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MasterCard Appoints Omokehinde Ojomuyide Vice President of Business development

By on September 29, 2011

MasterCard Worldwide has made two new appointments in its Nigerian office as part of its business development strategy to grow the company’s operations and presence in Nigeria and across West Africa.

Omokehinde Ojomuyide was appointed Vice President of Business development for the West African business, based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Ojomuyide joins MasterCard from Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), where she was based for five years, four of which were spent as the Head of Cards and Product Development. Prior to GTBank, Ojomuyide worked at Econet (now Airtel). She holds an MBA from the Lagos Business School, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Kamil Olufowobi was appointed as an Associate Vice President: Account Management for the West African business in Lagos. He joins MasterCard from the United Bank for Africa (UBA) where he headed the retail products and sales unit for Nigeria.

Prior to this, he was responsible for UBA’s segment banking, where he revamped the organisation’s Prestige Banking model, for its affluent customers, according to a release by Aderayo Bankole of CMC Connect (Perception Managers).

Olufowobi has extensive experience in relationship management and consulting in the United States, Singapore, the UK and Nigeria for a number of organisations including IBM,  The Conference Board (New York), Siemens Corporation (USA), World Travel & Tourism Council (London), Merck Sharp & Dohme (Singapore) Ltd and ExxonMobil (Nigeria).

Olufowobi holds a Master’s Degree in Global Business Economics from Rutgers University’s Graduate School, New Jersey, USA, where he graduated cum laude.

Kamil also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology Communications from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the USA, completing the course with an exchange programme at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore.

Kamil co-founded and volunteers his time with NiPRO, a global network of more than half a million Nigerian professionals worldwide.

Ojomuyide has a solid understanding of the payments industry and MasterCard’s business through her association with GTBank.

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One Comment

  1. Derealtechnologies

    May 12, 2012 at 11:14 am

    Good day! How can I get a master card here in Nigeria?