By Tadeniawo Collins
After serving on the board of the African Film Academy and as a film law expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Dayo Ogunyemi is set to be inaugurated as the new CEO of AMAA this year.
Ogunyemi has spent the past 20 years at the confluence of entertainment, media and technology with employment experience with Booz Allen& Hamilton’s media and technology practice, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and BMG.
In the past decade, he has also focused on the finance, media and technology landscapes in Africa, garnering experience in principal investing, consulting, financial advisory and capital raising.
Also adding to his vast credentials; he has served as one of the principal advisers to the Nigerian film industry on finance, distribution and intellectual property, including negotiating key licensing and distribution agreements. He has also formulated policy, advising the UN ECA and more than 7 African governments and regional economic communities (including the EAC and ECOWAS) on intellectual property, telecommunications, technology, e-commerce and finance.
He is a graduate of Columbia Business School where he earned an MBA and also holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School as well as an SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dayo, who is able to practice law in New York, replaces the founder and former CEO of AMAA, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe who is using using her time now to promote the cause of the people in North-Eastern parts of Nigeria. Peace is presently promoting the hashtag: #No BAGA, #we are Baga, in the hope that this will help Nigerians improve their focus on being their brothers’ keepers.
