Still at Travelstart, Bukky soars higher

Bukky Akomolafe was recently made the Country Manager of Travelstart, Africa’s largest online travel agency. Prior to joining Travelstart, she was the Head of Marketing for Rhythm Unplugged, a Flytime produced popular Nigerian concert with headline sponsor Pepsi. Here, she created online & offline marketing campaigns for the 2015 concert featuring Trey Songz and the 2016 concert featuring Nigeria’s best performing artist. She was also responsible for sponsor client relationship management, press relations and branding.

In her position as former Commercial Manager, she led the marketing team and her responsibilities included online and offline marketing, affiliates, sales and business development with strategic partners, and she worked with the airlines to further promote their brand.

Bukky has over eight years of experience in marketing. Her training began when she moved to the United States in 2005 to attend the George Washington University in DC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Business Administration, concentration in Marketing and Finance. She then moved to New York to join Ogilvy & Mather, one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world, as an Associate in their prestigious Associates Training Program. There, she helped to launch a $2million growth, strategy and innovation consulting business by converting new business pitches into client assignments. Her client roster included BP, UBS, Blackrock, Catholic Charities and more. She later attended the Yale School of Management for her MBA where she graduated in 2014. Bukky joined Travelstart because of the company’s aim to make travel simple for customers and help to fix the travel challenges in Africa.