Creative Director

Brand &
Growth
Expert

Strategy · Culture · Performance

View Selected Work
60M+
Customers Reached
167K
New Users in 12 Weeks
6+
Years Experience
12+
Brand Sectors

I ask every new client the same question before I touch anything: what do you think the problem is?

The answer is rarely the actual blocker. It’s usually foundational, in the communication pattern, the system that never got built, the story the brand keeps telling that no longer fits where it’s trying to go.

I have spent six years finding and closing such gaps in business strategy and marketing, leading multi-million-naira campaigns for financial institutions, scaling digital products, and transforming legacy brands into growth-focused, digitally fluent businesses. From banking activations reaching 60M+ customers to digital campaigns delivering 167,000 new users in 12 weeks, I make brand vision tangible with measurable business outcomes.

Brand & Growth Strategy
Integrated Campaign Direction
Go-to-Market Architecture
Marketing Infrastructure
Executive Communications
Product & Platform Positioning

Work that
matters

01
Access Bank
Nigeria’s Largest Retail Bank · 60M+ Customers · 2024–2026

I served as Creative Director on the agency side, directing campaigns across retail, SME, and private banking segments while managing output for 15–30 weekly briefs spanning in-app messaging, email, events, and national activations. I built go-to-market strategies for new financial products, developed product branding that drove adoption, and shaped narrative architecture for USSD campaigns and DiamondXtra, the bank’s flagship savings and rewards program.

Impact — I directed creative for a brand touching 1 in 3 Nigerians. This required balancing scale with personalization across multiple product lines and customer lifecycles.
Brand CommunicationsCreative DirectionCampaign StrategyATL / BTL
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02
Learn Africa
Legacy Publishing House → Edtech · 2024–2026

How does a 40-year-old publishing institution become a competitive digital education platform? I answered this by building marketing infrastructure from the ground up: brand and content frameworks, and channel strategies that aligned legacy equity with modern edtech positioning. My work spanned product build input, marketing and partnership advisory, monthly calendar execution, campaign delivery, and ad approvals. The user acquisition campaign we began with generated 167,000 new app users and over 1.2 million impressions in 12 weeks, through paid social and search alone.

Impact — 167,000 new app users. 1.2M+ impressions in 12 weeks. We positioned the print-era brand as a digitally fluent education company.
Digital MarketingBrand CommunicationsGTM StrategyBusiness Consulting
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03
Sparkle MFB
Nigeria’s Premium Lifestyle Banking Platform · 2024–2026

Sparkle positions itself as the lifestyle bank for ambitious Nigerians who want financial services that understand their world. I developed creative concepts that translated banking features into culturally aligned statements, working rapid-turnaround ideation that required great knowledge of brand aspiration and conversion goals.

Impact — Brand visibility built through culturally resonant executions that set Sparkle apart from legacy banking and fintech disruptors.
Campaign IdeationBrand CommunicationsCreative Direction
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04
Alara Lagos
Luxury Lifestyle Destination · African Art, Fashion & Design · 2021

Alara is where Africa’s creative elite gather, a luxury retail and cultural space in Victoria Island curating the continent’s finest designers, artists, and culinary experiences. Campaigns for exclusive launches, seasonal collections, and B2B collaborations with global fashion houses, producing high-concept editorial content, managing media relations with international fashion press, and running influencer partnerships that drove foot traffic and online engagement.

Impact — Maintained Alara’s positioning as West Africa’s premier luxury lifestyle destination through storytelling that honored African design heritage and global luxury standards.
Social Media StrategyContent DevelopmentBrand PartnershipsLuxury Marketing
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05
Hertunba
African Fashion Brand · Global Expansion · 2024

During Hertunba’s international expansion, I designed communication processes and collateral to prepare the brand for global stages. I built press materials and frameworks for collection launches, directed a magazine, and produced social content that positioned the brand within contemporary African fashion narratives while speaking to international buyers and press.

The brand magazine below was produced for Hertunba’s London pop-up, 2024.

Impact — I built scalable communication systems during a critical growth phase, supporting successful international debuts and press placements.
Brand CommunicationsMarketing StrategyPress PartnershipsArt Direction
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06
Marin Hair Transplant
Medical Aesthetics Clinic · 2025

This leading hair transplant firm in the Bay Area required an overhaul of digital presence to match the sophistication of medical services. This required a rewrite of website content that combined clinical authority with empathetic, patient-first messaging. I built marketing infrastructure from scratch and produced AI-generated video content that drove conversion in accessible, relatable ways.

Impact — Marketing infrastructure developed for business success and modernized brand perception in a highly competitive market.
Website DevelopmentMarketing InfrastructureAI ContentGTM Strategy
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Consulting Practice

HARDLINE

Business, Content & Impact Strategy · 2020–Present

We built Hardline as a consulting practice for founders, creatives, professionals, and organizations who needed strategic communications outside a traditional agency structure. Early work centered on ghostwriting and service advisement: entrepreneurial guides, educational ebooks, and articles across legal, energy, and orthodontics sectors, translating specialist expertise into content general audiences could actually use. Work also included website content for Kuvertrust Consulting, and influencer partnerships for Culturati.

Hardline also builds the full back-end of launches for entrepreneurs, creatives, and musicians: brand bibles, marketing plans, and the behind-the-scenes work of admin, legal, and placements that rollout and go to market actually depends on.

More recently, Hardline’s focus has tilted toward impact work. We have designed and executed two women-focused events, reaching 70 women and 150 women respectively, and supported partnership acquisition to help fund and staff both. A psychosocial healing initiative is also on the roster and we build the communications infrastructure for its work with young adults.

In 2026, Hardline experimental campaigns have driven over three million monthly views on organic accounts and grown following from zero to hundreds.

Impact — 3M+ monthly views on organic accounts. Two women-focused events reaching 220 women combined. Zero paid spend.
Business StrategyContent MarketingWebsite DevelopmentImpact CommunicationsEvent StrategyPartnership Development

What I
Do Best

Integrated campaigns, marketing systems, and the words and images that move brands from where they are to where they need to be.

01
Brand & Campaign Strategy
Positioning, messaging frameworks, and campaign architectures that define what you stand for and drive business results.
02
Creative Direction
Integrated campaigns across channels with creative consistency and cultural resonance at every touchpoint.
03
Integrated Marketing
End-to-end programs connecting strategy, creative, media, and measurement into cohesive growth engines.
04
Content Development
Best in class website copy, video scripts, social content, and editorial campaigns that bring brands to life and convert.
05
Website Development
Digital experiences that convert, combining UX intuition, persuasive copy, and brand storytelling.
06
Personal Branding
Content strategies, ghostwriting, LinkedIn presence, and executive narratives that help leaders communicate their unique value.
07
SEO & GEO
Content structured for search and AI-driven discovery, built to surface in both traditional results and generative answers.

Across Industries & Scales

Cardinal Stone
Investment & Securities · 2024–2026
Creative concepts and visual executions for internal communications, print collateral, and investor materials.
Multigate
B2B Services · 2025
Identity development and messaging architecture, including 2D animated explainer videos that clarified service offerings and enabled sales conversations.
The Republic
Agency · 2024–2026
Communications and creative execution leadership within the team, alongside process setups that improved agency efficiency.
Capri-Sun
FMCG · 2024
Campaign ideation and brand communications for consumer activation and retail presence.
Prudential Zenith
Life Insurance · 2024
Brand executions and marketing collateral turning complex insurance products into clear, trust-building consumer narratives.
Chivita
FMCG · 2024
Creative direction and campaign development for consumer-facing brand activations and product communications.
Visit Nigeria
Tourism Initiative · 2025–2026
Website content, partnership pitch decks, and press materials repositioning Nigeria’s tourism narrative for international and diaspora audiences.
Chayim Diagnostics
Healthcare · 2024
Website content and UGC campaigns that built trust and awareness for diagnostic services in underserved markets.
Luminous Voyage & Tours
Travel · 2024–2026
Brand marketing and communications planning for this boutique travel and tours company, including content partnership executions with Qatar Airways.
Gather
Tech Startup · 2025
Go-to-market strategy and website messaging for a community-building platform, focusing on value proposition clarity and early adopter activation.
NIBSS
Fintech Infrastructure · 2024
Digital marketing campaigns promoting interbank payment systems to financial institutions and consumers.
Custodian Investment
Financial Services · 2024
Brand executions across marketing collateral, presentations, and client-facing materials.
Lid Stores
Retail · 2024–2026
Brand identity refinement and relaunch campaign including ad creative, in-store messaging, and social content repositioning for a younger demographic.
I build campaigns and processes based on clarity, cultural intelligence, the courage to say things that matter, and the thinking to build things that last.

Whether I’m directing a campaign for 60 million bank customers or crafting the brand story for a founder’s first product, my obsession is the same: every word, image, and idea earns its place.

I have done this agency-side and in-house. Built teams and executed solo, validated million-customer campaign ideas and products, and wrote decks that closed deals. I prove that marketing is most powerful when it is both art and science, when creativity serves strategy, and strategy serves growth.

Let’s build
something
that matters

Available for brand strategy, creative direction, integrated campaigns, and consulting engagements. Let’s talk about what you’re building.

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