Current Executives

Rachael Ebunoluwa Oke

 

Ms. Rachael Ebunoluwa Oke, a selfless achiever is from Ado-Ekiti. She is a super creative dynamic highly organised self-starter and a hardworking individual. A successful Senior PMO and data analyst with over 15 years’ experience with strong IT Skills spanned over 25years. She is also a superb London based entrepreneur.

Ms Oke has great experience on working on various high-profile projects, delivering end to end management of projects and possess excellent planning, risk and issue management, stakeholder management skills, brilliant complex data analyst, deployment, and procurement skills.

Over the years, she has worked within a high security environment which requires a high level of trust at all levels and has travelled across the region in the effort to bringing about sub-regional development and worked with various organisations including the Public Sector, Private Sector, Central Government, Local Government, Logistics, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Information Technology, NHS – Healthcare Sector, Retail, Charity/Not for profit sector. E.g

• Omolayo Junior School, Nigeria
• Jay-Bee International School, Uganda
• Pan African Movement Secretariat (PAM), Uganda (The Secretariat was funded by African Presidents)
• Pan African Development Education Programme (PADEAP), Uganda Office
• Akina Mama wa Afrika, Uganda
• Pan African Women’s Liberation Organization (PAWLO).
• Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation, Tanzania
• Organisation of African Unity (OAU) then, Ethiopia
• Pan African Development Education Programme (PADEAP), Nigeria Office
• Pan African Development Education Programme (PADEAP), London Office
• Justice Africa, London
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Uganda High Commission, London
• UK Department of Health England,
• NHS Strategic Health Authority, London
• NHS South West London – Project on Mental Health with Dr Gabby Ivbijaro, London
• National Society for the prevention of cruelty to children (NSPCC)
• Royal Mail Group Headquarters – IT Business Transformation Department, London

 Ms Oke holds a degree in BA (Hons) from University of Kent, England and also an accredited member of Association of Project Managers Group (APMG). She also holds several qualifications in IT. She is a super graphic designer.

Ms Oke’s big highlights:

In Uganda, she worked selflessly with the Pan African Movement headquarters in Uganda for couple of years. She worked with various Ministers and senior officials in the Government of Uganda. She also worked with the Government of Tanzania on the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation project. Ms Oke organised numerous conferences that saw over 1500 delegates attend on several occasions to attend conferences, seminars in Uganda.

After years of working on establishing harmonious relationships amongst local community and also assisted in ensuring good relations between Uganda and its immediate neighbours-Great lakes region, Ms Oke moved to UK and continued her career at the Uganda High Commission, London for 3years and again moved up to work at the Department of  Health UK.

At UK Department of Health, in 2008, she worked with the newly appointed NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency on a project to save NHS £20bn .

Previously as an IT deployment manager with the Royal Mail Group England for 6years, Ms Oke worked with the Business IT Transformation team and other great stakeholders on a multi-million pounds project to deliver technology change handheld Postal Digital Assistant (PDAs) and supported the recovery of £14m of lost revenue per annum through operational change. She helped in the build and deployment/rollout of 80,000 PDA devices including charging cradles, cabinets to store the PDAs, pouches, power leads, wi-fi equipment  throughout all the Royal mail estate that includes 2,500 Delivery Offices, Mail Centres and SPDOs. Ms Oke was not only acknowledged by senior officials and given accolades on several occasions, she was greatly acknowledge at RMG by high top officials and her name featured in the Royal Mail Group Business Programme success story.

With her great expertise in planning, she previously worked with the Uganda High Commission, London for 3years to organise the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2017 that brought 53 heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations to Uganda in 2017 to consult, share experiences and deliberate on issues of pan-commonwealth and international significance. Her Majesty the Queen also was in attendance to open the summit in Uganda. Ms Oke was involved in all the planning including protocol service and other actives with the Office of the President of Uganda who had to visit UK on several occasions for prep meetings.

With her creativity, she launched her clothing line, REO LUXE and a printing firm called REO Luxe Prints and Blingz that specialises in personalised items.

With her late Mum being an Educationist herself, who owned Day Care Nurseries in 3 countries and a successful Primary and boarding school in Nigeria before her demise, recently, Ms Oke also stepped into the Education sector and established REO Educational Services. As an education agent, she helps people find the right university, college, school, or nursery in the UK and assist in applying for a course. Her team also provides advise on matters such as visas, accommodation, travel and more. Most specially to support the BAME community especially the Youths.

 As a passionate Nigerian, a British national, co-founder of EDBN and the UK liaison officer to the Senior special assistant on Diaspora affairs Ekiti Government appointed in 2021. Ms Oke is highly delighted to be part of the great committed team to move Ekiti forward and willing to use her knowledge and experience in technology to support EDBN in achieving its set out mission and objectives.

 

Ayokunle Agunbiade

Cyber Security Professional / Solutions Expert

Providing cloud cyber security services for private and public
sectors across the UK. Advising and tailoring organization needs
within budget.

 

Worked at Greater London Authority - Office of Mayor of London UK as a Project Technical Operations Officer delivering various IT projects operations to over 1500 VIPs and Senior Executives including Mayor, Assembly Members, Directors
and Staff. Some of the services involved project planning, execution and closure through out project life cycle for all the Boroughs in London.

H O B B I E S
Reading, Photography / Video Editing, Live TV / Social Media Broadcast
Football , Sound Engineering, Disc Jockey

 

Olamuyiwa Mayowa Adesua

Transport Sector Professional

I am a confident, self-driven, detail oriented and analytical minded
individual with work experience spanning over 20 years in Railway Delivery
and Management. Ability to demonstrate excellent interpersonal
communication skills that promote trust with stakeholders.

S K I L L S
Mentorship, Social astuteness, Budgeting, Networking and Public speaking

Kolawole Fatimehin 

An educational enthusiast, with a drive for imparting knowledge with a track record of lecturing/tutoring at both
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Published more than four articles with a view of much more publications in
the near future.

PUBLICATIONS:
“Effect of Auditor Modification Choices on Corporate performance of Quoted Companies in Nigeria: Scholars Journal
of Economics, Business and management. – ISSN 2348-8875”
“Ownership Concentration and Dividend Per Share of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeeria. International Journal of
Recent Research in Commerce Economics and management (IJRRCEM) Vol 9, issue 2 pp: (116 – 125), May – June
2022. ISSN 2349-7807.”
“Staff Turnover and Financial Return of Nigerian Banks. International Journal of Research Publications and Reviews.
Vol 3, No 6, pp 588 – 596, June 2022. ISSN 2582-7421.”
“Impact of Staff Turnover on the Financial Performance of Nigerian Deposit Money Banks: International Journal of
Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD) Vol. 6, Issue 4, May-June 2022 – e-ISSN: 2456-6470.”
“Influence of Risk Assets Impairment on performance of Nigerian Listed Deposit Money Banks: International Journal
of Accounting and Financial Review{IJAFR} Vol.5, Issue3, 2020 – ISSN Online-2576-1293”
“Effect of Auditors Independence on Audit Quality: Evidence from Selected Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria - Tathapi-
(UGC Care Journal) – ISSN: 2320=0693-VOL=19-ISSUE=56-JUNE-2020”

 

 

Mr Adetokunbo Layorkun

 

Cllr Tunde Ajisolao

 

Volunteers

EDBN Europe welcome volunteers to the organization. We have many programs in place & will want to add volunteers who can bring fresh ideas, new skills and enthusiasm to our organization.

Our projects are open to all volunteers, and we work hard to tailor a volunteer program to individual skills and preferences. We do not require any specific skills but look for committed enthusiastic people who are willing to learn, contribute and immerse themselves in our projects.

We have a wide range of activities that volunteers can get involved with from practical field work to administrative, events, IT, Video production, photography, fundraising, etc.

Volunteering with us can give you the opportunity to enhance our organisation and the lives of people within the local communities, exchanging experience, knowledge and ideas, together with learning new skills.

We hope to form close friendships so you can continue to support us. We will ensure that as much as there is some hard work during your time here, there is a lot of fun and socializing too.

Please look through our website for details on specific projects that we are currently running. Regardless of your previous experience, there is flexibility in which project you can get involved with.

For more information on volunteer opportunities and how to get involved, please contact:

Ayokunle Agunbiade
Phone: +44 7939698717
Email: info@edbneurope.com
Web: www.edbneurope.com