Victoria Ajayi – Group Managing Director/CEO
Victoria Ajayi is a seasoned business executive with multi-sector experience across local and international organisations garnered in, Affordable Housing, Banking, Construction & Media.
She brings with her a demonstrable track record of delivering growth, building strategic relationships, change leadership, alongside a robust market knowledge of the media landscape in Nigeria. Before switching to the media side of business, as a chartered accountant, Victoria worked in a corporate finance setting. Her extensive finance background provides her with strong commercial acumen and the ability to spot, articulate and exploit new revenue streams and business models.
With this unique perspective, she is poised to transform TVC Communications into one of the largest, privately owned TV and radio broadcaster in Africa. Victoria has a Global Executive MBA from IESE Business School, a Master’s in Financial Management from Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. and a BSc.(Hons) in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. She is also an alumnus of, executive programmes at Cambridge Judge Business School & Harvard Business School. Additionally, she is a member of the Institute of Directors and The Society for Corporate Governance, Nigeria. She has been recognised as one of Top 100 Career Women in Nigeria and one of the Top 50 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria.
Dr. Morayo Afolabi-Brown – Managing Director TVC Entertainment
Morayo Afolabi-Brown is a highly accomplished leader with expertise in high-level management, project management, problem-solving, communication, organization, implementation, and leadership. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Prowess University USA, a Masters in Marketing & Media Communications from Pan Atlantic University Lagos, and Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a minor in African Studies from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
Currently serving as Managing Director, TVC Entertainment, where she superintendents over the creation of broadcast content, live shows and production. Her extensive experience in leadership and strategy has prepared her for this new role.
She was most recently the Chief Media Consultant to American company, New Globe focused on educational services across Africa, since January 2020, Morayo has excelled in engaging high-level businesses and organizations, designing media solutions, managing governmental relationships, and leading stakeholder management, PR, and crisis management efforts. She is skilled in developing media strategies for electoral campaigns and publicity. She runs the Morayo Afolabi-Brown Foundation which caters to vulnerable members of society, through Nigeria in Diaspora interventions.
Morayo Afolabi-Brown is the covener and host of Nigeria’s number one all female breakfast show; YourView in which she has presided over 2400 episodes in the last 10yrs. She is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relation (NIPR) and a certified member of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON). She has won numerous awards, some of which are top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) and top 25 Most Influential Women In Journalism Africa (WIJA).
Stella Din-Jacob – Director of News & Editor-in-Chief
Stella Din-Jacob, Director of News and Editor-in-Chief at TVC Communications, is a trained lawyer and accomplished broadcast media professional with an illustrious career spanning 29 years.
Her journey in journalism began in 1995 at Channels Television, where she managed news production and presented two flagship programs, Diplomatic Channel and Your Rights. She also anchored news, business, and sports bulletins. Stella’s coverage of the ADC plane crash in 1996 marked a turning point in her career, propelling her into the media spotlight. Her conflict reporting from West African countries, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire, highlighted her ability to bring a human angle to news stories.
In 2002, Stella was instrumental in launching Silverbird Television. Four years later, she helped establish Gotel TV (now TVC), and during the same period, played a pivotal role at MBI, securing the Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) for Best Station of the Year. By 2012, she was appointed Managing Editor at NN24, Nigeria’s first 24-hour news station, where she revitalized its operations.
Stella returned to Silverbird Television to expand its news department and launch its 24-hour news division. In 2018, she was appointed by CBS to spearhead the repositioning of TVC News, leading to its rebranding with a focus on breaking news. Her leadership bore fruit in 2019 when TVC News won the NMMA for Best Television Station of the Year.
Throughout her career, Stella has engaged with international media platforms such as BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Vatican Radio, and Voice of America. Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, she was selected for an International Visitor Program (IVP) by the U.S. Government, which included a stint at a TV station in Dallas, Texas, and teaching at a graduate school of journalism in Denton, Texas. Earlier, she received a Mashav Scholarship from the State of Israel for her insightful coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In 2008, Stella was named first runner-up for the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship. Her outstanding contributions to journalism earned her the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence in December 2022. In May 2023, WiJ Africa recognized her as the most powerful female journalist in Nigeria. A year later, in May 2024, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of TVC News.
An avid reader and advocate for journalistic integrity, Stella is committed to upholding global broadcasting standards and mentoring the next generation of female journalists. She also dedicates her free time to humanitarian and charitable causes.
Olukunle Folarin- Director of Programmes TVC & New Media
Folarin is a producer and media practitioner with over a decade of production experience. A lawyer by profession, his experience cuts across various genres of television, while strategic content creation and execution as well as budgeting and the planning of large productions are amongst his forte. He has worked with both start-ups and established media houses.
His responsibilities include working with the CEO to deliver on the strategic and operational aspects of programming for the TVC entertainment channel.
Babajide Kolade-Otitoju – Director of Current Affairs
Babajide Kolade-Otitoju started his journalism career in 1991 as a sports writer with over 26 years of journalism experience both in the print and broadcast media.
Babajide serves as Group Head, Current & Public Affairs at TVC Communications working across documentary and special programming. He is also a senior political commentator on one of Nigeria’s most noted current affairs and political analysis television programmes which airs daily on the TVC News channel.
Marvin Arimi – General Manager MaxFM
Marvin Arimi is a creative expert with over 12 years’ experience in broadcasting, advertising and radio set up.
A “true radio heavyweight” whose skills for working with great on-air talent and commercial insight has put him out in front of industry stakeholders as one of the new age leaders in the media, advertising and entertainment sector.
Kemi Shonubi – Director, People, Culture, Experience & Operations
Kemi Shonubi is a Licensed Human Resources (HR) executive with multi-sectoral experience and a deep expertise in People management, Organizational development, and Strategic planning. She is currently the Director of People Culture Experience and Operations at TVC Communications, where she works to create an environment that positions employees to reach their fullest potential.
Gifted with interpersonal dexterity and a mastery of creating an exceedingly Great place to work, Strategic HR Professional & Consultant with over two decades of combined experience across different industries.
Kemi is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (MCIPM), the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) USA, as well as the Nigerian Institute of Training & Development (NITAD). She also is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, Nigeria, a certified Management Consultant and a member of the Forbes BLK Community.
An Alumna of the prestigious Cornell University, New York with an advanced Post Graduate Certificate in Strategic HR Management; and holds an MBA and Bachelor of Science degrees in Human Resource Management and Accounting respectively from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
She is a Board Advisor (People & Strategy Matters) for Precious Conceptions Nigeria Limited and also Tech4Her Africa.
Kemi is an avid reader and loves to write articles/stories about the workplace and life experiences which gave birth to the name and HR Storyteller Platform, oriented towards transforming the HR practice and workplace cultures with the art and power of Storytelling.
Obaniyi Akinwale – Director of Broadcast Engineering
Obaniyi Akinwale is a Corporate member of Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) and Certified Electrical Engineer by Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
A graduate of Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso with Masters of Science in Information Technology from National Open University of Nigeria and Master in Public and International Affairs from the University of Lagos.
He was previously with Telephone Cable Nigeria Ltd and was part of over 28 Kilometers of fibre optic cable to link Globacom Switching Centres in Lagos in 2004/2005 as a trainee and a stint with the defunct National Electric Power Authority.
At TVC Communications he is responsible for providing technical direction for all aspects of multi-media business and managing the group’s major infrastructure Projects.
Lemi Olalemi – Special Advisor To The CEO.
Lemi Olalemi began his career in broadcasting at Radio Lagos and Lagos Television (LTV) as a producer. He later became Director of Programmes at Channels TV (Nigeria), before acting as a technical and programming consultant for MITV and Africa Independent Television (AIT).
Lemi has also been an editorial consultant for ICNL, publishers of THE NEWS and Tempo magazines. In Britain, he worked for the Bank of New York (Europe) and after 11 years in the UK, Lemi returned to a democratic Nigeria in 2008
Festus Adewumi – Director of Internal Audit and Controls
Festus Ademola Adewumi a B.Sc., ACA, CFA, CFIP, IIA holder with over 15 years’ experience in internal auditing.
Presently, the Director Internal Auditor at TVC Communications, Festus in his capacity, examines the company’s financial transactions for accuracy and compliance with company policies, laws, and regulations. He evaluates financial and operational procedures to assure adequate internal control.
Abisola Agbaje
General Counsel – Legal and Regulatory Affairs
Abisola Agbaje is a corporate attorney, licensed in Nigeria, who graduated from the University of Lagos before attending the Nigerian Law School. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2009. LL.B, BL, ACIS (in view).
Abisola previously worked at Chief Rotimi Williams’ Chambers (CRWC), Kola Awodein & Co. and Enitan Associates.
She has spent much of her legal career representing companies and individuals in business-to-business negotiations, commercial and government contract matters, finance contracts, business counselling and formations, sports and entertainment contracts.
At TVC Communications Abisola focusses primarily on commercial contract matters with particular emphasis on media, regulatory, corporate and licensing law.
