Professor Jimi Ogunnusi holds a Post graduate diploma in Management studies and a Masters degree in Management and Organizational learning from the University of West of England. He is also a member of the Chartered Management Institute and Institute of Directors respectively. He has over fifteen years of consultancy experience securing competitive advantage and increased profitability for his clients and as a consequence, has maintained long-term business relationships with many clients. He also has extensive experience within sales and retail management, telecommunications, different financial service organization and the automotive industry.

Mr. Jimi is the founder and Managing Director of BQM Consulting limited and Moto-Supreme Global Limited all in Nigeria and the UK. He is also a visiting lecturer, Bristol Business School, University of West England and management consultant to Prince's Trust also in the UK. He has the vehicle, vision and passion to ensure that your change journey is a pleasurable one, and that you reach your destination regardless of the terrain.

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Professor Sahalu B. Junaidu, B.Sc. (ABU), M.Sc. (London), PhD. (Scotland), MACM, MIEEE is a professor of computer science and the current Director of Iya Abubakar Computer Center, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He had studied and worked overseas for the last 18 years until he joined ABU in june 2008. He has conducted training programs, workshops, and taught courses on various areas including Java program, C/C++, web application development at pre-degree, degree and postgraduate levels.

 

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Professor Steven Young is a professor of Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University, UK and his research interests span a range of topics at the interface between financial reporting and finance including corporate payout policy, corporate governance and financial report quality. He has published a large number of articles in leading academic journals. In addition to his departmental duties, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and the European Accounting Review and a former Associate Editor of the British Accounting Review.

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Professor Steve Bradley (Associate Dean for Postgraduate Teaching) is a specialist in Education Economics and a lecturer in one of the largest departments (Economics). In particular he focuses his work on economics of higher education, including the investigation of the effects of quasi-market forces in higher education, and the educational gender gap.

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Dr. Didier Soopramanien is a lecturer in management science and joined the department in 2002 after completing a PhD in Economics at Lancaster University. His research and teaching interest are in the area of applied marketing analysis and modeling. His research has appeared in peer reviewed journals such as Applied Economics, Telecommunications Policy and International Journal Retail and Distribution Management.

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Dr. Paul Coulton (Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Director of studies) has over 15 years’ research and development experience in mobile systems and applications. Paul has published extensively in mobile, both in terms of academic publications and a book on S60 programming. His research is internationally recognized in this area and he was selected as one of 50 most talented mobile developers worldwide from a community of over 2 million to be a founding Nokia champion in 2006, and was reselected in 2007 and 2008.

Paul is the leader of Mobile Experiences group as part of the Forum Nokia Innovation Network, which includes universities from around the world. The main focus of his current research surrounds innovative mobile software with a particular emphasis on mobile entertainment, such as games. Many of the research projects encompass novel uses of the latest technologies such as RFID/NRC, VoIP, cameras, and 3-D accelerometers in mobile phones and his projects have won a number of awards for innovation.