Team

FOLUSO PHILLIPS (Chairman) Mr. Foluso Phillips is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Phillips Consulting Limited, a business and management consulting firm, with offices in Nigeria and representation in South Africa. Phillips Consulting is the leading firm for transformation, technology and outsourcing in Africa, dedicated to devising strategies, enhancing work processes and developing the competence of employees. The firm is the largest indigenous management-consulting firm and has been operating since 1992. He is known within the industry for driving business results, delivery of exceptional product quality and service, and prudent management of people, technology and processes. He possesses over 40 years of global experience in financial, cost and business management; industrial operations management; human resource management; business process and human capital outsourcing, information technology systems implementation, and business management consulting. Foluso has played a great role for over 20 years, in promoting country and business-business engagements, encouraging and assisting companies to design market entry strategies to Nigeria and in facilitating trade. He is a strong advocate for local content engagements with foreign firms and an adviser to many international companies operating locally in Nigeria. Foluso who is very active in the Nigerian corporate scene, sits on the boards of diverse commercial and non-governmental organizations and charities, as director, trustee or shareholder. He is a Board member of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group; Chairman, Nigeria/South Africa Chamber of Commerce; Chairman PRIMERA Africa Group (a Finance and Financial Advisory Group). Mr. Phillips also serves as Director, Special Olympics of Nigeria; Director, Vigeo Holdings (a Power & Energy company in Nigeria); Chairman of The Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative; a Director of the Institute of Human Virology of Nigeria; Chairman Yellow Brick Road (a leading advertising and PR company in Nigeria); and is a member of the Board of Africa.Com. ( a Pan African digital news and communication platform). He is a prolific speaker, who has addressed many international business seminars and conferences including Wharton Business School and Harvard Business School both in U.S.A., Business in Africa’s Leadership Summit in South Africa and several other leadership conferences, Business and trade summits across Africa, the USA and Europe. Foluso Phillips has a very special interest and keen commitment to the African Renaissance and is extremely active in supporting Pan-African initiatives in different areas of endeavour.