{"id":8405,"date":"2017-01-19T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8405"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:50:21","slug":"ekong-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekong-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"EKONG, Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man agement Consultant; Busi nessman; Execut ive Direr. tor, Intact Marketing Ser vices Ltd.; LGA: Itu; Born: May 15, 1940; Pa: Chief As uquo U. Ekong (df and AJfiong Anana Ekong; Married to Mrs. Margaret EKong; Children: Mayen (18), Adam (15), Ini (12); Education: Lutheran High School, Obot [dinl, 1954-58, WASC; South West London Coli, 1965-68, B.Sc. Marketing; Univ. of Paris, France, 1971-72, M.B.A; Other Qualifications: Fellow, Chartered Institute of Marketing, London (FCIM); Fellow, Institute of Business Education; Career and Work History: Marketing Asst., British Rail, London (East), 1969-70; European Coordinator, Institute of Marketing, Paris, France, 1973-74; Marketing Manager, Conoco Ltd ., London (Central), 1975-82; Career Adviser, African Students Centre, London, 1979-82; Management Consultant, BMC Consultants, London 1979-82; Part time Lecturer, Polytechnic of Central London, 1980-82; Marketing Manager, Sunshine Batteries Ltd, Ikot Ekpene, 1984-85; Commercial Manager, Qua Steel Products Ltd ., Eket, 1986; Executive Director, Intact Marketing Services, I 978-present; Appointment and Work Related Achievements: Appointed Director, Akwa Hote ls Ltd., Uyo, I ~95-96 ; Visiting Lecturer, Univ. of Uyo; Publications: Definition of Marketing Terms, 1984; Akwa Ibom State Tourism &#8211; Prospects and Development (Unpublished); Contributed articles and papers to several newspapers and magazines; Civic and Political Activities: Pres .. Uyo Club, 1995-96; Awards\/Recognitions: Grand Patron, Nigerian Un iversities Marketing Students, Univ. of Uyo, 1993; Patron, Business\/ Marketing Students, Univ. of Uyo, 1992; Marketing Man of the Year by the Advertising Students Asscn, Univ. of Uyo. 1991 ; Professional Meinberships: Mem, British Institute of Management (MBIM) 1978: Fellow of the l\\igerian InstituteofSaies Managemcnt (FNISM). 1994: Mem and State Chairman, Nigerian Marketing Asscn; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Marketing. London; FeJlow, Institute of Business Education. London: Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian: Hobbies: Writing, Translation (French\/English). TelIDis Office: 79 Udo Umana Street, P.O. Box 800. Uyo, Tel: (085) 200772; Home: 7 Afia Etoi Street, P. O. Box 800, Uyo, Tel: (085) 202863. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,2412],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8405","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-business-person","category-management-consultant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}