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Fola Esan

Fola Esan is an advisor at UTU Technologies. Fola was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the East Africa Region for Schneider Electric, where they were responsible for sales team development, acquisitions, and operational leadership.

Under their leadership, the company successfully integrated a newly acquired company in Nairobi, Kenya with 350 employees and multimillion-dollar annual revenue into the global organization within time, scope, and budget. Fola also led the post-merger integration of systems, processes and workflows, and formulated and implemented a regional business development strategy.

Esan has a proven track record of successful growth planning and operational improvement. Fola established profitable new operations in five countries, Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda, while attaining a significant market share in difficult emerging markets within two years. In one year, they achieved 33% revenue growth and appointed 20 new distribution agents (threefold increase) in the region.

Fola has also introduced focused HR initiatives that

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Folashade Yemi-Esan

Nigerian head of service (born 1964)

Folashade Mejabi Yemi-EsanCFR (néeMejabi; born 13 August 1964), is a Nigerian civil servant and the current head of the civil service of the federation, since 4 March 2020.[1] She acted as head of the civil service from 18 September 2019 till her swearing in on 4 March 2020 following the suspension of Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita.[2]

Early life and education

Yemi-Esan was born in Kaduna State, Nigeria. She is from Ikoyi, Ijumu, Kogi State. She had her primary school education at Bishop Smith School, Ilorin and then went to Federal Government College, Ilorin for her secondary school education. She continued to University of Ibadan, where she graduated in 1987 as the best dental surgery student. She later got a certificate in health planning and management, before obtaining a master's degree in public and international administration.[3]

Career

Yemi-Esan started her career at the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria, before she was promoted to the position of Director. Duri

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AGRA

Fola, a Nigerian national, joined us from The Red Iroko Group, an Africa focused Investment Advisory firm based in Mauritius, where he was the Founder and Managing Partner. An Engineer by training, he has an MBA from the London Business School and further training in Leadership and Management from Harvard University, The Aspen Institute and Tulsa University.

He brings over 25 years of Africa and International experience in various sectors.  He has strong operational, strategic, management, financial and commercial expertise acquired by working with large multinational companies.  He has held several senior executive positions including Chief Executive Officer for East Africa region, Global Chief Operating Officer, Regional Vice President for Africa and the Caribbean, Regional Vice President for Europe and the CIS, Chief Executive Officer for South East Africa and Regional Cluster Manager for South East Asia to name a few.

His experience in over 12 countries in Africa (Algeria, Angola, Cameroun, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia); Asia (Indonesia and

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