Maduka Chidebelu-Eze

Maduka Chidebelu-Eze is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knnktor, a consulting firm that provides strategic insights, guidance, and a suite of business solutions to ventures through its KBCI platform engine and Venture Persona for business alignment.  He has served in the position for over 5 years. He also volunteers as a business mentor with North Atlanta Ventures, which is governed by MIT’s VMS, and Zane Access which prepares underserved and marginalized ventures for capital readiness.  He is also on the advisory board of Zergratran, a company that develops and manages ESG and technology-focused infrastructure projects around the world that boost the efficiency of the global shipping and transportation system. 

Prior to this, he was the Senior Business Program Management Lead at Verizon Connect from January 2016 to January 2018, with a responsibility for worldwide OnStar connections and business management of strategic connectivity partnerships.  From 2002 to 2015, He was Program Management Lead at Nokia/Alcatel Lucent responsible for Sprint’s and Verizon’s Network Transformation, with humble beginnings as a switch engineer at Lucent Technologies.  He holds an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory, MS in Mechanical Engineering course work from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BS in Mechanical and Electrical engineering from Oral Roberts University with a couple of NASA published papers.

Favorite Hobby: A staff coach at United Futbol Academy and enjoys traveling, tennis and does the occasional acting and singing.

Favorite Sports Team: A supporter of The Arsenal Football Club

Favorite Music Artist: Enjoys a variety of music and genres from different eras but particularly enjoys the music of Fred Hammond and Maxwell.

Skill Set: Business Development, General Management, Operations, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Startups, Academic Research, Product Development