The Crest Africa Awards are guided by a Board of Directors established to protect the integrity, credibility, and long-term vision of this recognition platform.
The Board’s role is to ensure that every award reflects real impact, ethical leadership, and measurable contribution to Africa’s progress. Its purpose is governance, stewardship, and institutional trust.
Strategic Oversight
The Board provides high-level guidance to the Crest Africa Awards to help the platform fulfil its pan-African mission while responsibly evolving across sectors and regions.
Governance and Accountability
The Board safeguards governance standards through clear frameworks for ethics, transparency, and responsible decision-making. This ensures that the awards operate independently and with accountability.
Integrity of Recognition
The Board upholds the principles that define who and what is recognised. It ensures honourees are selected based on demonstrable leadership, measurable outcomes, and sustained impact, rather than popularity or visibility.
Stewardship of Reputation
The Board protects the reputation of the Crest Africa Awards as a trusted recognition platform. Its presence signals seriousness and long-term institutional purpose to partners, honourees, and the wider community.
Board Chair
The Chair leads the Board, coordinates deliberations, and ensures governance responsibilities are executed with clarity and balance.
Board Member
Board members bring diverse sector experience and independent judgment. They contribute strategic insight, uphold governance standards, and help shape the platform’s future direction.
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council comprises subject matter experts who provide specialised guidance across award categories, regions, and themes relevant to the awards.
The Advisory Council supports the Board with insight and expertise. Final governance responsibility resides with the Board of Directors.
Board appointments reflect standards that align with Crest Africa’s values:
Appointments are made with care to ensure balance, independence, and credibility.
The Crest Africa Awards operate independently of political, commercial, or personal influence. The Board is committed to transparent governance practices that protect the credibility of outcomes and reinforce trust in the platform.
Seyi Ajadi is a globally minded media entrepreneur, media personality, storyteller, and brand strategist with over a decade of experience shaping narratives that resonate across cultures and markets.
She is the Founder of TAM Media and Lead Brand Strategist at the award-winning Seedar
Group, a PR and communications firm delivering strategic media visibility, brand storytelling, influencer engagement, and reputation management for individuals, startups, and established organizations. Through her work, Seyi helps brands build credibility, influence perception, and achieve sustainable global relevance.
Kwabena Anim Owusu is a global strategic and operational leader with over twelve years of experience driving industrial performance, infrastructure development, and operational transformation across Africa, North America, and Europe. His career spans engineering, management consulting, and large-scale transformation initiatives, positioning him as a respected voice in industrial modernization and sustainable economic growth.
He began his career at Weir Minerals, a global mining-equipment manufacturer, where he built strong expertise in engineering systems and industrial operations. Alongside this, he spent several years scaling Brandzone, a communications start-up, into a multi-team enterprise, delivering measurable productivity improvements and demonstrating strong entrepreneurial leadership.
Kwabena holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, an MSc in Engineering Project Management from Coventry University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. While at Columbia, he served as President of the Africa Business Club and led the Columbia Africa Conference, convening global business and policy leaders.
Currently at McKinsey & Company, Kwabena advises Fortune 500 and global industrial clients on strategy, digital transformation, and operational excellence, delivering significant financial, operational, and technology-driven impact across multiple sectors.
Olamide Omotosho is a multidisciplinary program leader with professional experience spanning technology, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and marketing communications. She is known for combining analytical rigor, human-centered thinking, and strategic execution to design scalable solutions for complex business challenges.
She currently serves as a Senior Program Manager at Amazon, where she leads initiatives that strengthen operational systems, streamline design and review processes, and improve customer-facing execution. Her work involves close collaboration with product, engineering, design, and operations teams, introducing data-driven and AI-enabled process improvements that enhance productivity and long-term program alignment.
Before transitioning fully into technology, Olamide built a strong foundation in brand and go-to-market strategy at M778NG BMC Ltd, supporting client growth through data-informed marketing and strategic planning. She is also the founder of HealthBetter Ltd, a workplace health venture focused on improving organizational wellness and employee productivity.
Olamide began her career in clinical practice as an Occupational Therapist and has received multiple recognitions for leadership and innovation, including the Skandalaris Honors in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She remains actively engaged in professional and community initiatives focused on impact, inclusion, and sustainable growth.
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