Profile

Two decades supporting corporate clients to shape their real estate portfolio strategy, define the programme and project objectives that flow from it, and build and lead the teams that deliver.

I’m a corporate workplace project delivery specialist working from strategy to handover. My work spans EMEA, with the deepest roots in the UK, the Gulf and Sub-Saharan Africa: headquarters programmes for Google, JP Morgan Chase and MongoDB, the Four Seasons hotel in Lagos, and the branch networks that built out Nigeria’s financial infrastructure. Today I lead pre-construction delivery of Qiddiya Investment Company’s corporate workplace portfolio in Riyadh.

An MBA from Imperial College London adds commercial and strategic depth to a career built on the ground: leading projects in frontier markets, steering multi-stakeholder environments where clients, consultants, contractors and authorities all hold a stake, and handing over CAT A/B fitouts against every baseline of time, cost, scope and quality.

Over $2B across 15 countries, anchored in the Middle East, Europe and Africa with programme reach into North America and Asia.

  • Client-side delivery
  • Workplace strategy
  • Stage-gate & CAPEX governance
  • Procurement strategy
  • CAT A/B fitouts
  • MBA, Imperial College London

Where I have sat

2025 to presentRiyadh

Qiddiya Investment CompanyCurrent

Senior Manager, Projects · Workplace Specialist

I lead pre-construction delivery of the corporate workplace portfolio, from workplace strategy and briefing through procurement, design governance and programme controls.

2022 to 2025London

CBRE, then Turner & Townsend

Programme and project management

Programme and project management for occupier clients: the Lexmark International portfolio across Europe, the MongoDB London HQ, the technical PMO for Google’s Kings Cross HQ, then the JP Morgan Chase and Marsh McLennan EMEA portfolios.

2020 to 2021Lagos

UPDC Plc

PMO and Senior Project Manager

Led the PMO for the developer’s commercial and residential portfolio, including the UAC House workplace, from brief through procurement to handover.

2018 to 2020Lagos

Profica

Project Manager

Delivered corporate fitouts for Mastercard and other multinational occupiers, and served on the project management team for the Four Seasons hotel through its design stages.

2015 to 2018Lagos

Bridge International Academies

Development Director

Led the development unit that acquired sites, designed and built the school network across Lagos, and set up the PMO that ran it.

2013 to 2015Lagos

Profica

Project Manager

Managed corporate fitouts for SAP and General Electric and served on the team delivering the Festival Mall retail development.

2012 to 2013Lagos

Broadband Technologies

Project and Operations Manager

Planned and ran installation projects and their budgets.

2008 to 2012Lagos, South East, South South

Intercontinental Bank Plc

Regional Project Manager

Ran the branch programme across the regional network, greenfield and brownfield, from property acquisition to completion, and wrote the processes it ran on.

2006 to 2008Lagos, South West, South South

United Bank for Africa

Regional Project Manager

Directed the branch rollout and upgrade programme across the region, from tender through construction to completion.

Credentials

Education

  • MBAImperial College London 2024Imperial College Black Future Leaders Ambassador
  • BSc Quantity SurveyingObafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 2004

Certification and membership

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)Project Management Institute 2009
  • Scrum Master Accredited CertificationInternational Scrum Institute 2017
  • MemberProject Management Institute

Portfolio

Sixteen programmes, in delivery order.

Sixteen programmes in the order they were delivered, tracing how the work moved from Lagos to London to Riyadh. Select a programme to read more.

Select a marker to see my work in each city.

Riyadh · Saudi Arabia

Qiddiya Portfolio

Giga-project · client-side lead

Client-side lead for QIC’s Commercial Offices portfolio within the Qiddiya giga-project, spanning interim and permanent workplace campuses.

1 programme

Directed development and project management of the branch rollout that extended United Bank for Africa’s network across the region.

Branch rollout and upgrade · Tender and adjudication · Client PM

Led the client programme delivering greenfield and brownfield branches across Intercontinental Bank’s regional network.

Greenfield and brownfield branches · Property acquisition to completion · Client PM

Managed construction of the Festival Mall retail development in Lagos, running the site programme across the contractor and consultant teams.

Retail development · RIBA Stage 5 · Construction management

Managed the CAT A/B fitout of SAP’s Lagos workplace from design coordination through procurement to handover.

CAT A/B fitout · RIBA Stages 1 to 6 · Project management

Delivered General Electric’s Lagos CAT A/B fitout within its time, cost, scope and quality baselines.

CAT A/B fitout · RIBA Stages 1 to 6 · Project management

Led programme delivery of the Bridge International Academies school rollout across Lagos, carrying a repeatable academy build from construction start to handover across many sites.

School network · RIBA Stages 0 to 7 · Development Director, PMO

On the project management team from RIBA Stage 1 to 4, coordinating the international design team and the procurement of the piling and main contractors, for a 125-key hospitality development with 30 serviced apartments.

Hospitality development · RIBA Stages 1 to 4 · Design team and procurement

Delivered the CAT A/B fitout of Mastercard’s West Africa headquarters in Lagos, handing over against every baseline.

CAT A/B fitout · RIBA Stages 1 to 7 · Project lead

Delivered the UAC House workplace programme in Lagos within UPDC’s commercial portfolio, from brief and procurement through to handover.

Occupier fitout in a live building · RIBA Stages 3 to 7 · Client PMO

Delivered programme management across UPDC’s commercial and residential portfolio in Lagos, including the UAC House workplace.

Commercial and residential portfolio · Refurbishment RIBA Stages 0 to 4 · Client PMO

Managed Lexmark International’s workplace programmes across Europe from London, with delivery reaching Barcelona, Diegem, Lisbon, Kolkata and Atlanta.

European workplace portfolio · Fitout, relocation, refurbishment · Programme management

Delivered the CAT A/B London HQ relocation under budget, transitioning staff with zero business disruption.

CAT A/B relocation · RIBA Stages 0 to 8 · Consultant appointments to handover

Directed the technical PMO for Google’s Kings Cross HQ through base build to tenant transition, establishing handover processes across dozens of subcontracted work packages and materially reducing handover time.

Technical PMO · Base build to tenant transition · Handover process

Led the EMEA corporate real estate portfolio across London, Copenhagen and Lagos, implementing delivery and governance frameworks across the programmes.

EMEA corporate real estate portfolio · Delivery and governance frameworks

Directed the EMEA PMO and portfolio across Real Estate, Technology and Operations programmes in the UK, Europe and Africa.

EMEA PMO · Real Estate, Technology and Operations · UK, Europe, Africa

Providing integrated programme, project and workplace specialist delivery across QIC’s Commercial Offices portfolio, from workplace strategy and briefing through procurement, design governance and programme controls.

Commercial Offices portfolio · Strategy and briefing to programme controls · Client side

Always happy to connect.

Oluwole Oke

Corporate Workplace Project Delivery Specialist · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

MBA, Imperial College London · PMP®

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