Elo Umeh, the CEO of Terragon Group, emerged as one of “The Best & Brightest EMBAs of the Class of 2016“. He made the list of the Top50 EMBAs of 2016.
Elo recently completed an Executive MBA from IESE Business School in University of Navarra, Spain.
According to John Healy, Executive Director, Global Executive MBA Program, IESE Business School, on “What made Elochukwu Umeh such an invaluable addition to the class of 2016″
“Elochukwu Umeh is the embodiment of the new African executive with a global vision. Whilst still relatively young, he has fast-tracked his career in digital media by becoming an entrepreneur and has built one of the most significant companies in this sector in Africa.
“Elo’s vision is about creating something truly significant by helping others to become significant in their contribution to the project. Beyond this, he is highly committed to helping his people develop themselves to becoming the best that they truly can become. His life is about giving and receiving and then giving back again.“Elo is highly intelligent, respectful, and engaging. During the program, he has shared, both with class and faculty, his viewpoints of global business from an African perspective, and thus continually enriched the debate and more importantly the learning for himself and his peers. Beyond this, he is both proud of who he is and where he is from, but what is most disarming is his humility and his contribution, at both the academic and social levels.
“I have had the immense pleasure to watch Elo transform on each module of the program. We have often spoke about the learning, the experience, and the need to help African business and society. As a school, we feel privileged to count upon Elo as one of our alumni, as he represents what we aspire for them to be. That is, to achieve a transformational impact through our program and then to go forward and deliver this for his family, his company, and society. Elo has more than started his journey and will deliver much more in the years to come.”
IESE Business School at the University of Navarra is one of a handful of the very best business schools in Europe. Classes at IESE employ the Harvard-originated case study method, which bases learning on actual management situations.
Elo remarks that his biggest lesson from his study at IESE, is “The power and leverage of a properly trained manager can have a significant impact on a business, especially in an emerging market like Africa where the supply side of talent is limited. A business can foster significant competitive advantage by having individuals that are properly trained and equipped for the business terrain.”
Elo is a graduate of University of Lagos. He worked with MTech Communications Plc. before setting up Terragon Group. He is also a partner at L5Labs and a Co-Chair at Mobile Marketing Association, West Africa
