Meet The Team
Simon Tumba
Biography
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer
Simon is the CEO of SY&T Communications Limited, a strategic marketing communications expert with over 25 years experience. He’s an Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Business Administration, Zaria graduate, and started his career in journalism at the defunct Concord group where he covered the Transport and Aviation sector for Business Concord between 1989-91. In 1992, he became one of Nigeria’s youngest editors, and the founding Editor of Aviation International magazine, a pioneer aviation magazine in Nigeria.
A celebrated travel and aviation journalists, Tumba wrote for various global aviation publications, including, Airline Business (owned by the UK-based Reed Business Group), Air Finance Journal (owned by Euromoney), Commercial Aviation Report and African Airlines magazine, (now titled African Aviation) between 1990 -2003.
In recognition of his contribution to aviation journalism, he won the Best Aviation Journalist Award of British Airways at the age of 28.
In 1995, he founded SY& T Communications Ltd, a Public Relations firm, where he led the company to work for government and blue chip brands including, British Airways, Michelin, Dornier, Dangote Group, Bi-Courtney (MMA2), Qatar Airways, Aero, Oracle, Airbus, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), European Union (EU), Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Ministry of Aviation, The Presidency, FXTM Arik Air and Atlantic Aviation.
His Agency offers services in reputation management, corporate communication, crisis management, public affairs and training, amongst others.
In October 2014, he founded an online publication – www.nigeriatravelsmart.com, with focus on the travel industry covering the Nigerian market, and the African Sub-Continent. The publication has hosted four major successful conferences with international and local speakers.
Tumba has been trained by the US-based National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to handle aviation crisis and has served in various aviation related conferences in Nigeria and attended various conferences in over 21 countries.
Olayemi Tumba
Biography
Chief Operating Officer
She cut her teeth in Public Relation in the late 1980s and later held the position of Public Relations Manager, in one of Nigeria’s prime hotels, Eko Hotel & Suites between 1990 –1997.
Thereafter she quit to join the SY&T Communications Limited team as Head Strategy and Business Development. She later developed the Events Management and Etiquette training unit of the company.
She worked on all the brands handled by the company since 1995.
Titilope Aremu
Biography
Senior Accounts Manager
Titilope is a public relations expert with over six years experience working across aviation, business and markets industry. A graduate of Geography from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Titilope also holds a postgraduate diploma in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos. She joined SY&T Communications as the Social Media Manager/ Content Developer in 2017 and is currently the Senior Accounts Manager. She is an expert in digital marketing, content writing, copy writing and web content creation. She has held various administerial and leadership positions in media related outfits as a content developer and editor. She has worked on diverse accounts including FXTM, Arik Air, Aero Contractor and NCAA.
Jemima Phebe
Biography
Head, Digital Marketing
Jemima Phebe is a branding and marketing professional with focus areas in market research, content strategy, brand storytelling, lead generation, email marketing, community management and public relations. She is a first class Mass Communication graduate of Covenant University, and holds a Masters degree in Marketing from the Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.