Olatomiwa Williams Appointed Microsoft Nigeria Country Manager

Microsoft has announced appointing Olatomiwa Williams as the new Country Manager for Nigeria, taking over from Akin Banuso who is now the Enterprise Commercial Lead for the Middle East and Africa– Multi market region.

Prior to her recent appointment, she was the Specialist Sales Leader working with an extended team and the company’s partner organizations to grow cloud revenue across enterprise customers and is equipped with over 21 years of Information technology experience which spans through Solution implementation, Solution Sales and Channels Management.

Ola joined Microsoft in 2010 as the Enterprise Voice Technology Specialist. She has also held various positions including Partner Technology Manager, Dynamics Partner Sales Executive as well as Account Technology Strategist, so now her new role requires her to lead Microsoft’s efforts to accelerate Nigeria’s Digital transformation and cloud adoption across all our customer segments. She will work to identify new opportunities and mobilize internal organization resources as well as external stakeholders.

Ola joins Microsoft’s Middle East and Africa – Multi market region’s Leadership team reporting directly to Microsoft’s Middle East and Africa – Multi market region’s General Manager, Ibrahim Youssry, who commented on Ola’s appointment:

“I’m proud of the significant contributions Akin has put in to accelerate the transformation journey our customers in Nigeria. I’m thrilled that Ola will bring her unique expertise to take the country to new heights and also play a part in the larger leadership team to design how we address the Africa’s business landscape.”

Olatomiwa Williams commented: “It’s a great honour to be taking on this exciting journey at a time when the organisation is focused on growing and accelerating Africa’s transformation. I am very optimistic of where Africa is headed and how we have a unique opportunity to use technology to really transform the lives and business in this region.”

Ola is a graduate of Computer Science from the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, and has a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Liverpool.