ZimaZee Ventures is led by:

Edinam Oton

• Mr. Oton is currently a Managing Consultant at a US Technology giant. His strengths are in project management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence, data warehousing, data governance and data strategy. Edinam has a successful background working with stakeholders to develop architecture frameworks that align strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals. The majority of his experience has been spent architecting and modeling enterprise data repositories in the financial services sector at company’s like Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Hartford Life, Axis Reinsurance, QBE Insurance, UBS and GE. Edinam has facilitated JAD sessions, collected business requirements and worked with business analysts and users to translate business needs into logical and physical data structures. Edinam has served as Project Lead for Meta Data and Data Governance, working with senior executives to gain consensus on Reference Data strategy and stewardship. He has built credibility, established rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels.

Imoh R. Oton

• Imoh Oton’s specialty is Sales and Marketing. He worked for Time Warner for 12 years. Currently focused in the Insurance industry.

Atim Annette Oton

• Nigerian-born, U.S. and British educated architectural designer, Atim Annette Oton is a designer, visionary thinker, cultural writer, culture editor, magazine publisher and entrepreneur in the retail and design sectors. She is the co-Founder of Black Design News Network, a news bureau, online magazine, digital library and ‘workspace’ hub for black designers in Architecture, Interiors, Industrial, Product, Graphic and Fashion Design. She is the co-owner of Calabar Imports in Brooklyn, New York. In 2009, she stepped down from her role as the Associate Chair of Product Design at Parsons School of Design to concentrate on creating a bi-monthly lifestyle publication about black Brooklyn home décor, fashion, culture, and lifestyle, Calabar Magazine and to open ZimaZee, a store in Lagos, Nigeria. Atim was born in Calabar, Nigeria where she spent her formative years before coming to the US to study architecture at the City College of New York in Harlem under the influential black architect Max Bond (who she later worked for) and the Architectural Association Graduate School in London, England. She returned to New York in 1994 to work with the architecture firm, Davis, Brody, Bond Architects and various other firms in New York.

Heloise A. Oton

• Heloise Oton is the co-owner of Calabar Imports. An educator and entrepreneur, she ran Apcon, a printing and publishing company in Calabar, Nigeria.

Other Key Leadership Partners

Appeh Auta

• One of  the key contact person based in Lagos, Nigeria for ZimaZee Ventures. He is Head Business Development and Chief Operating Officer for Alpine Investments. A Commodities Trading Expert who has a deep understanding of Trade Finance and has done negotiations with Multilateral organizations. He is a highly skilled Marketing and Sales Executive. He has a MBA from Stanford University.

Barrister Innocent Echendu

• Barrister Innocent Echendu is the company’s barrister/lawyer.