Simon Okeke
Simon Okeke also known as Simon C. Okeke was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 3rd 1988. To Chief Simon N. Okeke
(Ochendo) at the time was the CEO & Chairman of Knight Frank for Africa A multinational Real Estate Firm & Ambassador Vivian Okeke who at the time was a Nigerian Diplomat and later became the Nigerian Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia & Permanent Rep to the United Nations Vienna offices including OPEC, UNIDO & currently Representative to the Director General at the International Atomic Energy Agency at the New York UN office. Simon C. Okeke is a Nigerian American Politician, Technology & Entertainment Entrepreneur, Music, Movie & TV Show Producer & Founder of record label and Artist & Talent Management Agency Simon Sayz Productions. At the 2022 BET Hip Hop Music Awards in Atlanta, GA. Simon Okeke was the only Nigerian American Music Executive Producer that attended with his Sister famous Tik Tok Influencer with 5 million plus followers Dreaknowsbest AKA Andrea Okeke who hosted the red carpet at the bet awards and interviewed artists like Rick Ross, Chloe Bailey, Kodak Black, T.I and many more teaching them Nigerian Slangs. Simon attended Elementary school in Belgium at the Brussels English Primary School. He later on attended Corona Secondary school in Lagos Nigeria, Christ the King College Abuja, & Finished High school in 2005 at St.Mary's High School, Manhasset, New York in the same class with NBA champion winner Danny Green & Rev Run Simmons Co Founder of Def Jam Records Daughter Angela Simmons. Simon has always had an Entrepreneurial mindset and started his first business during high school organizing events for teens at major clubs in New York After high school Simon attended St.John's University where he studied Business Information Systems & while attending St.John's University met Jermaine Cole also known as J Cole, Dj Spyno Hot 97 Dj who he later planned various concerts and events including Chris Brown Concert at Webster Hall with Funk Master Flex.
Simon Started his first business in high school which was concert & event promotion/ marketing for Teen events then in college started doing bigger concerts. I remember when I attended St.John's University with artist & people Like J.Cole who at the time had not been discovered By JayZ we used to hang out at this place at St.John's University called the strip which was right by the dining hall where we started hosted events for our fellow students. A good friend of Simon that used to Dj at his events at the time was DJ Spynfo who later became a big hot 97 Dj. Some of the 1st most memorable events and concerts Simon did at the time was Chris Brown Webster hall and that was around 2005-2006 for his debut Album. Then we did Trey songs at the renowned queens's concert hall Amazura with Dj funk masterflex from hot 97 & Dj Self prince of ny who was featured love and hip hop New York. One of the big concerts we did was for Jim Jones called the black party when he launches his single balling at the time. As time progressed I delved into the Afro beats scene and partnered with Mo Hit Records at the time to do DBanj, wande coal Concerts and events with don jazzy this was a time Afro beats was not really big in the United States but we were already doing it underground. I later on left New York to attend my masters georgetown university and while doing that continued my side hustle of doing concerts including with artists davido, dj tunez, Maleek berry at Made in America in Philly, Yemi alade at Howard Theatre & burna boy at the Fillmore . Some where in partnership with a long time family friend of mine Osita Ugeh also known as Duke Conceptz. While at Georgetown Simon was able to do a Management consulting leadership program with Deloitte and build more on my corporate experience and opened my eyes to supply chain, technology consulting & learning how to build and grow teams.
On July 2018 Simon had helped my mother who at the time Was Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and Ambassador to Austria & Slovakia organise the Nigerian Austrian Trade & business Conference in which major Austrian companies, the Austrian development bank and chamber of commerce were present. It was there the Governor of Anambra state Appointed Simon C. Okeke Senior Special Advisor on Investments to the Anambra state Government and the board of the Anambra state investment promotion agency. Some major accomplishments Simon did for them was helping them attract an Austrian waste to energy company SeT Austria to build a waste to energy plant in the state.
After that Simon came back and continued working in management consulting and technology consulting, meanwhile Simon had started a staffing company in 2016 and had been operating since then so my friends were in the trucking business and had a big program which was a shortage of truck drivers. Simon helped them solve this problem with his staffing company and decided to jump in the trucking business since he could do something which was hard for the small fleet owners do which was recruit and retain drivers so me and my one of my co founders started Jet Star Logistics bought our first fleet of trucks and went head in, going into the the business Simon saw so many bottleknecks and that led to him using technology solve these problems in the industry and that's how Simon founded LoadzPro which graduated from world renowned Founder Institute accelerator which companies like Udemy, Esusu etc graduated from & most recently had the founding team members of Uber Freight join my board of advisors. Simon trucking & logistics app LoadzPro just launched on the apple & google play store. Some other notable facts are Simon Executive Produced a song called I know by Royal Ezenwa featuring currently trending Artist Oxlade. He also made a connection for Royal Ezenwa to make a song called Killaman featuring Artist Called Buju now known as Bnxn which was played at the pool party for current Big Brother Nigeria Season 7.
Simon is a Serial Technology Entrepreneur with experience consulting at Fortune 500 Companies like Deloitte, Adecco, Google & Most recently Red Hat a subsidiary of IBM. Simon has led various technology start up companies as a Founder & CEO/ Board Member building them from early stage to high revenue growth. Simon was also appointed to be a Special Advisor to a Governor on Investments and sat on the board of a State Government Investment promotion Agency. Simon was awarded with the Christ the King College Ambassador award for his achievements in public and political service when he was a Senior Special Advisor to the Governor of Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano. He also is a Special Advisor to a United Nations Ambassador. --
Simon Started his first business in high school which was concert & event promotion/ marketing for Teen events then in college started doing bigger concerts. I remember when I attended St.John's University with artist & people Like J.Cole who at the time had not been discovered By JayZ we used to hang out at this place at St.John's University called the strip which was right by the dining hall where we started hosted events for our fellow students. A good friend of Simon that used to Dj at his events at the time was DJ Spynfo who later became a big hot 97 Dj. Some of the 1st most memorable events and concerts Simon did at the time was Chris Brown Webster hall and that was around 2005-2006 for his debut Album. Then we did Trey songs at the renowned queens's concert hall Amazura with Dj funk masterflex from hot 97 & Dj Self prince of ny who was featured love and hip hop New York. One of the big concerts we did was for Jim Jones called the black party when he launches his single balling at the time. As time progressed I delved into the Afro beats scene and partnered with Mo Hit Records at the time to do DBanj, wande coal Concerts and events with don jazzy this was a time Afro beats was not really big in the United States but we were already doing it underground. I later on left New York to attend my masters georgetown university and while doing that continued my side hustle of doing concerts including with artists davido, dj tunez, Maleek berry at Made in America in Philly, Yemi alade at Howard Theatre & burna boy at the Fillmore . Some where in partnership with a long time family friend of mine Osita Ugeh also known as Duke Conceptz. While at Georgetown Simon was able to do a Management consulting leadership program with Deloitte and build more on my corporate experience and opened my eyes to supply chain, technology consulting & learning how to build and grow teams.
On July 2018 Simon had helped my mother who at the time Was Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and Ambassador to Austria & Slovakia organise the Nigerian Austrian Trade & business Conference in which major Austrian companies, the Austrian development bank and chamber of commerce were present. It was there the Governor of Anambra state Appointed Simon C. Okeke Senior Special Advisor on Investments to the Anambra state Government and the board of the Anambra state investment promotion agency. Some major accomplishments Simon did for them was helping them attract an Austrian waste to energy company SeT Austria to build a waste to energy plant in the state.
After that Simon came back and continued working in management consulting and technology consulting, meanwhile Simon had started a staffing company in 2016 and had been operating since then so my friends were in the trucking business and had a big program which was a shortage of truck drivers. Simon helped them solve this problem with his staffing company and decided to jump in the trucking business since he could do something which was hard for the small fleet owners do which was recruit and retain drivers so me and my one of my co founders started Jet Star Logistics bought our first fleet of trucks and went head in, going into the the business Simon saw so many bottleknecks and that led to him using technology solve these problems in the industry and that's how Simon founded LoadzPro which graduated from world renowned Founder Institute accelerator which companies like Udemy, Esusu etc graduated from & most recently had the founding team members of Uber Freight join my board of advisors. Simon trucking & logistics app LoadzPro just launched on the apple & google play store. Some other notable facts are Simon Executive Produced a song called I know by Royal Ezenwa featuring currently trending Artist Oxlade. He also made a connection for Royal Ezenwa to make a song called Killaman featuring Artist Called Buju now known as Bnxn which was played at the pool party for current Big Brother Nigeria Season 7.
Simon is a Serial Technology Entrepreneur with experience consulting at Fortune 500 Companies like Deloitte, Adecco, Google & Most recently Red Hat a subsidiary of IBM. Simon has led various technology start up companies as a Founder & CEO/ Board Member building them from early stage to high revenue growth. Simon was also appointed to be a Special Advisor to a Governor on Investments and sat on the board of a State Government Investment promotion Agency. Simon was awarded with the Christ the King College Ambassador award for his achievements in public and political service when he was a Senior Special Advisor to the Governor of Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano. He also is a Special Advisor to a United Nations Ambassador. --