Adia Sowho Chief Marketing Officer, MTN
Adia Sowho (re)builds, operates, and scales technology ventures. She has successfully designed, built and scaled tech-driven platform companies in emerging markets, delivering +$100M businesses. She is also an angel investor and startup board member/advisor.
Adia is the Chief Marketing Officer for MTN Nigeria. She has successfully designed, built and scaled tech-driven platform companies in emerging markets delivering +$100M businesses. Adia is a graduate of the Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and from University of Sheffield with a degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. She was previously the interim CEO for an agriculture fintech called Thrive Agric. Before that, she was the VP of Growth and Managing Director, Nigeria for Migo (formerly Mines.io): a machine learning-powered instant credit platform. She was also the Director of Digital Business at 9mobile (formerly Etisalat Nigeria) where she was responsible for partnering with startups to deliver mobile content, advertising, financial and API services. Adia also sits on the boards of and advises several tech startups / scale-ups.
