Evelyn Okere
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Evelyn Uyai Okere is a Nigerian businesswoman, publisher, fashion designer and health/weight management expert.
She is the Managing Director/CEO of St. Eve Concepts,[1] a health/weight management outfit and also the Publisher of St. Eve Magazine, a health, beauty and fashion publication. Okere is the Creative Director of Rose di Omimi, a clothing line based in Lagos but with a global focus. She is also the organizer of the St. Eve West African Fashion Week, a yearly event that brings together fashion designers and fashion enthusiasts from, not only West Africa, but also all over the world.
Early life
Okere grew up in Lagos state where she attended Our Lady of Apostles Private School Yaba and Methodist Girls High School Sabo Yaba before proceeding to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu state where she studied History. She graduated from UNN in 1999.
Business career
Okere's banking career kicked off when she was still in the University. During one of the long industrial strikes that beset Nigeria’s educational sector in the nineties, the young undergraduate took up a banking job with Zenith Bank to ‘get busy’.[2]
She soon found out that she had no passion for the banking industry.
Upon graduation, she secured employment with Econet Nigeria, now known as Airtel gaining valuable managerial experience. After a few years with Econet Nigeria, which though lucrative but which she later admitted was not her ‘calling’ Okere broke off to start her own company.
She founded St Eve Concepts Ltd in 2006 as the first in Enzymatic Health care service in Nigeria and indeed West Africa.[3]
In August 2012, her company succeeded in bringing American born international rapper William Leonard Roberts II popularly known as Rick Ross to Lagos to entertain at the Summer Slam Fest and thus for the first time in the country brought entertainment into health.[4]
References
- ^ St. Eve Concepts. "Contact Us Page". Retrieved on 15 January 2016
- ^ Nosike, Moses. "I have passion for good health, beauty and fashion", Vanguard (Nigeria), 30 November 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ St. Eve Concepts "Profile Page"
- ^ "Nigeria: Rick Ross storms Lagos" AllAfrica.com, 21 July 2012