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Abiola Jewoola

Abiola Jewoola

Lagos

Summary

Commercial and business growth executive with deep experience leading revenue growth, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, and market expansion across technology, digital transformation, logistics, managed services, cloud, cybersecurity, and B2B services in Africa.

Track record of building and leading commercial teams, opening new markets, winning complex enterprise deals, shaping go to market strategy, and engaging C level stakeholders across banking, fintech, public sector, energy, and large corporate accounts.

Strong strength in translating strategy into measurable commercial outcomes, improving execution discipline, building scalable pipelines, and driving cross functional alignment to accelerate revenue growth.

Known for operating at executive level with Boards, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, and procurement leaders, while also building the systems, commercial structure, and market motions needed to scale revenue

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

VICE PRESIDENT, COMMERCIAL

Haul 247 Innovative Technologies
Lagos
2026.03 - Current
  • Lead the company’s commercial strategy, revenue growth agenda, enterprise business development, and strategic partnership development.
  • Drive go to market strategy focused on scaling enterprise logistics, supply chain, and platform led revenue opportunities in Nigeria and across Africa.
  • Build the commercial operating model, including pipeline structure, account prioritisation, sales process discipline, performance management, and market coverage.
  • Position the business for larger enterprise contracts by strengthening commercial narrative, value proposition, cross functional execution, and executive engagement.
  • Support strategic discussions on how the business can evolve from transaction focused operations into a scalable enterprise platform with recurring and sticky revenue streams.

Selected Impact

  • Developed growth strategy focused on enterprise contract acquisition, corridor based demand concentration, and multi service revenue expansion.
  • Influenced market position by developing impactful branding strategies.
  • Built a structured 60 day commercial action plan to establish pipeline visibility, team design priorities, early revenue momentum, and executive dashboards.

ACTING CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER / VP, SALES

Heirs Technologies Limited
Lagos
2024.06 - 2026.02
  • Led the commercial and sales agenda for a technology business selling enterprise solutions across banking, financial services, public sector, oil and gas, and large corporates.
  • Held responsibility for multi billion naira revenue targets and managed enterprise sales strategy, strategic accounts, market penetration, and commercial execution.
  • Directed complex sales cycles involving technology infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, software, managed services, and transformation programs.
  • Worked closely with the Managing Director, CFO, CTO, partnerships teams, and delivery leaders to improve revenue predictability, pricing discipline, and execution effectiveness.
  • Drove executive engagement with major clients, especially in banking, including account growth strategy, transformation discussions, RFP positioning, and multi country opportunity development.
  • Led planning around recurring revenue service models, annuity driven offerings, pricing governance, and strategic partner alignment.

Selected Achievements

  • Managed sales organisation performance against targets running into billions of naira.
  • Strengthened executive level relationships across flagship banking and enterprise accounts, helping position the company as a strategic technology partner rather than a transactional vendor.
  • Led growth conversations across Nigeria and broader African markets, including commercial planning around Ghana and Kenya market entry.
  • Helped shape and commercialise managed services, support offerings, enterprise infrastructure deals, software renewals, and transformation opportunities across multiple sectors.
  • Improved commercial discipline around quoting, pricing thresholds, margin protection, payment terms, and pipeline reporting.
  • Drove higher value engagement with OEMs and strategic partners across Microsoft, Dell, Huawei, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, Commvault, Zscaler, and related ecosystems.

Sales Director Enterprise Business

Rioss Technology Limited
2019.05 - 2024.12
  • Led enterprise business growth across strategic accounts, new market development, and complex solution sales within the technology sector.
  • Drove revenue generation across enterprise customers by positioning infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and managed service solutions to senior decision makers.
  • Built and managed high value client relationships across banking, large corporates, and other enterprise segments, with focus on long cycle, consultative sales and multi stakeholder deal management.
  • Worked across commercial strategy, pipeline development, executive engagement, proposal leadership, negotiation, and account expansion to improve revenue quality and win rate.
  • Collaborated with OEMs, partners, technical teams, and internal stakeholders to shape solution fit, strengthen commercial positioning, and deliver larger enterprise opportunities.

Selected Achievements

  • Strengthened enterprise market penetration through structured account development and stronger executive level client engagement.
  • Helped position the business for larger and more strategic deals by aligning solution selling with customer business priorities and commercial outcomes.
  • Contributed to revenue growth by building pipeline discipline, improving opportunity conversion, and expanding relationships across key enterprise accounts.
  • Built deeper credibility in enterprise technology selling, laying the foundation for broader executive commercial leadership roles.

Chief Technology officer

Rioss Technology Limited
2015.02 - 2019.04
  • Provided executive leadership across technology strategy, enterprise architecture, solution development, infrastructure direction, and business aligned technology execution.
  • Worked closely with executive leadership to align technology investment with revenue growth, operational efficiency, customer value, and long term business objectives.
  • Led cross functional teams across engineering, infrastructure, service delivery, and solution implementation, ensuring technology decisions supported commercial priorities and business scale.
  • Drove technology transformation initiatives across core platforms, enterprise systems, digital capabilities, and customer facing solutions.
  • Managed vendor and partner relationships, technology roadmaps, solution standards, and delivery governance to improve resilience, scalability, and execution quality.
  • Supported business development and strategic sales efforts by helping translate complex technology capabilities into customer value, commercial differentiation, and executive level confidence.

CommVault Professional Service Consultant (EMEA)

Halian UAE
2014.01 - 2015.01
  • Delivered enterprise data protection and disaster recovery architecture for regulated institutions.
    • Conducted infrastructure health assessments and implemented backup governance frameworks.
    • Designed replication and archiving systems to strengthen operational resilience.

Solution Architect (EMEA)

Halian UAE
2014.01 - 2015.01
  • Worked closely with clients to analyzed IT system requirements, client's information technology needs and their resources in order to plan IT projects and fulfill clients expectations.
  • Developed IT system specifications after evaluating customer's nature of work and business volume.
  • Designing and Implement Network, Data Backup and Recovery and Storage Solutions for Enterprise Clients across Africa and Middle East.
  • Configuring Dell monitoring solutions for inventory and network discovery.
  • Designing and Installing Dell Fibre Channel and Iscsi based Storage solutions e.g Compellent, Equallogic and powervault storages.
  • Installing Commvault, Symantec backup on DL2200 and agents for backup on networks.
  • Preparing Presentation, Proposal and other related documents.
  • Liaising with implementation Engineers to ensure compliance to standard.
  • Oversee Implementation and Integration of Network Designs.
  • Designing, Implementing and Selling enterprise Dell solutions for datacenters for banks, SMB, Oil and Gas Industries.
  • Solved clients IT issues - Determined changes, recommended quality software, projects modifications of software, hardware and networking.
  • Design and Implementing cross platform virtualization solutions Hype-v ,VMware for clients.
  • Monitored the execution of strategies, kept up to date with the new technology and conducted researches on latest Information technology market trends.

Network Engineer

Telnet Nigeria Limited
2008.01 - 2011.01
  • Maintaining computer networks including mainframes, VPNs, routers and other physical hardware.
  • Installing and configuring network equipment.
  • Creating firewalls and updating virus protection software and data security systems to keep data and communications protected.
  • Monitoring computer systems to improve network performance for all systems.
  • Troubleshooting, resolving, and communicating networking issues to other employees and management.
  • Implementing disaster recovery procedures.
  • Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systems.

Education

Higher National Diploma - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

YABA College of Technology
Lagos

Skills

  • Commercial Strategy and Revenue Growth
  • Enterprise Sales Leadership
  • Pan African Market Expansion
  • Strategic Partnerships and Alliances
  • Key Account Management
  • Go to Market Strategy
  • P and L Ownership
  • Business Development and Pipeline Management
  • Contract Negotiation and Complex Deal Structuring
  • Managed Services and Recurring Revenue Models
  • Banking, Financial Services, Public Sector, Energy, and Enterprise Markets
  • Executive Stakeholder Engagement
  • Sales Operations and Performance Management
  • Cross Functional Leadership

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Led commercial growth across enterprise technology, digital transformation, and B2B service environments with responsibility for multi billion naira targets.
  • Drove strategic account development and executive engagement across major banking and enterprise institutions in Nigeria and broader African markets.
  • Built and managed commercial strategies across technology solutions including cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software, managed services, and transformation programs.
  • Shaped market expansion initiatives across West and East Africa, including growth strategies involving Ghana and Kenya.
  • Managed high value client and partner relationships across OEM, software, infrastructure, and services ecosystems.
  • Known for aligning commercial strategy with financial outcomes, improving pipeline discipline, margin protection, deal governance, and execution rhythm.

Certification

  • Cisco Certified Interwork Expert (Lab Attempt)
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional
  • Certified Sonicwall Administrator
  • Commvault Certified Specialist
  • Commvault Certified Administrator
  • Aws Solution Architect Training
  • DellEMC Certified Storage Administrator

Timeline

VICE PRESIDENT, COMMERCIAL

Haul 247 Innovative Technologies
2026.03 - Current

ACTING CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER / VP, SALES

Heirs Technologies Limited
2024.06 - 2026.02

Sales Director Enterprise Business

Rioss Technology Limited
2019.05 - 2024.12

Chief Technology officer

Rioss Technology Limited
2015.02 - 2019.04

CommVault Professional Service Consultant (EMEA)

Halian UAE
2014.01 - 2015.01

Solution Architect (EMEA)

Halian UAE
2014.01 - 2015.01

Network Engineer

Telnet Nigeria Limited
2008.01 - 2011.01

Higher National Diploma - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

YABA College of Technology
Abiola Jewoola