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Lamide Shokunbi has a wealth of experience in project and product management. Lamide began their career at ExxonMobil as an Intern in 2012. In 2016, they joined Speedibake as a Continuous Improvement Manager, where they facilitated a value stream mapping exercise and process flow refinement that reduced process time for customer product launches by 25%, and spearheaded an initiative to eliminate pastry waste from misplaced foils which yielded an annual savings of \u00a375,000. In 2018, they began working at Nigerian Breweries Plc as an Agile Project Manager, where they served as an agile subject matter expert coaching and mentoring 4 cross-functional teams on adopting agile principles and practices. Later that same year, they joined AB Sports Nutrition as a Strategic Sourcing Manager, where they developed and executed sourcing strategies for multiple direct and indirect product categories worth a combined spend of \u00a31. 3million, and delivered \u00a3220,000 savings within 8 months from spearheading a benchmarking initiative to negotiate product pricing with existing vendors and implement the use of contracts. In 2020, they joined Eleva Group as a Project Manager, where they were responsible for end-to-end project management of a gas-to-power project valued at $110million, and reduced engineering design phase costs by 20% through a vendor benchmarking and negotiation exercise. In 2022, they began working at DIMO as a Product Manager, and at Skynet Labs as a Project Manager, where they were responsible for overseeing and executing the full project lifecycle of multiple software products contributing to the advancement of the web3 ecosystem, and refining and building scalable processes to support a team of developers in the delivery of decentralized storage and applications.

Lamide Shokunbi obtained their High School degree from St George's School, Harpenden between 2007 and 2010. They then went on to obtain a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds between 2011 and 2015. In 2017, they obtained a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification from Smallpeice Enterprises. In 2021, they obtained a PRINCE2® 2017 Foundation & Practitioner from AXELOS Global Best Practice, as well as a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) from the Scrum Alliance.