Proshare, a professional research and information services practice, recently appointed Ms. Funke Medun as an Independent Director to the Board of Directors of the Company. The appointment has since been confirmed at the company’s annual general Meeting (AGM) held in May 2022.

Profile of Ms. Funke Medun

Ms. Funke Medun is the CEO of Leapworld Limited, a full-service business development support (BDS) and human resources consultancy with global alliances. She holds a first degree in Geology, an MBA from the prestigious Lagos Business School (LBS) and currently a doctoral research student. She is an accredited and World Bank trained BDS Expert Consultant. She is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and a licensed human resource practitioner (HRPL). She is an alumna of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and IESE Business School, Spain. She is also an alumna of the United States government funded exchange program academy for women entrepreneurs (AWE). She is an associate member of women in business and management (WIMBIZ) Nigeria, a business coach and mentor, and sits on the board of some organizations.

Funke had about a decade of experience with the top banks Zenith Bank plc and Guaranty Trust Bank plc before joining the consulting industry. She has committed herself to help entrepreneurs, NGOs and already established businesses perform at their best. She has a sleuth of projects that she currently works on and has helped execute in the past such as team lead for the World Bank Growth & Employment (GEM) project; United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) HP-LIFE project; Bank Of Industry (BOI) Nigeria BDSP; Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) project BDSP & Capacity Building; Women Entrepreneurship & Leadership for Africa (WELA) program, amongst others.

Funke is a multi-talented scholar, professional, and an author, who is passionate about community work, serving on projects and implementing training programs in different countries for organizations such as the World Bank GEM project, Bank of Industry (BOI) Nigeria, Algorithm Media, Etiquette Consortium, Diamond Bank Plc, Fidelity Bank Plc, Channels Television, Lekki Free Trade Development Company, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, Statoil, Konga On-line Shopping Limited, AnkorPoint Integrated Services Limited, Lekki Co-operative & Multi-Purpose Society Limited, Wattcon, AOS Orwell Ltd (Oil & Gas), Landsmanholdings, Oceanic Bank (now Ecobank), Access Bank Plc, Polybonde Group, Cornerstone Mortgage Bank, RoyalTrips; Nigerian National Assembly, Lagos State Eko Education Project, and Leke Sanni & Associates,  amongst others. 

She has been at the forefront of MSME development, advocacy, conceptualized and project managed an annual United Nations MSMEs Day Celebration Program partnering with key stakeholders in Nigeria since 2018.

Funke is also very active in community development. She is a volunteer financial education trainer with the “financial literacy for all” project, Nigeria (in Collaboration with CommonWealth UK) and a life-skills trainer with the Lagos Eko Education project (World Bank funded). She was also a mentor under the Guaranty Trust Bank plc staff mentoring scheme and a peer educator with the Health & Life Planning club (Action Health Incorporated, Lagos). 

Speaking on the appointment, Mr. Olufemi AWOYEMI mni, stated “we are delighted to have Ms. Medun on board considering her broad range of experience in management consulting, people and performance management, governance, change management, succession planning, training, HR consulting and corporate transformation, which we believe will be of tremendous value to Proshare; as we continue with our digital transformation drive aimed at delivering greater value to our clients, subscribers, and consumers.”  

Read: Other members of Proshare’s Board of Directors