Biola Alabi is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, investor, public speaker and television host. Ms. Alabi heads Biola Alabi Media, a dynamic consultancy and production company with expertise in strategic consulting for pay entertainment, digital television, interactive television and emerging entertainment distribution platforms; they service governments, content creators, telecommunication industry, and investors in the converging media technology space.
Biola Alabi is the Executive Producer of 2017 Nollywood blockbuster and highly acclaimed movie, Banana Island Ghost (B.I.G). She is also the Executive producer of Nigeria’s no.1 food travel documentary-series “Bukas and Joints” currently airing across Africa and in the USA.
She is also the founder of “Grooming for Greatness” a leadership development and mentorship program for a new generation of African leaders. Ms. Alabi is one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes Magazine (2012), a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012) and CNBC Africa’s AABLA West African Business Woman of the Year (2013). For over five years, she was the Managing Director for M-Net Africa, part of the globally renowned Naspers Group. Prior to this, she was part of the executive team at the influential children’s television brand Sesame Street, and a member of the marketing team that launched the Korean motor vehicle corporation Daewoo, both in the USA.
An alumni of the University of Cincinnati where she graduated with a Degree in Public and Community Health, Biola Alabi has spent recent years polishing her knowledge with Executive Education Programs at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Yale University and Jackson Institute of Global Affairs. From August to December 2014, she also participated in The Yale World Fellows Flagship Program at Yale University.
As an expert in her field, Ms. Alabi has also spoken globally, some of which include- Faculty at Africa Leadership University (ALU Rwanda) in July 2017, Innovation in Television Conference (Jerusalem) in March 2017, Institute of Communications, Telecommunications and Media Forum (Brussels) in March 2014.