VIDEO: Pushing Entrepreneurial Boundaries

 Pushing Entrepreneurial Boundaries

Orikolade Adebayo Karim, also known as Kola, serves as a Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Shoreline Energy International Limited. Mr. Karim serves as a Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Shoreline Power Company Limited.

Mr. Karim has proved himself adept at building and nurturing partnerships with leading international companies that include among others, Aggreko International, Petrodel Limited, Siemens, Ericsson and Motorola. Mr. Karim’s career began at the Guardian Royal Exchange, U.K., which he joined in 1988 as a Trainee Manager shortly after graduation.

His constant thirst for knowledge has led him to attend many courses both locally and international including management courses at the prestigious Harvard Business School. He was awarded the “Up and Coming” Future Leaders award from African Investor in 2011 and the Young Global Leader award in 2008. Mr. Karim holds M.B.A. from the University of Leicester, UK in 2007 and also graduated from City University London with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Law in 1987.