Lekan ATILOLA

A conscientious, highly-motivated Business Leader; Business Planner & Strategist; Energy Audit Professional; Pricing & Product Strategy Expert with over 21 years quality experience across Business Planning & Strategy (Telecom & Aviation), Analysis, Business Performance Evaluation, Tariff & Pricing Strategy, Strategic Economic Evaluation, Governance, Risk Management, Auditing, Product Development & Management, Marketing Stratagems Development & Formulation and People Management. Rich Experience in 3 industries: Telecoms, Aviation and Oil & Gas. A strategic thinker, with the ability to form and give balanced views on the business as a whole; articulate the holistic analysis of various business options and demonstrate clarity of strategic thought and decision making; strong co-ordination & administrative skills.

• Developed & Implemented a New Trade Partner Incentive Structure that is deemed a winning model (win-win business situation between Visafone & Trade Partners). It is meant to aid the achievement of Trade Partner Profitability and Visafone business objectives in view of tough business and economic environment., 03/01/12
• Key Team Member, Review of Change Order & Financial Performance of $11.15 Billion Egina Field Project with reported savings of ~ $729 million to the Federation through the Production Sharing Contract(PSC).
• Developed a UNIQUE product in the industry (BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY) which when implemented led to 4% contribution to activation (new customer); About 4% of activated customers who had not done anything within 90 days subscribed; Average Revenue Per User(ARPU) of new customers went up by 168%; Monthly revenue of same customer who subscribed increased by 1.9%. All these happened at the time when the company was experiencing revenue decline., 09/01/11
• Pricing & Tariff Strategy that delivered over 2 million customers in less than 10 months of operations – Unprecedented track record in Nigeria Telecom history!, 01/01/09
• Developed and implemented a tariff strategy that had the potential of generating USD$3.71million additional revenue annually., 01/01/09
• Designed an Executive Business Plan Model for Visafone Communication Strategic Business Operations., 01/01/09
• Developed an Automated Key Business Reports & Commercial Indicators Planning Model for Air Nigeria (Formerly Virgin Nigeria Airways): 2-Member Team., 01/01/07
• Designed an Excel-based Automated Reporting Model for Sales Performance Reporting Nationwide at Visafone Communications Limited., 01/01/07
• Integrity Ambassador Award by Governance Risk & Compliance Division, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)., 01/01/21
• Key Member, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Strategy Development Team in collaboration with Group Managing Director’s (GMD) Office Strategy Implementation Team.
• Team Member, NNPC 2016 Best Audit Report Writing Team., 01/01/17
• Team Member, NNPC 2014 Best Audit Report Writing Team., 05/01/15
• Developed an excellent formatted design for Audit Report that is being adopted in almost all GRC Audit Reports.
• Mentor to Executive/Full-Time MBA Students, Lagos Business School, Pan-African (Now Pan-Antlantic) University, Lagos, Nigeria

• Date of Birth: 04/26/74
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

• Project Management Institute (PMI), 2020
• Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria (FCE), 2018
• Institute of Cost Management of Nigeria (ACM), 2002

• Visafone Communications Founder’s Award for the Most Outstanding Staff in Pricing, 2008
• Faculty Prize for the best graduating student in the Faculty of Social Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2001
• Best Overall Student in National Diploma Mathematics & Statistics of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, 1994