Adim Isiakpona
| Adim Isiakpona | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adim I. Isiakpona Nigeria |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Nigerian |
| 🏫 Education | Delta State University University of Liverpool Northwestern University (Kellogg) Quantic School of Business and Technology |
| 💼 Occupation |
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| 📆 Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Co-founder and Group CEO of The People Company; co-founder of Capital Film Productions |
| 🌐 Website | adimisiakpona |
Adim Isiakpona is a Nigerian business executive, film producer and investor based in Lagos. He is the co-founder and Group CEO of The People Company, a brand, marketing and cultural infrastructure company, and co-founder of Capital Film Productions, a Nigerian film production and finance company.[1][2]
Early life and education
Isiakpona is a graduate of Delta State University, where he earned a BA in Mass Communication (2002–2006). He subsequently completed a postgraduate program in global marketing at the University of Liverpool (2011–2014), a professional diploma at the Digital Marketing Institute in London (2013), executive marketing studies at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management (2016), the MCIM professional qualification with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (2017), and an Executive MBA with distinction from Quantic School of Business and Technology (2020–2021).[3]
Career
Early career in brand marketing
Isiakpona began his career in 2007 as Regional Brand Marketing Manager for West Africa at Hewlett-Packard, leading the company's first in-market brand marketing role for the region. In 2012 he moved to Intel as Regional Brand Marketing Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, where over six years he deployed over thirty million US dollars in brand investment across six priority markets and received the Intel EMEA Recognition Award in 2013.[3]
In 2018 Isiakpona joined Google as Head of Sales for West Africa, a position he held until 2022. During his tenure he closed twenty-three million US dollars in advertising revenue in 2020, led 45% year-on-year growth in 2021 and 66% in 2022, and launched Google's Kick-Start program, which scaled from three million to twenty million US dollars in a single year. He received Google's Global Recognition Award and was named an Exceptional Talent Honouree.[4][5]
KingMakers / BetKing
In April 2022, Isiakpona was appointed Chief Operating Officer of KingMakers, the technology company behind the BetKing sports betting brand in Nigeria. In that role he owned retention, CRM and customer experience and was reported to have lifted sustained customer retention from 35 percent to the 70–85 percent range while delivering 35 percent year-on-year revenue growth. He held the position until August 2023.[2][6]
The People Company
In 2023 Isiakpona co-founded The People Company with Ayodeji Razaq. Headquartered in Lagos, the company is the operating brand of The People Company Group and houses four businesses: Riquesa (experience design and events production), Duolibra (digital marketing and influencer engagement), Flipside Marketing (creative production and design), and Solv (a freelance talent platform for creative, marketing and hospitality work).[3]
In April 2026, Isiakpona contributed an opinion column on people-first leadership to The Guardian Nigeria.[7]
Capital Film Productions
Isiakpona co-founded Capital Film Productions in March 2020 with Hamzat Kassim, where he serves as Co-Founder and Lead Creative. The company's Fund I closed and was fully realised, deploying 150.5 million naira against 225.1 million naira in returns, a 49 percent return on deployed capital.<ref name="techcabal-fund">{{cite web |url=https://techcabal.com/2023/10/24/capital-film-productions-launches/ |title=Capital Films launches ₦500M fund after G
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- ↑ "Adim Isiakpona Joins Harvard Scholars and Global Leaders at the 2025 Forty Under 40 Global Awards". Pulse Nigeria. 2025-05-21. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "KingMakers appoint Adim Isiakpona as BetKing COO for Nigeria". The Guardian. 2022-04. Retrieved 2026-04-30. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Adim Isiakpona — Founder, Operator, Brand Builder". Retrieved 2026-04-30.
- ↑ "Google Shopping ads to launch in Nigeria in the coming weeks". Techpoint Africa. 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
- ↑ "Google set to battle Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for share of Nigeria's digital ads market". Ripples Nigeria. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
- ↑ "KingMakers appoints Adim Isiakpona COO for BetKing Nigeria". Vanguard. 2022-04. Retrieved 2026-04-30. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Leadership lessons from scaling people-first agencies across Africa". The Guardian Nigeria. 2026-04-28. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
