Adaobi Orekie

Business development and partnerships professional with 7+ years driving revenue growth across Nigerian banking, fintech, and telecom — building agent, merchant, and institutional partner networks from the ground up, closing partnership deals end-to-end, and running hands-on field sales and community activations to hit target. Proven track record structuring deals and growing distribution in Nigeria's semi-formal and underserved markets, with the field discipline and pipeline rigor to plan and deliver a market growth strategy fast.

AI Growth Consultant (Founder-led) at Salesvault Brand (2025-10 – Present)

Own the full deal cycle as founder — partnership proposals, negotiation, contracting, and delivery — generating $200K in attributable revenue within 6 months via a partner and client pipeline built on HubSpot, Claude, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator (120 qualified leads/month, 71% lead-to-opportunity conversion).

• Compressed roughly 1 month of manual pipeline work into 6 hours by engineering Zapier workflows connecting Claude and ChatGPT to HubSpot for partner and lead enrichment.
• Maintain CRM data integrity and 100% GDPR/NDPR-compliant partner and client records across HubSpot and Salesforce.
• Trained cross-functional teams of 2–20 on partnership prospecting, pitching, and CRM-driven pipeline management.

Regional Sales Manager at Smartcash PSB (Airtel Africa) (2023-01 – 2025-12)

Built and managed a regional agent-partner pipeline across six states, running a field-level acquisition campaign plus a reactivation push for dormant partners — direct, on-the-ground community activation.

• Diagnosed and fixed a lead-to-active-partner conversion bottleneck by redesigning qualification and follow-up sequencing, contributing to 22% revenue growth against target.
• Negotiated and managed partner relationships across banking and telecom accounts.
• Partnered with legal and compliance on consent-based partner and customer data management; built Tableau dashboards for real-time partner-performance reporting to leadership.

Trade Developer, E-Banking Products at FirstBank Nigeria (2018-09 – 2023-01)

Recruited, onboarded, and grew a merchant/agent partner base to 1,000+ active Firstmonie agents in Nigeria's semi-formal merchant economy, generating ₦60M in quarterly revenue.

• Drove product adoption among 10,000+ active users, producing ₦34M in quarterly revenue.

MSc in Public Administration – University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2017)

BSc in Public Administration – Anambra State University, Igbariam Campus