She joined the CcHub technology innovation center in 2021 as co-founder and managing partner of Creative Economy Practice. Her appointment as head of the center is the result of her leadership in these previous positions.

Ojoma Ochai (photo), a Nigerian creative economy expert with a specialization diploma in Network Engineering from the NIIT Abuja Centre in 2005, has assumed the role of Managing Director at Co-creation Hub (CcHub). Her appointment was officially announced on Thursday, December 14, 2023.

Taking over as Managing director from co-founder Bosun Tidjani, who currently serves as Nigeria's Minister of Communication, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Ojoma Ochai is now responsible for overseeing the strategy and team of Co-creation Hub Africa. This includes the management of CcHub Design Lab Rwanda, CcHub Namibia, CcHub Syndicate, Creative Economy Practice at CcHub, and iHub Kenya.

"I am proud of the work that CcHUB has achieved since 2010 and it is a great honor of my life to take a deeper step into CcHUB as its Managing Director. I stand on the shoulders of giants Dr. Bosun Tijani, Femi Longe, and Adetunji Eleso and previous leaders and managers at CcHUB who have built a phenomenal African organization that I am now truly honored to lead,"  she posted on her LinkedIn page. 

Before this appointment, the Nigerian was the Managing Partner of Creative Economy Practice, a CcHub unit dedicated to stimulating innovation and the application of technology for the development of the creative economy in Africa.

Ojoma Ochai sits on several boards, including ₿trust, backed by tech and creative industry leaders Jack Dorsey and Jay Z to support the development of Bitcoin Open Source in the Global South. She has also been a member of the UNESCO Expert Group since 2012. Between 2010 and 2021, she worked for the British Council. There, she successively held the positions of Director of Arts in Nigeria (2010-2017) and East Africa (2017-2018), Director of Programmes in the Sub-Saharan Africa region (2018-2020) and Regional Director of Programmes for the Arts and Creative Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020-2021).

For her work and dedication, Ojoma Ochai was named, by Y Naija Magazine, as one of the 10 most influential people under 40 in arts and culture in Nigeria in 2014, as well as one of the 100 most influential Nigerians and 100 most inspiring women in Nigeria in 2015.

Melchior Koba