Kabir Shagaya
Lagos and London
Kabir Shagaya is one of the directors of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the Logistics Entrepreneur behind the Zippy Logistics company.
As a director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Kabir's role is multifaceted from negotiating contracts, closing deals, helping formulate policies and managing negotiations between the public sector, private sector, and international organizations.
Kabir's experiences in working on DFID funded projects,expertise in long-term strategic planning, building and selling a successful company in the Nigerian downstream Oil & Gas sector and his proficiency in relationship management enable him to continue to excel as one of the youngest C40 Cities directors. As a result many international organisations looking to operate in Lagos have found these competencies as well as my contact database invaluable to facilitating their operations and transition into this new market.
''I have always had a mind set of adapting and implementing business and economic theories to the African context as such my MSc in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship has equipped me to serve as a business strategy consultant in the private and public sector. Using these core competencies as a springboard, I was able to set up one of the fastest growing start up urban logistics companies in Nigeria, Zippy Logistics.''
Zippy Logistics focuses on supply chain management in Nigeria, As the President and CEO of Zippy Kabir and his team have a clearly defined vision for the business: ''our goal is to be the solution for logistics in Africa by exemplifying unity, innovation and excellence in everything we do. Hence my Nickname Mr Logistics.''
''Our goal is to create an indigenous world-class supply chain organization that provides services to the Small and Medium scale market in the area of procurement, logistics and warehousing management. We are determined to bring the growth strategies of SMEs to reality as pronounced in our motto “Partnership that works”