Maurice Ugwonoh

Maurice is a multiple international award wining Creative Director, Copywriter, Affiliate Chartered Marketer with a strong passion for brand management, a deft understanding of marketing and marketing communications strategies and a thirst for digital marketing.

Maurice brings a rich experience spanning over a decade of nurturing Nigeria and Africa's biggest brands like Closeup, Lipton & Knorr for Unilever, Always & Bonux for Proctor & Gamble, Cadbury, South African Airways, American Airways, British American Tobacco, Glo, MTN, Airtel and more. These brand journeys have taken Maurice across Experiential Marketing agencies like Grey2 (FKG2), Draft FCB Impact and Advertising agencies like JWT Nigeria, Leoburnet Nigeria, DDB Lagos and Noah's Ark.

Having worked in varied teams, Maurice has won significant Global and Local awards for agency and country. These include the first ever international award for an advertising company in Nigeria with silver at the 2012 Epica Awards for Nike Foundation Girl Hub print campaign speechless. Other awards include Emerald and Silver at the 2013 African Cristal awards For Girl hub "speechless" and Durex print campaign called "standing erect" respectively, a Silver at the 2013 Loeries awards for Girl Hub speechless and numerous Gold, Silver and Bronze awards at the Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival 2012 and many more

Maurice is a skilled marketer with certificates in Marketing Communication and Consumer Behaviour from the Edinburgh Business School, Herriot Watts Scottland UK, where he pursues a Masters degree in Marketing. Maurice is also an Affiliate Member at the Charterd Institute of Marketing UK with a Diploma in Digital Marketing and strategic marketing. Maurice is passionate about expanding Social Media, SEO and Mobile and Content Creative marketing.

Maurice spends his leisure time writing poetry and a series of soon to be published novels, graphic novels, movies and traveling.