Company: FITC
Company Description: FITC serves as a think-tank for generating insights and innovative solutions to address the challenges facing the Financial Services Sector, through technology-driven capacity building and advisory solutions, FITC equips industry talents for optimum performance. Our culture of excellence binds our people together with shared purpose and values that define and reflects in everything we do.
Nomination Category: Thought Leadership Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Thought Leader of The Year - Government or Non-Profit
 Nomination Title: Chizor Malize, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer
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- If you are providing written answers to the questions for this category, you must answer this first question: Briefly describe the nominated individual: history and past performance (up to 200 words):
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Chizor Malize is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of FITC. She has led various strategic and transformational projects in the financial services sector, spanning strategy, product marketing, electronic banking, retail, wholesale, private banking and brand repositioning. She launched and managed several Nigerian financial institutions in 8 African countries and the United Kingdom.
She is a recipient of Marketing and Leadership awards. She won the award for Marketing Personality of the year 2016 and the African Leadership Excellence Award 2017. She was recently nominated by REBRAND™ USA, as a Jury Board member on the REBRAND 100® Global Awards Board, the only member from Africa, amongst the world’s top global business leaders. She sits on the Executive Council of Women in Management, Business and Public service (WIMBIZ), a non-profit organization, that has impacted over 100,000 women.
For over three years, Chizor Malize has demonstrated great inspiration leading FITC. Her drive, resilience, and agility have led to results within the shortest time.
She is a visionary leader that continuously seeks innovation to maintain FITC’s position as the market leader in the knowledge space. She continues to think ahead of the market and develop value-adding solutions that set FITC apart from industry players.
- If you are providing written answers to the questions for this category, you must answer this second question: Outline the nominee's thought leadership achievements since 1 January 2020 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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In line with the organization’s vision to be a world-class innovation-led and technology-driven knowledge organization, providing innovative knowledge solutions and programmes creatively designed to develop and strengthen resources for the Nigerian Financial Services Sector, Chizor had leveraged thought leadership to position FITC as a technology consulting firm and in the following areas:
- Over 100% increase in invitations to speak on technology-related topics across several industries and platforms
- Over 100% increase in consulting briefs to FITC
- The birth of FITC ThinkNovation Conference on Cybersecurity
- Embedding digital technology ecosystems in the process of visioning and strategy development to strengthen policies and frameworks by government agencies
- The assessment or overhauling of technology infrastructure, to ensure an alignment of policies with Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) goals by clients
- The embrace of technology as the enabler for good governance by clients
- The use of digital technology led strategies and ecosystems to strengthen policies and frameworks for public sector accountability boosts transparency and enhances positive social change by govt agencies
- The birth of FITC digital conferences which attracts participant from across the world
- Digitization of FITC learning platforms leveraging technology
- The embrace of an ecosystem that supports research, development, and innovation, integrated with effective frameworks of governance is important in the achievement of national and SDG goals by clients (government agencies)
- If you are providing written answers to the questions for this category, you must answer this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the nominee's past performance (up to 250 words):
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The current market perception and positioning of FITC is significantly and directly related to Chizor’s consistent advocacy and gospel on Technology and how it can be leveraged to help organizations as well as government agencies improve their performance and increase growth. Her thought leadership activities has impacted the financial services sector in Nigeria in general, and in particular, FITC in the following ways:
- Positioned FITC to be the technological advisory and consulting organization of choice with the public sector
- Facilitated the adoption of cutting-edge technology platforms for knowledge engagements for FITC as the market leader
- The execution of FITC Youth Connect Programmes; a programme targeted at youth from across Africa (consisting of the Essay, Hackathon and Future of Work programmes).
- The redesigning of FITC’s products and services leveraging technology to drive growth and sustainability.
- The birth and growth of the FITC innovative thought leadership conferences including the ThinkNnovation Cybersecurity conference and the TechnNovation Conference for the Fintechs & Financial Sectors.
- Drove 47% revenue growth from N809.1B in 2020 to N1.2B in 2021 for FITC.
- Increased visibility for FITC in the technology space via stakeholder engagement activities by over 100% since 2020,
- Ensured enterprise-wide adoption of digital work tools to drive Work from Home for FITC and the organizations that she serves.
- Increase in FITC’s global trainings on technology as it relates to several industries (in Dubai, Rwanda, Turkey & France)
- The FITC Structure Re-alignment (D4X) to become an employer of choice.
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Chizor’s thought leadership activities have made her well sought after in the tech space with increased invitations by organizations to speak on technology-related issues bordering on different issues and industries. She has attended several conferences, television, print, and digital interviews on technology.
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