A Mason Fellow of Harvard University and Lecturer at MIT Sloan, Funke is our resident Marketing Expert, with extensive experience is building marketing campaigns, developing positioning strategy and building personaes.

Harvard

MIT Sloan

PhD – University of Kenya

Natively a programmer, Kennedy is an enterprise architect who has done incredible things with technology, making them effective, performant and sustainable, when solutions have seemed impossible. He understands his domain thoroughly and lives and breathes it. Kennedy likes nothing better than to get a complex set of technical problems to create an intricate but simply executed technological soultion for, and he has done it for the likes of Visa, Goldman Sachs and Visa.

A graduate of Queen Mary and Westfield School of Engineering, Kennedy was an early proponent of Artificial Intelligence. He has since been a leader in the Java/J2EE world, creating and evangelising strategic technology stacks with enterprise and application level security as a focus.

Chinenye has done work in change management and developing operating models and Software Testing and QA frameworks for companies lie HSBC, Lloyd’s Banking Group, Lloyds of London and British American Tobacco amongst several other global companies. Active in civic and professional affairs, Chinenye is very interested in helping and mentoring young people.  Chinenye is a graduate of Cass Business School, where she focused on Innovation and Brand Strategies. Harvard College Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Graduate School of Business Administration.

When recently asked for advice on making good career choices she said, “To stand out, be strategic and future ready,do what companies have to do. Keep it top of mind that times are changing and the world will look vastly different in five years from wherever you start. What will you contribute, where will you be, what would you be the best at and how can you make the greatest impact? Allow yourself to really look around and factor in the disruption that is sure to come. Educate yourself and get really comfortable with change. Then when you think you have found a fit, you will be in a stronger position to make that a reality than if you didn’t scan the horizon”. 

Chinenye believes that change is our inheritance and our future and has set up Iconify businesses harness and bend change to their advantage.

Chinenye is a leading voice in advocating bringing together the transformational activities that business has to do with the brand protection, strategy and leverage activities that have traditionally been siloed.

She is also passionate about collaboration right across organisations Iconify engages with but also in partnering with different suppliers with broad expertise, bringing together the right group of people to solve the problems that client has.