Favorite Quote: “You have it, already, within you to achieve whatever you are destined to achieve…”
Lawrence, a leading authority in Association Management and community development, is a keen leadership development enthusiast with particular focus on the person, alumni associations, rural communities/grass-roots. A firm believer in Project Nigeria.
Lawrence had successfully built, from bottom up, the alumni association of Federal Government College Ugwolawo to a leading model of what a “Better Together…” Unity alumni association should be. Besides, over the past four years, as the elected chairman of Ikara community in Edo state, he has lead the community to ensure development is brought to the community, which lacked all forms of amenities and utilities – by the building of primary school infrastructure, opening of road to two settlements in the community, engaging the local oil exploration companies towards ensuring the integrity of the environment revived and maintained, employing and engaging the youth through jobs and employment.
Lawrence, music lover and digital media enthusiast, is an industry leading specialist in the Nigerian mobile telecom space. He sets the overall direction and strategy that drives the mobile value-added services business in GenieNG and its sister company Agilent Wireless Ltd. As Executive Director he has successfully grown the company’s revenue from zero as a start-up in October 2010 to a multi-million dollar monthly revenue stream.
Lawrence’s business interests include Mobile network coverage solutions, Information System Design and Implementation, Real Estate Construction, Project management, Procurement Services.
Lawrence holds a Master’s degree in Electromechanical Engineering from Odessa National Polytechnic University, Odessa, Ukraine, as well as a Post-Graduate diploma in Telecommunications & Computer Networks from South Bank University, UK. He is an alum of the prestigious Lagos Business School’s Chief Executive Program (CEP 24).
Lawrence is happily married to Aritetsoma Wilbert, and together they are raising three (3) smart boys.