Chris Ogbechie

Professor Chris Ogbechie is a Director with Palton Morgan Holdings. He has wide experience in marketing and strategy derived from his work as Head of Marketing/Sales at Nestle Nigeria, Xerox and from his consulting work with Nigerian firms over the years. While in Nestle he had wide international exposure in Malaysia, Singapore and Switzerland.

Former Chairman of Diamond Bank Plc, Professor Ogbechie teaches strategy, sustainability and corporate
governance at the Lagos Business School where he is currently the Dean, a visiting Professor Strathmore Business in Nairobi, Kenya and the University of Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda.; he is also the founding Director of the School’s Sustainability Centre. His current research and consulting interests are in strategic planning and corporate governance. He has several publications in financial services marketing, strategic planning, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance.

He has also presented papers in various international conferences. Some of his most notable publications include: Strategic Marketing of Financial Services – A Nigerian Perspective, and Re-engineering the Nigerian Society through Social Marketing.

Professor Ogbechie has been involved with several start-ups and he is on the board of several companies and has
led several consulting engagements involving Corporate and Business Strategy Development, Customer and
Employee Engagement measurement and process development, Marketing Strategy Development and
Restructuring for financial institutions all around Africa.