Theresa’s journey over the last two decades is easily defined by the word “resilience.” She has continued to create imprints of resourcefulness, excellence and focus across all significant milestones of her successful career specifically over the last 18 years. She has achieved excellence as an astute salesperson retiring quota above and beyond set targets while staying true to her track record in winning new business. Theresa is passionate about transforming the approach to sales and helping businesses meet their bottom line. She has been very successful at this throughout her career.
Theresa Adeyinka is an experienced Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Channels and Customer experience professional with specific expertise in managing Enterprise & SMC businesses, cutting across English speaking Sub-Saharan African countries. Her unique ability to penetrate new markets and pioneer new/untested business models has been one of the secrets of her successes some of which are; the first Identity Management Solution deals in Nigeria as Tech Sales Rep at Oracle; closing the first Audit & DB Vault deal in the region at Oracle and closing the first Dynamics 365 deal at Microsoft Nigeria in Sub-Saharan English-speaking Africa.
She is a Zoology graduate from the prestigious University of Lagos with an MBA from the University of Calabar. Theresa developed her professional work journey working on global teams like Microsoft, IBM and Oracle Corp and Signal Alliance, a local technology organization. Thanks to her diverse background, Theresa is your go-to executive when it comes to accomplishing global plans in a way that is locally practical and beneficial to the overall business environment. She also has extensive training and certifications in Management, Sales, and Coaching from Dale Carnegie, INSEAD, the Ausso Leadership Academy (ALA), and other renowned institutions.
Theresa’s professional drive is powered by her dreams. She believes in daring the norm and executing daunting goals. Little wonder she has consistently raised the bar for herself coming from the back seat to the driver’s seat. She affirms that the impossible does not exist in her world as she continuously seeks out ways to impact the younger generation with her life learnings.
For her leisure, she prefers spending some time in her little home garden or taking a ride to her farm while listening to music. She loves travelling and watching medical TV shows. She has a great bias for cooking and dreams of running a training program where young women can learn local culinary skills and home etiquette.
