Jacob is an accomplished Telecoms professional with over 15 years’ experience in the Information Communication and Technology sector.
Jacob is an accomplished Telecoms professional with over 15 years’ experience in the Information Communication and Technology sector.
Jacob is co-founder responsible for strategy and implementation of mobile VAS for Jacobs Canaan, an innovative solutions provider of media-rich content and applications operating in the Nigerian ICT services domain.
Prior to this, he had been employed in a variety of business and technical roles at Financial Times, British Telecom and COLT Telecom, UK where he managed acceptance testing and business implementation for the rollout of Fault Management, Service Request systems and Customer Configuration Database to 9 European Internet Solution Centres.
He later joined MTN Nigeria as inaugural Test Manager responsible for quality assurance of product and services launches as well as system implementations. He went on to head the Enterprise Product Development team and was Acting General Manager for Enterprise Marketing with primary responsibility for strategic development and marketing for the life cycle of business segment core products and propositions, value-added content/ data services, and promotions portfolio.
Jacob has been involved in the building of a ‘global village’ where people can communicate in real time with others in different countries using innovative and dynamic technologies to deliver world-class service to a growing and ever demanding market place. He managed several products and services go – to – market launches including Email and PIM solutions, Blackberry, WiMAX and video conferencing solutions whilst at MTN Nigeria.
He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies and a Post Graduate in Marketing Management obtained from Middlesex University Business School and is an Alumnus of the Pan African University (LBS).