Abiola Okubanjo BSc., ACA

Abiola Okubanjo is CEO and Founder of Action On Blood, a health communication social enterprise that tackles global health inequalities and inequities by empowering underrepresented populations to participate more in health activities such as medical research, governance and donation. It develops and delivers interventions that build knowledge, improve attitudes and incite behavioural change amongst Black, Asian, ethnic minority and mixed-heritage people, specialising in blood, organ and stem cell donation. Deploying a wide range of community-engagement approaches, Action On Blood produces films and short videos, delivers comedy shows, capacity builds individuals and community groups to deliver interventions, delivers school-based science fairs, runs regional creative design competitions and operates community and corporate blood drives.

Abiola is on the Board of Directors for a number of organisations, including Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, a mental health trust. Her background in business and finance includes getting a BSc. in International Management with French at University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) and studying business at École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (L'ESSCA) in France. She has worked in Corporate Finance, Leveraged Finance, Private Equity and Hedge Funds. Abiola is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW), a Fellow of The School for Social Entrepreneurs and has a BTEC Award in Education and Training and a Level 3 Certificate in Phlebotomy.