Leads the ME creative team in developing and executing integrated internal and external visual communications mandates for clients in the region.

As a Creative Director leading Finsbury Glover Hering’s Middle East’s creative team in the firm’s Dubai office, Olu brings over a decade of multi-disciplinary, strategic brand development and visual communications experience across a variety of sectors to his clients.
Whether crafting compelling multi-media stories to build brand recognition, raise awareness, or humanizing complex narratives, Olu provides strategic advice and execution oversight to on brand and campaign development, engagement and visual communications.
At Finsbury Glover Hering, Olu works with government bodies, ministries and corporations across internal and external communications mandates, with a particular focus on tailored, data-driven brand and campaign creation, as well as digital user experiences. 
Prior to joining the firm, Olu founded a design studio where he worked with start-ups and SMEs in the Middle East on brand and product creation, prior and during their launch phases. At the time, he also led the brand perception and visual comms audits and advisory for The UAE Ministry of Education. Prior to that, as the Design Director at Publicis Live, Olu worked on visual communications and brand experiences for the Annual Meeting of The UAE Government, United Nations Data Forum, Abu Dhabi Media Council, World Economic Forum, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress and the APEC CEO Summit in Chile. Earlier in his career, he was involved in the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Dubai Airports and Hamad International Airport rebrands and visual communications overhauls.
A graduate of the American University in Dubai, Olu holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in visual communications.

Design Director at Publicis Live. Worked on visual communications with The UAE Government, UN, World Economic Forum, and the APEC CEO Summit in Chile

Loves philosophy, astro-physics and motor-racing. Can be found debating and musing on cosmology and quantum mechanics everywhere the opportunity arises.

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