Gillies Oyuke Okano

Gillies Oyuke Okano

$10/hr
Business development,sales ,marketing and E - commerce
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Age:
37 years old
Location:
Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Experience:
6 years
 Skills Product Development Strategy Business Management Mobile payments Payment processing Mobile wallets E – Commerce VAS Marketing Mobile Apps Mobile lending Mobile Advertising Mobile Internet Online Advertising Advertising Experience Ocharge Kenya April 2017 Lead Business Development, Mobile wallet and billers Regulatory and compliance issues with the Central Bank of various African countries Building relationships with Bank for E – Wallet management Designing and coming up with the Ocharge Wallet business wallet and Process flow Sourcing, creating and managing Ocharge – billers relationships Research and Product development cYBER cITY SOLUTIONS LIMITED April 2016 – Dec 2016 Head of Product, Marketing and Business Development Co – founder Product conceptualization Product road mapping Product research Wireframing/specs User experience Analytics pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction Developing relevant product documentation and ensuring that Products being developed are in line with company Products Strategy. Planning and execution of marketing activities on social media and below the line marketing. Achievements: 1. Overseeing and cordinating development ,creation and launch of Saiba user App 2. Overseeing and cordinating development,creation and launch of Saiba mPos App AFMOBI EAST AFRICA LIMITED (A SUBSIDIARY OF TECNO TELECOM) December 2013 – March 2016 Assistance Product head and Business development executive Product conceptualization Wireframing Gaining a deep understanding of customer experience to identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that will grow market share, improve customer experience, and drive growth Surveying the local market for value-added services market, understand its direction and reporting on the various activities Strategic Business Development with Strategic partners in the region Achievements: 1. I oversaw the creation of a music streaming App (Boom player) that ganared five million users in Africa within four months 2. Overseeing the creation and launch of Palmchat ( Social netwotking App) that grew to two million users in Africa within three months 3. I oversaw the creation,development and launching of Tecno’s App Store (Palmplay) that grew to eight million active users in Africa in two years 4. Conceptualization developing and implementation of Palmcoin (A virtual currency/payment instrument ) put in place to handle in App purchase of content on Plamchat and Boomplayer AFMOBI EAST AFRICA LIMITED (A SUBSIDIARY OF TECNO TELECOM) May 2013 – December 2013 Head of Mobile Value-Added services Creating,scheduling and blasting shortcode text content Shortcode revenue optimization Research Business development Achievements: 1. Implementation of Shortcode billing for In App purchases that saw a steady revenue of at least KES twenty million every month 2. Cross border value added service business development and launch (Uganda and Rwanda) Education Jomo Kenyatta university of agricuture and technologY2009 - 2013 Bachelor of Commerce LENANA SCHOOL 2004 - 2007 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Ruby Kraft 1996 - 2003 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Referrals On Request
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