Sandra Iyawa Somtochukwu

Ms. Iyawa is a highly experienced chartered accountant with vast Pan– African experience in the public and private sectors.. Her key skills are communications solutions, content creation, project management, change management, disaster recovery / risk and impact analysis, digital marketing, customer journey experience, gap analysis, business process re- engineering, business strategy, branding, and corporate re-imagining. She is the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of Times Multimedia ltd, where she led on content strategy, signed partnerships with CNNI, PWc and Microsoft, developed brand partnerships, public relations, marketing and communications solutions across Africa. She also led on the creative aspect of the first-ever Intra-Africa trade fair 2018 in Cairo convened by Afreximbank (CAX).

She was the former Executive Vice-Chair for Creative Africa Exchange (CAX) board and MVMO Africa. She has run projects in Rwanda, Egypt, Kenya, Ivory Coast, South Africa and Nigeria. Prior to joining Times Multimedia, she attained directorial level within the NHS (National Health Service in the United Kingdom) where she worked on the transformation of the NHS to make it more economically viable managing budgets of £150M+. Sandra has a strong flair for developing results driven campaigns. Through her superb communication skills, she has successfully gotten clients, business partners, and colleagues to buy into organizations ideas. In Nigeria, she has worked with McKinsey Nigeria around the power sector stakeholder’s forum with the Federal Ministry of Power, and also worked on the MYTO with the power distribution companies. She has a first-degree BA Hons in Accounting and Finance from North London Business school. A Fellow with the Association Certified Charted Accountants. She is currently the CEO of LI Corporate Group.