About Oando

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Biola Lawal Group Chief Strategy Officer

Abiola Lawal is the Group Chief Strategy Officer (GCSO) of Oando PLC. Mr. Lawal was previously a Senior Manager with SAP Business Consulting in the United States where he focused his expertise in Strategy and Process efficiencies for fortune 500 companies in Energy, Telco, Oil & Gas and Consumer Product Industries. Mr. Lawal most recently led SAP’s Go-To-Market team at PepsiCo, a $30 billion Consumer Product company leveraging SAP tools to drive Strategy and Processes for Global Strategy and Execution. Prior to SAP, Mr. Lawal was CEO of eWorldtrack Mobile Technologies, Inc. a wireless tracking solution company in California, USA, where he led the company’s go-to-market strategy, product development, corporate development, capital raising and partnership development. Mr. Lawal previously worked as Manager both at Ernst & Young and The World Disney Company.

His areas of specialization are Corporate Visioning, Strategic Planning, M&A, and Organization Design. Other areas of expertise include Post Merger Integration, Balanced Scorecard, Risk Management, Financial Planning, Quality Assurance, Value Realization leveraging ERP investments. In addition to his role as GCSO at Oando, Abiola currently leads the group’s ERP Project dubbed “Project Synergy.”

Abiola has an MBA from the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine, USA focusing on Strategy & Finance and also possesses a B.Sc in Economics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.