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Dr. Yeni Ogunnaike
Marketing Management Fellow
Yeni Ogunnaike is the Marketing Management Part-time Fellow at Forward College’s Paris Campus.
Yeni brings a practitioner’s perspective to marketing education, drawing on almost a decade of experience at the intersection of law, strategy, and business development across Europe and Africa. She currently serves as a senior advisor at a Paris-based boutique advisory firm, where her work spans market entry, client positioning, and commercial strategy, giving her direct, real-world grounding in the marketing and growth challenges that businesses face across diverse and complex markets.
Her advisory work bridges law and business, with deep expertise in private equity-backed deal structures, engagement frameworks, and the regulatory and commercial dynamics of emerging markets. She has worked with and advised clients across the financial services, FMCG, and technology sectors, and has engaged with development finance institutions and grant frameworks. In the classroom, she translates this experience into sessions on brand strategy, consumer behaviour, digital marketing, and go-to-market thinking – helping students connect marketing theory to real business decisions.
Beyond her teaching, Yeni is a fellow of the Dream VC Lead Investor VC (LIVC) Programme, one of Africa’s most competitive venture capital training initiatives, and serves as Country Chair for France at the G100, a global platform advancing gender-balanced leadership and women’s economic empowerment. She has been recognised as part of the 100 Women in Davos community at the World Economic Forum 2025.
She holds an HEC Paris MBA (Excellence Scholar) and an LL.B in Law
