April 9, (THEWILL) – Advertising guru, Tunji Olugbodi, founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Verdant Zeal Group, a multi-disciplinary marketing and communications outfit with two international branches in key locations across the West Coast of Africa, recently clocked 60.
The day went by like any other. Rather than throw a lavish party, Olugbodi chose to have a quiet celebration with his staff serenading him for achieving such a milestone. For almost two decades, Olugbodi has bestrode Nigeria‘s marketing and advertising terrain like a colossus, leading Verdant Zeal on a progressive trajectory, morphing from a multi-disciplinary organisation into a multi-contextual group with specialised brand marketing competence in Strategy, Content Conceptualisation and Development, Digital & Interactive Media, Public Relations & Custom Publishing, Activation & Experiential Marketing, Specialist Communication, Entertainment, and Intellectual Interventions.
A prolific and eloquent speaker, and a professional par excellence, Olugbodi has graced several stages, speaking on customer service, marketing, leadership, strategic networking, public relations, risk and crisis management amongst others.
Personable, confident and enthusiastic, Olugbodi has handled and co-ordinated several high-profile campaigns and effectively managed account teams, supervised the setting up and running of specialist operations across the whole spectrum of marketing and communications.
Olugbodi is also the convener of The Innovention Series, an annual Thought Leadership Convo that hosts creative and conceptual thinkers to a roundtable discussion on how to apply the concept of innovation to development. The platform has featured many distinguished intellectuals, political leaders and captains of industry.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
