Lola Banjo is a dynamic, motivated and energetic business leader with a focus in Corporate Strategy.

As a Strategic Innovative Executive at Salesforce, Lola is part of a small team of leaders, strategists, design thinkers and innovators who help unlock value by ideating creative solutions to business and everyday challenges through a blend of strategy, vision, engineering, storytelling and business case development.

Previously, as a Strategy Consulting Engagement Manager at Accenture and Deloitte, Lola combined her business partnering, quantitative aptitude and problem solving abilities to help executives of top organizations prioritize and achieve strategic goals. She led major engagements across industries, with a focus on Consumer Packaged Goods. Past clients include Estee Lauder, Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola, Bacardi, Hostess, CVS, Best Buy and Bank of America.

Prior to Consulting, she was Assistant Financial Controller of L’Oreal’s NA €3.4B luxury goods division (Lancôme, Giorgio Armani, etc). Prior to that, she was a development engineer at the CPG giant, Coty, where she worked on the Marc Jacobs and Kenneth Cole brands and helped launch Sarah Jessica Parker’s premier fragrance.

She holds a B.S. in Materials Engineering w/ minors in Mathematics, Economics and Computer Science from Rutgers, a M.S. in Financial Engineering and a Grad Certificate in Risk Management from NYU, and a MBA in Strategy, Finance and Decision Sciences from Emory. She has also studied at top business schools around the world including FGV-Rio (Brazil), WHU-Koblenz (Germany) and RSM-Erasmus (Netherlands).

She has traveled to 80+ countries and is knowledgeable on the economic levers and cultural uniqueness that drives how business is conducted in various parts of the globe. Her diversified experience spans strategic, operational and tactical enterprise concerns. She welcomes each day as a new chance to make an impact and an opportunity to continuously grow as a global business leader.