Abiola Taiwo

Abiola Taiwo

Fiber Project Director
Abiola Taiwo, is an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Professional with over 20years experience in the industry. He has been involved various aspects of technology project ranges from planning, integration and deployment projects, with exposures cutting across Product/Business Developments, Technology Capacity Management, Strategy, User Acceptance & Commissioning, Operations & Maintenance, Vendor Management and Outsourcing.

He was until recently Managing Director of EM Towers Ltd. A startup Towerco and infrastructure sharing company. Prior to that, he was at IHS Nigeria (a multinational Towerco Company) as the Head, Quality Assurance/Network Systems) unit where he was responsible for the NOC system integration and the Technology Group, process automation. Before moving to IHS Nigeria, he was one of the pioneer staff of Etisalat Nigeria (now 9Mobile) responsible for coordinating the startup operations and structural team setup. He left 9Mobile Nigeria as the Head, Network Operations Centre (NOC), where he supervised the modernization and delivery of their new state of the art NOC in Abuja.

He studied Electrical/Electronic Engineering at Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos. Then Lagos State University, Ojo for his Post Graduate Diploma in Electronics & Computer Engineering and also Master in Business Administration (MBA). He is a member of Nigeria Society of Engineers (MNSE), and also a Registered Engineer, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and Fellow of the Institute of Professional Managers and Administrators of Nigeria -IPMA, He has attended several technical and management trainings, workshop and products launch both local and international. Some of which include Digital Bridge, APC, Hp, Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel, Nokia and Nera Networks/Ceragon trainings in the UK, Europe and China. He also attended trainings on BCP/DR, HSE, Leadership and Processes.

Well vast in multi-OEMs, Multi vendors, Managed Services, both in- & outsourcing project environments, Turnkey Project Management and Site Build and many more. He is currently Director of Projects at Centdoor Limited.