Some times refered to as “The most Powerful Black Man In Britain”, Ken Olisa was born in Britain in 1951 to a British Mother and an Igbo father.
After studying at The prestigious Cambridge University where he studied natural sciences, he started working for what was then the High-Tech company of the time, IBM, where he rose to be Senior Vice- President. Olisa resigned this position in 1992 and founded his own highly successful company called interregnum which he ran as CEO until his retirement in 2006.
Olisa holds the record as the first black man to sit on the board of a major public company in Britain.
Amongst the many positions Kenneth Olisa has are:-
Chairman, Thames Reach
Director, Thompsom Reuters
Chairman, Shaw Trust
Director, restoration partners
Director, open text corporation (Canada)
A native of Notthingham, happily married with two daughters, Ken Olisa is a successful business man and philanthropist. He heads two different charity organisations and recently built and equiped a modern Library for his alma mater at the cost of 2 million pounds (1 Billion Naira)
In 2015, The Queen appointed him Lord Lieutenant of London.
