Becoming A Champion

Dr Nick Okoye is a serial entrepreneur, he has several professional and entrepreneurial accomplishments, including but not limited to his service as a Financial Consult and global investment adviser with Merrill Lynch, one of the World’s most reputable Investment Banks at the time, now Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In addition, Dr Okoye served as Chief Strategy Officer and head of derivatives of the Nigeria Stock Exchange, now Nigerian Exchange. He also served as Transformation Strategy Adviser overseeing the transformation of the Central Securities Clearing System, the Nigerian Capital Market’s securities depository and clearing house.

Dr Okoye co-founded and became the first Group Executive Director of Operations and Strategy (COO), of the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp Plc), an African conglomerate he helped to design, build and grow. He subsequently led Transcorp Plc’s development from its startup conception phase, its foundation stage, its fund-raising stage, its rapid growth by acquisition and all the way to its public listing phase. It is pertinent to note that Dr Okoye led all the initial fund-raising exercises for Transcorp Plc raising over one billion US dollars ($1 billion) within a 12 months period, which was then recorded as one of the most remarkable corporate fund-raising exercises in the history of Africa’s capital markets. Dr Nick Okoye has advised and supported two Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria serving as a board member of the National Council on Small and Medium Enterprises and a member of the Presidential Jobs Board. He has also advised two Governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria and its leadership team in developing an Entrepreneurship clinic for Nigeria and a CBN oversight capital market strategy. He is the founder and chief executive of Anabel Group, which includes Anabel Mobile, Africa’s first design and manufacturer of mobile devices using Microsoft’s then Windows Mobile OS, Anabel technology innovator of the Mobile-Government solution, and Anabel Leadership Academy.

To his credit and as a true demonstration of his passion for National Development, he founded the Nicky Okoye Foundation, which itself founded, convened and operates the Nigeria Leadership Summit, Nigeria’s largest independent privately organized summit on Leadership. He also founded and operates the Empower Nigeria Initiative, which grew to four hundred thousand entrepreneurship members driving and supporting a National entrepreneurship revolution. More recently, on the 6^th of July 2021, the Nicky Okoye Foundation signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, for the implementation of the African Enterprise Initiative, which is a comprehensive strategy for the aggregation of global investment as well as the development and the expansion into global markets for Africa’s teeming micro, small and medium enterprises. Dr Nick Okoye currently serves on several governing boards of corporate institutions and initiatives across the World.

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Becoming a Champion
“My serial Entrepreneurship journey, raising over one billion dollars in capital and acquiring three Conglomerates”

….is a detailed insight into Nicky Okoye’s serial Entrepreneurship journey, his challenges during the difficult moments of supporting the restructuring of Nigeria’s capital markets, creating a billion dollar valuation startup enterprise, and advising as well as supporting new strategies for small business development in Africa, especially when the situation looked hopeless.

Nick Okoye gives us uncensored access into his mind during those times, the roles played by some of Nigeria’s most influential and most successful entrepreneurs and politicians and he guides us through his eventual triumphs, against all odds, operating in one of the World’s most difficult financial and business environments for a young person of African descent to choose to make a name for himself.

“Becoming a Champion” takes us behind the scenes on how Dr Nicky Okoye, as he is now known, left his comfort zone as an investment banker and financial consultant with Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America Merrill Lynch) in the United States, and dived into the uncertainty of the Nigerian financial and capital markets, eventually co-founding and becoming the first executive of a newly formed African conglomerate, which grew to a billion dollar valuation in less than twelve months from inception.

“Becoming a Champion” also provides a unique road map for the next generation of young Corporate gurus, entrepreneurs and financial wizkids seeking to redefine the landscape and set their own rules. Using Nicky Okoye’s experiences as a guide into the expectations of African markets and their major influencers.

Some of the most valuable material in this book are the strategic connections Nick Okoye makes between the business, financial and political challenges of his generation in Africa and he discusses some of the golden opportunities of the 21st Century, which most Gen Z and millennials can relate too. The book contains Dr Okoye’s impressive five pillars of Business Development Strategy, his Nine steps to Personal Success and Improvement as well as his big ideas on low hanging Entrepreneurship opportunities in Africa and Nigeria specifically, that have not been grabbed by even the smartest of Nigeria’s army of young Enterprising Entrepreneurs.

Those foreign executives and entrepreneurs seeking to access Nigeria’s consumer markets, major projects or to participate in direct or portfolio investments, or those international executives that currently operate across Africa will find “Becoming a Champion” a very insight companion.

In addition, Becoming a Champion is indeed a treat for all growing entrepreneurs seeking the inspiration to keep at the cutting edge of their game. It is particularly a must read for those of Dr Okoye’s generation who will recognise the names and the influential players in business, finance and politics that he had to deal during that era, having said that, It is especially, an ideal companion for business and political Leaders of African descent, who seek to implement strategic developmental models and policies for wealth creation which provides a pathway to new jobs.