Bolastic Bola

Bola Atta is the Managing Director of United Bank for Africa(UBA) Foundation. She was nominated as the Best Marketing professional in West Africa in 2017. She was also on the list of the 40 top Nigerians under 40 in 2008 and celebrated as one of the 100 most influential women in Nigeria in March 2015. A graduate of Economics with an M.B.A majoring in Marketing, she has almost 30 years of experience in diverse fields ranging from Banking, Business, Communications, Publishing, Entertainment, and the Media. Approximately 20 out of her experience have been in high-level management and entrepreneurship, enabling her to gain advanced knowledge in each of these varied fields of work.

She has worked with government agencies both in Nigeria and South Africa using her expertise in public relations and increasing her wide network within Africa. She made a mark in the Media industry on the African continent as one of the most sought after editors in West Africa and was featured on CNN’s Market Place Africa in March 2010 in a segment on African Fashion..

She is our Woman of Fortune this week and wishes you a Bolastic Week