Bola Atta

Bola Atta was nominated as the Best Marketing professional in West Africa in 2017. She was also on the list of the 40 top Nigerians under 40 in 2008 and celebrated as one of the 100 most influential women in Nigeria in March 2015. A graduate of Economics with an M.B.A majoring in Marketing, she has almost 30 years of experience in diverse fields ranging from Banking, Business, Communications, Publishing, Entertainment, and the Media. Approximately 20 out of her experience have been in high-level management and entrepreneurship, enabling her to gain advanced knowledge in each of these varied fields of work.

She has worked with government agencies both in Nigeria and South Africa using her expertise in public relations and increasing her wide network within Africa. She made a mark in the Media industry on the African continent as one of the most sought after editors in West Africa and was featured on CNN’s Market Place Africa in March 2010 in a segment on African Fashion.

She co-founded the LifeStream Charity in order to assist underprivileged children with heart problems. Over 100 children were sent to Israel from Nigeria for corrective heart surgery by the LifeStream Charity between 1997 and 2003. Atta is currently the CEO of the UBA Foundation which focuses on Education, Economic Empowerment, and the Environment, bettering the lives of people across the African continent.