Alero Balogun is the General Manager, Corporate Communications, at Oando PLC, where she leads all communications for the parent company and its subsidiary brands across exploration and production, trading, and clean energy.

With over 20 years of experience spanning Marketing, Communications, and more recently Corporate Services (Human Resources, Services, and Procurement), she has built a reputation for brand-building that is both commercially rigorous and creatively distinct. Most recently, she led the communications and people functions through the circa $780 million acquisition of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in 2024, a transaction that transformed the company into a 3,000-strong organization overnight.

She joined Oando in 2013 as Corporate Communications Manager, rising to Head of Corporate Communications with a remit spanning internal and external brand perception, positioning Oando as the most desirable company to work and invest in. Earlier in her tenure, she managed the communications strategy for Oando's $1.5 billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips Nigeria in 2014, demonstrating an early command of high-stakes, high-visibility transactions.

Prior to joining the company, she held roles at marketing agencies in the United Kingdom and Nigeria, leading campaigns for brands including Microsoft, Columbia Tristar, Cadbury, Elizabeth Arden, Virgin Nigeria, and the Dangote Group.

A respected voice in the marketing and communications community, she has spoken at the O2 Advertising Academy and across panels in Nigeria, South Africa, Dubai, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing from the University of Central England, Birmingham, and an MA in Advertising and Marketing from the University of Leeds.