Join us live on YouTube tomorrow as Black Genius returns for Episode 11! We’ll be speaking with Lagos-based media entrepreneur, Lanre Aina!
Lanre Aina is Co-founder of Content Garage, a video production company that focuses on building high-quality and low-cost video content for small businesses and large brands across Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last three years of leading Content Garage, he has worked on over 30 digital commercials for some of the top brands in Nigeria. For example, Samsung, MTN, Google, Facebook, Nestle, Wikipedia, Access Bank and Diageo – helping these businesses actualize new ways of engaging with their customers through compelling digital storytelling.
Before Content Garage, Lanre worked at Google as a Brand Activation Lead, where he supported both the Nigeria and Kenya markets helping large brands to develop effective digital strategies and integrated experiential marketing using online video. In his earlier days at Google, he worked as a Business Development Analyst, where he ran point supporting Google’s online publisher community as well as launching and growing YouTube’s content partnerships in Nigeria.
Today, he is focusing his attention on sports-media, using his experience at Google and Content Garage to build an African-focused sports entertainment venture, ATHLST.
Lanre is also passionate about social enterprise. He served as a founding member of Harambeans, the leading network of market-creating African entrepreneurs founded by Okendo Lewis-Gayle. In his spare time, he volunteers his skills supporting peer mentorship and youth-focused career advisory programs in Lagos.
He is a graduate of Computer Engineering, with an advanced degree in Telecoms Systems Management from Northeastern University, Boston. Lanre is happily married to his best friend, Tele, and they live in Lagos with their two sons, Akinolu and Tamilore.
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