Olakunle is a seasoned customer centric entrepreneur with a solid background in business management, process optimization and revenue generation Identification. Hardworking, dedicated and resourceful leader with over ten years entrepreneurial experience. Olakunle is ready to leverage experience and drive to pursue new professional challenges.
Hi, I’m
Olakunle Basorun
Associate Product Manager
Lagos
Summary
Overview
11
years of professional experience
11
years of post-secondary education
5
Certifications
Work History
Hapoti Furniture LimitedLagos
Entrepreneur in Residence
02.2016 - Current
Job overview
- Sourced initial funding of 500,000 Naira to get business up and running while planning initial structure and making strategic first hires.
- Worked on business plan, mission statement, and vision along side my team.
- Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time from one month for standard settees to 2 weeks while in some rear cases 3 days.
- Negotiated supplier contracts to secure competitive pricing for materials and services.
- Identified target customer personas through in-depth research and implemented tactical marketing strategies to reach them.
Tripican LimitedLagos
Entrepreneur in House
03.2015 - 12.2015
Job overview
- Devised processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
- Determined areas in need of improvement and devised targeted corrective actions for each concern to maintain optimal business operations.
- Mapped income generating strategies to grow revenue.
- Built business to 2600 customers by implementing effective marketing and customer engagement plans.
- Generated additional revenue streams through constructive partner and client relationships.
- Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization.
EventvisaLagos
Co-Founder
01.2013 - 02.2015
Job overview
- Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
- Networked with other businesses and customers to increase sales opportunities and contacts.
- Developed marketing materials and campaigns to boost brand awareness and customer engagement.
- Recruited, interviewed and hired new staff members and developed training materials for employees.
- Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to help live/audience based tv shows attract better studio audiences
- Significantly helped tv shows populate their recording studios by average of 100 audiences per recording.
- Increased company revenue per show from 50,000 Naira to 120,000 naira within 0ne year.
Education
Lead City UniversityIbadan, Nigeria
Bachelor of Science from Economics
09.2007 - 11.2015
University Overview
- Member of Chess Team
- Professional development completed in Entrepreneurship
Saint Patrick's CollegeIbadan, Nigeria
High School Diploma
09.1999 - 07.2002
University Overview
Skills
Product Managment
undefinedAccomplishments
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with a team of 5 including 2 Engineers,1 Sales and marketing and 1 UI/UX designer in the development of Acada360 a note sharing platform. I was responsible for identifying the user personas, creating and implementing a go to market strategy as well as identifying what new features to add.
- Negotiated split payment integration when I was entrepreneur-in-residence at Tripican (an online event/movie ticket reservation platform) with a major payment gateway provider that saved us over $6,000 in implementation fees whilst also reassuring our partners of our commitment to pay for ticket sold promptly. This integration increased our business opportunities by 50% as more movie theatres and event organizers signed with us, and thus our revenue increased by over 100%
- Formed partnership with 7 commercial banks to link our API with the bank apps so that customers can easily and securely purchase event/movie tickets via their respective bank apps. This partnership lead to significant increase in sales due to customer confidence.
- leveraged on partnerships to pre-sell 8,000 tickets, that brought in 16,000,000 Naira in revenue. Our partners used the tickets for promotions and as gifts.
- Optimized the production process at Hapoti.ng furniture to improve the turn around and delivery time by 30%.
- Worked with the development team to identify and improve customer painpoints when using Hapoti.ng's website.
Certification
Business of Product Management I, Coursera
Timeline
The Art & Science of Product Management, Coursera
07-2023
Business of Product Management I, Coursera
06-2023
Business of Product Management II, Coursera
06-2023
IBM New Collar: Customer Engagement Specialist, Coursera
06-2023
Entrepreneur in Residence
Hapoti Furniture Limited
02.2016 - Current
Entrepreneur in House
Tripican Limited
03.2015 - 12.2015
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Businesses, Coursera
02-2014
Co-Founder
Eventvisa
01.2013 - 02.2015
Lead City University
Bachelor of Science from Economics
09.2007 - 11.2015
Saint Patrick's College
High School Diploma
09.1999 - 07.2002
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