiring entrepreneurs to understand the processes and cost of setting up or operating a successful distribution company.
Akinbo Akin-Olugbade, Managing Director of Kawai Technologies Ltd, the largest Bosch and Siemens distribution company in West Africa will be sharing his experience and best strategies to tackle the challenges that people encounter in starting out a technology services and distribution firm.
Today’s Smartpreneur live session, just like every other session, will allow viewers obtain exclusive information that can be implemented either when starting out or managing a business.
An engineering degree holder, Akinbo started his career during his national service in securities regulation at the Office of the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria. He then moved back to the UK to work for Nitro Ventures; a venture capital company, working closely with one of their investments; Nitro Digital for 3 years.
Returning to Nigeria, Akinbo joined Ponglomerape Holdings, Nigeria’s fourth largest fertiliser company, as Director of Operations. During his 5 years at Ponglomerape, Akinbo conceptualised and rolled out its bulk-bagging subsidiary, which became the first indigenous shipside bagging company for bulk shipments in Nigeria.
Today, Akinbo runs Kawai Technologies Ltd with two other business units; Technology Services, and Supply Chain Procurement both of which deal with an array of blue-chip Nigerian firms and international players operating in-country.
Akinbo is also regular participant in the start-up/ventures ecosystem, lending his knowledge and support to companies like Chaka.ng, PaddyCover, Verto, Loop Africa and several other budding firms.
The session promises to be insightful, business owner or not, everyone has life changing lessons to learn from this session. Do not miss out on it.
