Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade

Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade is a Nigerian integrated communications professional, currently the Communications and Public Affairs Manager for Google West Africa.[1]

Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade

Career

Kola-Ogunlade obtained a Biochemistry honors degree from Lagos State University in Nigeria in 2001. In 2013, he got MBA from the same university. He has worked as Account Executive, Senior Account Executive and Account Director at Insight Grey (now Insight Publisis), an integrated communications group focused on West Africa communications, working out of Lagos, Nigeria.

In December 2011, he began a role at Google as the Head of Communications and Public Affairs for West Africa. His work involves communications planning and managing all forms of external media engagement for the company as spokesperson,[2][3][4][5]as well as training and supporting Africans newsrooms to incorporate new media and online strategies into news[6][7]

Kola-Ogunlade was a member of the expert assessment panel for the Nigeria Social Media report by Alder Consulting in 2013[8], and in 2017 he was a judge for the Innovate Africa Challenge towards providing grants and funding to support data-driven journalism, investigative reporting, and newsroom digitization to media houses in Africa.[9]

Recognition

Voted Top 100 most influential young Nigerians in 2016[10][11][7]

References
  1. "Science geek goes to Google". www.grocotts.co.za. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  2. "Google WiFi: Computer Village traders lament low internet activities". 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  3. "Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade's schedule for Social Media Week Lagos 2019". socialmediaweeklagos2019.sched.com. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  4. "Google Visits TINK". TINK. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  5. "BrandArena: Kola-ogunlade, Akpokabayen Headline O2 Academy Lagos Saturday Class". www.brandarena.com.ng. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  6. https://guardian.ng/features/google-trains-practitioners-on-digital-tools-for-reporting/
  7. "Google Nigeria Trains Practitioners On Google Tools For Data Journalism". BrandCrunch Nigeria. May 14, 2019.
  8. "AlderSMR Panel – Page 2". Alder Consulting. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  9. "Judges | innovateAFRICA". innovateafrica.fund.
  10. "Most Influential Young Nigerians » Homepage".
  11. "360NoBS' Oye Akideinde Voted Among The 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians". January 28, 2017.


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