Continuing our series of interviews with AMBA & BGA Excellence Award finalists, today we speak to Goke Egunjobi is the Founder-CEO, Paper Craft-I-impact product Services Ltd and graduate of Lagos Business School. He is shortlisted in the category of MBA Entrepreneurial Venture Award (private sector)
Goke Egunjobi is the Founder-CEO, Paper Craft-I-impact product Services Ltd; a Thermal paper rolls Manufacturing Plant & Digital Payment Solutions company in Lagos Nigeria with a turnover of about $250,000 in its first first year.
A seasoned digital payment professional with vast experience across technology solutions and products development, sales and business development and high level people management skills.
He started his career as the Debit Card Product Manager, First City Monument Bank in Nigeria after his postgraduate degree from University of Bedfordshire Business School in 2004.
Having developed the debit card product, he was head-hunted to BankPHB to develop its virtual digital channels and was promoted the Head, Digital Virtual-Channels.
He spent some time in Stanbic IBTC as the Manager, Self-Service Digital Channels before taking up a role as General Manager, Product and Sales of iPartners; and Senior Account Manager for Resourcery Plc. He left Resourcery for Enterprise Bank where he lead as the Head E-Channels and Mobile Money for Enterprise Bank, spearheading the development of Digital electronic channels as alternative channels for delivery of banking services through ATM, PoS, Mobile, and Internet Banking, finally achieving the role of Country Representative of Security, Software & Solutions-Mumbai-India.
He has a BSc computer science from University of Ado Ekiti- Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State Nigeria and MSc e-business management from the Luton Business School, UK.
He set up a digital payment solutions and consumable manufacturing company to impact into the e-business digital payment sphere, by providing solutions that would deliver efficiency in IT/e-business digital products and it’s enabling consumables needed as transactional receipts for digital payment channels.
He completed his Executive MBA at Lagos Business School and his final year project which eventually turned to life implemented thermal paper business with clients spread in Nigeria and West Africa.
Have you always aspired to be an entrepreneur?
Yes, I have always aspired to be an entrepreneur but knew I needed both corporate world experience and sales experience before embarking on my entrepreneurship career. So, I started my career with the bank and thereafter found opportunity to lead a sales team and took on the role. This exposed me to P&L management and marketing, great business skill acumen for every entrepreneur. I was also, lastly before I built Paper-Craft, a country representative and a thermal paper merchandiser for a Mumbai based company where I acquired core trade, entrepreneurship and business skill acumen. I believe being an entrepreneur; I can impact the world by value creation to clientele, and employment for the people and be part of the sustainable development goal to make the world a better place for humanity.
If you were to win this award, how would that make a difference to you and the organisation?
Winning this award will be a lifetime fulfillment to me and my team at PaperCraft ( I-impact Product & Services Ltd, Lagos-Nigeria. As our organisation slogan says: ‘think-strive-achieve’; the award would be a confirmation of our theme as we think, strive to achieve excellence.
The award would distinguish me from other entrepreneurs and would define my capability as a finalist and winner of the AMBA & BGA Excellence Award, in London. It would be an award of excellence which I would forever defend in by remaining ethical in my business dealings.
