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Egunjobi nominated for AMBA MBA entrepreneurship venture award

Egunjobi nominated for AMBA MBA entrepreneurship venture award

Goke Egunjobi, founder and CEO, Paper Craft-I-impact Product Services Ltd, a thermal paper roll manufacturing plant & digital payment solutions company in Lagos, has been nominated for the Association of MBAs (AMBA) Entrepreneurship Venture Award (Private Sector) 2020.

Egunjobi is a seasoned digital payment professional with vast experience across technology solutions and products development, sales and business development and high-level people management skills.

He started his career as the debit card product manager, First City Monument Bank in Nigeria, after his postgraduate degree from University of Bedfordshire. Business School Luton in 2004.

Having developed the debit card product, he was head-hunted to BankPHB to develop the Virtual Digital Channels for BankPHB and was promoted head the Digital Virtual-Channels of BankPHB.

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He spent some time  in Stanbic IBTC as the manager, Self-Service Digital Channels before taking up a role as general manager, product & sales of iPartners (a Cisco Gold Partner); senior account manager for Resourcery Plc, where he acquired enormous experience in building and selling IT/E-business solution businesses. He left Resourcery for Enterprise Bank where he led as the head of E-Channels & Mobile Money for Enterprise Bank Plc, spearheading the development of digital electronic channels as alternative channels for delivery of banking services through ATM, PoS, mobile, internet banking.

He has a Bsc in Computer Science from University of Ado Ekiti- Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State Nigeria and M.Sc E-Business Management from the Luton Business School, England. He had acquired experience before going back to build a digital payment solutions & consumable manufacturing company to impact  the e-business digital payment sphere by providing lasting solutions that would deliver efficiency in IT/E-business digital products and it’s enabling consumables needed as transactional receipts for digital payment channels.

He is a well-rounded business professional with technical background and vast business management skills e-g: product and project management, Cisco sales expert with commercial acumen, P& L management. Presently finished an Executive MBA in the Prestigious Lagos Business School and bagged the ‘Entrepreneur Award of the Year for the set: EMBA 22, 2019’ with distinctions in marketing, international business management, strategy, organisation behaviour, and strategy in emerging markets and his final year project which eventually turned to life implemented thermal paper business with clients spread in Nigeria & West Africa.

Some of his previous awards and recognitions include:  Entrepreneur Award of the Year 2018-Executive MBA 22 Set, Lagos Business School. Nigeria,  $35,000.00 MSME Grant: Growth & Empowerment Programme Grant for MSME by World Bank & Ministry of Trade & Investment Nigeria, driven by PWC-Nigeria 2019 for the best business plan around light manufacturing sector in Nigeria.