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= MICHAEL IKPOKI =

Michael Ikpoki (Born 30th August, 1969) is a former Chief Executive Officer for MTN Nigeria, the number one telecommunications company in Nigeria from South Africa.

Early Life & Childhood
Michael Ikpoki is born to Late Chief David Ikpoki (retired Shell Management staff, former Commissioner in Rivers state 1975-1979) and Mrs. Eva Ikpoki (Retired Educationist, Guidance counselor & Church leader) and is from Ogboloma Village in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria.

Ikpoki enjoyed a great childhood with his strict Christian parents as the first of eight (8) children and lived in the cosmopolitan cities (Port Harcourt & Lagos).

Michael started her schooling at Port Harcourt Primary School, and continued to Federal Government College, Port Harcourt (between 1980 and 1985) where he graduated Best Student in Literature-in -English.

At 17 years of age, Ikpoki gained admission to the Rivers State University of Science and Technology to study Law. He graduated with an LLB in 1990 and proceeded to gain a BL degree in the Nigeria Law School on the 11th of December, 1991.

-He spent National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) & three years post NYSC (1992 to 1995) in a private legal practices (Serena David Dokubo & Co (Port-Harcourt) and JB Daudu & Co (Kaduna & Zaria)) before joining the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in 1995.

Family
Michael Ikpoki is married to Nina Ihuoma Ikpoki (Née Masi) and is blessed with four children: Michelle (12), David (10), Elizabeth (7) and Daniel (3). His wife, Nina, is a businesswoman who runs a confectionery business.

Career
Ikpoki started his career as Industry Regulatory in the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) though he was a lawyer by profession. he then moved to MTN Nigeria as their Regulatory Advisor in August 2001 where he stayed for 2 years and 8 months before ascending as the General Manager of Regulatory Affairs in April 2004.

According to his website, he was promoted to the General Manager for the Northern Region S&D in March of 2005. Thereafter, became the Sales & distribution executive (Sales Director) in August 2007 where he was transformed the operations to fill FMCG Regional operation. thereby, creating regional distribution models for the Telecom Channel distributions and enhance value creation and an increase in Sales.

In 2011, Ikpoki became the CEO of MTN Ghana (the 4th largest Telco in the MTN Group) where he lead the company to retain its position as the market leader and strengthening the MTN Ghana competitive position with a 21% revenue growth in 2012. Ikpoki then became the CEO of MTN Nigeria (the largest subsidiary in the MTN Group) in 2013.

Ikpoki then joined Proscend Partners in 2015 as the Chief Executive Officer.