Olu Akanmu is the Managing Executive for Retail and Consumer Banking at BankPHB, Nigeria. He has diverse experience at senior levels across several key industries and sectors, including manufacturing, consumer goods, health care, social development, telecommunications and financial services. Prior positions include Marketing Manager, Glaxo Nigeria, Chief Operating Officer, Society for Family Health, and Client Service Director, Insight Grey (the largest advertising agency in West Africa). He was also General Manager, Consumer Marketing at MTN Nigeria, where he played critical and leading commercial roles from start-up in the phenomenal growth of MTN Nigeria's subscriber base to a network of ten million customers in five years.

Olu is a leader in Business Strategy, Marketing and Management and his articles, interviews and public presentations are highly sought-after in the Nigerian Consumer Business Community. In 1998 he took part in a nine-month Management Advancement Programme at the Graduate School of Business, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he passed with distinction and won the overall best student prize. He publishes a blog on business strategy at www.olusfile.blogspot.com.