Ideas House boss, Kehinde Salami, becomes EXMAN president

Kehinde Salami, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ideas House Marketing Communications Limited, has emerged the president of the Experiential Marketers Association of Nigeria (EXMAN).

He emerged the new President of the association after an election which took place during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Experiential Marketers Association of Nigeria (EXMAN) on Saturday, July 29, 2017.

Salami was previously the Association’s General Secretary was sworn in on the same day alongside other newly elected executives by his predecessor Dr. Rotimi Olaniyan at the Association’s first Awards Night which held at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos.

The association disclosing this in a release, said Salami is a marketing expert, with professional experience which spans the European and African landscape, having worked for several reputable blue chips such as British Airways LE, Heathrow Express, and Timberlands UK, while his company, Ideas House Marketing Communications Limited, was applauded as an experiential marketing company, and marketing consultant to several blue-chip companies in Lagos.

Meanwhile, Ideas House’s A&T and FMCG teams, at the inaugural award ceremony of the organisation, walked away with four (4) awards; Best consumer activation – Gold, Best trade or shopper activation (traditional trade) – Silver, Best activation of a sporting property – Bronze, Best use of truck branded installation of props in experiential marketing – Bronze

Speaking at the event, the new President, thanked everyone for their immense support and promised to keep EXMAN’s flag flying high. He commended Dr. Olaniyan and the outgoing executives for a job well done and promised to embark on forward looking initiatives such as working with financial institutions to bring about single digit lending rates for the member agencies.

EXMAN is the sectoral trade body for forward-looking experiential marketing communications agencies in Nigeria. It also serves as a co-operative of the best experiential marketing agencies in Nigeria. The association exists to support, promote and defend the interests of over 45 member agencies, with a total billing of over thirty billion naira through comprehensive core services and platforms.