#40. CHIDI AFULEZI - NO ONE IS PLOTTING YOUR GREATNESS!

Chidi Afulezi is a product management and media guy with a broad set of experiences in the corporate and entrepreneurial arenas. His product chops were honed at Sony Music, Time Warner, and Turner Broadcasting/CNN (now WarnerMedia) where he led mobile and digital product teams, and prior to that was a key member of the wireless engineering team that designed and built AT&T's digital wireless network in the Washington DC-Baltimore markets. He wears his entrepreneurial hat modestly with three failed ventures and now on his fourth venture, The Massive Company—a media and communications venture studio cofounded with Zain Verjee and focused on the continent of Africa and its diaspora. He and Zain also run the Zain Verjee Group, a communications consulting company.

Chidi is also Managing Principal of redKola Digital, a product consulting and advisory outfit based in Atlanta and Kigali. As a teacher and instructor, he is the Head Faculty of PIE (Product, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation) at the African Leadership University School of Business, a role helping lead a product and media shift on the continent. In addition, he is a member of the Product Management Executive Education faculty at the Haas School of Business (University of California at Berkeley), and a product management Enterprise Instructor with General Assembly. Chidi has led product workshops and programs at blue-chip companies such as Walmart, United Technologies, Delta Airlines, Cox Media amongst others, plus product work with startups such as ALU, Moringa School, and more.

A recipient of bachelor’s degrees from New York University in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, he also holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU.

For more on Chidi, visit chidiafulezi.com.

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