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Alistair King, 2021 Pitcher Awards Heritage Jury President

Dozie Okafor

MD/CEO, PHD Nigeria

Channel Jury President

About

Dozie

Dozie started his career at OMD Nigeria in 2007.
He is a trained electrical engineer from the University of Nigeria and an alumnus of the Lagos Business School.

He has worked at both OMD Nigeria and OMD Ghana across numerous brands including Vodafone, Guinness, GSK, Distell, SC Johnson, StanbicIBTC, Beiersdorf amongst others.

He then moved to PHD Nigeria to serve for 5yrs as the pioneer head of Strategy and planning working on brands such as Ovaltine, Hennessy, PZ Cussons, Ariston, Apple and SC Johnson.

He served as the Media manager / IMC lead for Coca-Cola Nigeria, West Africa Business Unit where he managed Regional Integrated Marketing Communication and media/assets Development.

Dozie returned to PHD Nigeria in June 2017 as Managing director and provides oversight for PHD offices across Francophone West Africa.

He is currently the President of MIPAN1 and a faculty member of the Alphabet Media Academy.

He has also served on various jury panels namely Cannes Lions Media Jury, M&M Global Awards, Loeries Africa & Middle East, Pitcher Awards as well as internal PHD Light Awards.

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