Prof. Babalola, Dr. Pinder, Alhaji Sunmonu others to Speak at HMC Owerri 2023
Prof. Babalola, Dr. Pinder, Alhaji Sunmonu others to Speak at HMC Owerri 2023
Organizers of the annual Hotel Managers Conference have unveiled the speakers for the 5th edition of the annual Managers event for hotel Managers in Africa. The 2023 Conference would have 6 Guest Speakers who would be doing justice to this year’s conference theme of, ‘Performance Management; Owners & Managers Dilemma. The speakers and topics they would be speaking on at the 2 days conference are explained below.
Theme Interpretation: Professor Wasiu Babalola. Key Note Speech by Dr. Michael Pinder; What Managers do and What Owners expect. Professor Wasiu Babalola. Performance Planning for Management efficiency in today's hospitality & tourism business by Dr. Omopeju Afanu; Performance is the King and the Key Concept and Meaning from a Staff. Consultant & I nvestor's Perceptive, by Alhaji Gbenga Sunmon. Rating and Reward System towards enhancing Productivity by Benedicta Ogar and Menu Engineering simplified by Dr. Chef Eric Mekwuye.
This year's Hotel Managers Conference is the 5th Edition and will focus on the theme: Performance Management; Owners & Managers Dilemma holding on the 13th and 14th July 2023, at Fullmoon Hotel Owerri, Plot H-1 Fullmoon Avenue, by Akanchawa Road, Housing Area “C” New Owerri, Imo State. Several world-class hospitality practitioners and consultants have been lined up as speakers: 6 Guest Speakers and 10 Panelists in 2 days.
Speaking about this year’s conference, Mr. Olugbenga Sunday, Chief Convener of the conference explained that this year’s event is going to challenge both owners and mangers on how to manage the assessing and balancing and demystifying the dilemma surrounding the understanding of performance and best practices on how to manage it for the increases profitability of the organization.
Meet the Speakers
He continues, to achieve this laudable task, the HMC Organizing Team has put together globally rated hospitality and hotel performance experts to do justice to the topic and practically impact delegates at the conference.
Professor Wasiu Babalola
Professor Wasiu Babalola, FIH, ACIA; Prof/ Regional Chairman, Institute of Hospitality UK-Nigeria/ SVP, Africa for Continent Worldwide Hotel, Turkey.
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Wasiu Babalola is a Professor of Hotel Management & Tourism, Atiba University, Oyo, Nigeria; an Adjunct Professor of Tourism & Hospitality, Faculty of Environmental Designs and Management, Lead City University, lbadan, Nigeria and a Visiting Professor to the Capital City University, Kano, Nigeria. His teaching interests centre on studies in Hospitality, Tourism, Accounting & Management programmes. He is trained to conduct programme accreditation in Hospitality and
Tourism Education, Management Education and Forensic Accounting Education. He was certified in 2021 by the Global University Network for Innovation (Africa) and the African Quality Assurance Network as a Certified Accreditor for Program and Institutional Accreditation.
Apart from academic roles, Professor Babalola is involved in a number of hospitality related consultancy projects such as membership of the International Management Council of Continent Worldwide Hotels, Turkey while supporting the brands expansion into Africa.
Professor Babalola is a Rotarian and Past President of the Rotary Club of Isolo, District 9110 Nigeria.
Dr. Michael Pinder
Dr. Michael Pinder, receiver of the Prestigious Icon of Hospitality Award 2022 by the Hotel Managers Awards, is a highly accomplished and performance-driven General Manager of Ogeyi Place Hotel Port Harcourt, the oil-rich Rivers State. Dr. Pinder possesses a considerable track record in transforming underperforming hotel operations and delivering significant increases in sales and profitability, with worldwide experience.
Dr. Ponder holds a PhD in Human Resources Management Masters and Doctorate degrees from St. Thomas Becket, University of New England with a litany of several academic qualifications. Still, in spite of his academic qualifications, Dr. Pinder has always maintained that ‘it is experience not qualifications that makes a hotelier'.
In his three decades of operating at management levels, Dr. Pinder has proved himself as an adept in hotel business Management, consultancy, project management and operations, training and staff development having operated in about 11 hotels in 4 continents of the world. Dr. Michael Pinder is sought after as a key Speaker for a number of hospitality seminars held throughout Nigeria. He is married with Children.
Alhaji Sunmonu Dauud Gbenga
Rotarian Sunmonu Dauud Gbenga hails from Abeokuta south in Ogun state A graduate of Hotel and Catering Management from the Lagos State Polytechnic. He was first Youth Corp member to serve at Tastee Pot Limited, owners of Tastee Fried Chicken). He his Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations and also a pioneer Master students in public Administration with emphasis on Human Resources Management from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State. In his quest for education, he went back for a first Degree in Industrial and Labour Relations from the same University.
He started his working career at the Sheraton Lagos Hotel and Towers Ikeja where he spent ten years and worked round all the department in the food and beverage department before resigning. His quest for entrepreneurship motivated him to register his company and has since been the Managing Consultant of Complete Hospitality Services limited, focused on Hospitality, Tourism and Management Consultancy.
He is the 1st Vice President and fellow NHCI, Fellow ITPN ,FNIM, and currently the Coordinator FTAN for Lagos State. He is happily married to a wonderful and amiable wife, Khadijat and blessed with three wonders of God.
Dr. Mekwuye Eric, CHP,MCFBD,FAPCN
Dr. Chef Eric is the CEO, HoReCaBB Mentors (HM Group) / Chief Faculty, Hospitality Business School, Lagos. He is the recipient of the coveted Legacy Award Africa 2022, by the Hospitality awards Africa. Not satisfied with just Catering and Hotel Management from OOU, Nigeria, he went further to bag a degree in Hospitality management from AIU, USA. In 2021, he was conferred with Doctor of Public Administration by the London Bridge Business School.
Dr. Chef Eric Mekwuye
He has amassed a litany of awards in hospitality and management too numerous to mention in this space now.
In line with his quest and to provide great choice over professional hospitality education abroad, he and his fantastic team launched West Africa’s first state-of-the-art Hotel School - The Hospitality Business School, Lagos (HBS). The hotel school is changing hospitality education narrative across West Africa
DR. OMOPEJU AFANU
Dr. Omopeju Afanu is a serial entrepreneur, well versed in project management, finance and administration with experience in managing different scales of projects, earning her the position of Management Consultant, Managing Director and Vice President/COO of a few organizations. She is the founder of Cooperhouse Hospitality Ltd, engaged by the Lagos State Government as the sole Vocational Training Centre for its Lagos State Employability Support Program (LSESP) providing hospitality industry based training to over 300 unemployed youths with 80% placed in jobs; a project funded by the Lagos State Employability Trust Fund (LSETF), UNDP and USADF.
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She has been involved in conceptualizing and developing economic growth projects for companies and government for national development. She consults for various companies in the conceptualization, design, financing and execution of turn-key Hotel and Real Estate Development projects in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin, Abeokuta, Calabar, Obudu, Afikpo, Ilorin and Monrovia as partner, designer and creative consultant, supervising all Interior Designs, Fittings and Furnishings and Project Management. She has been able to secure funding for the set up and establishment of a boutique hotel in Lagos with a bid to scale up in the near future.
BENEDICTA G. OGAAR
Benedicta Ogar is an accomplished Hospitality Business Consultant. She is the Lead Consultant and Chief Executive Officer of CityBee Services; a Hospitality Consulting Company based in Lagos, Nigeria with a focus on offering management solutions and advisory services to new entrants and existing players in the hospitality industry, whilst providing practical and simplistic strategies, solutions and services that focus on customer satisfaction, revenue generation and long term profitability for their clients.
She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Hotel Operations Management from the Swiss Hotel Management School, a Professional Certification in Project Planning and Management from The University of Virginia, USA Credentials in Hospitality Management from the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute, alongside Certificates in Hospitality Human Resources and the Art of Concierge from the International School of Hospitality, Las Vegas, USA.
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