Chin Okeke
Chinedu Chin' Okeke' is a Nigerian-British entertainment entrepreneur and music executive. He is the founder of The Eclipse Group and co-founder of The Gidi Culture Festival''. In 2020, he joined Universal Music Group as the General Manager for Nigeria and was later appointed as the Managing Director in 2021.
Career
After his university education, Chin undertook business training at two Fortune 500 companies; Credit Suisse in New York and the AP Moller Maersk Group in Shanghai and Lagos.In 2010, Chin founded the Eclipse Brand Agency, a communications company.
In 2013, he founded Eclipse Live, a live entertainment company. Later on, he co-founded alongside Oriteme Banigo, The Gidi Culture Festival, one of the largest Afrobeats music festivals in West Africa. In 2017, Eclipse Live collaborated with Red Bull for the execution of the Red Bull Music Academy in Lagos.
In 2018, he was listed among one of YNaija's Top 10 in entertainment. In 2019, he was one of the selected delegates for The [Great Escape Festival|The Great Escape], an annual music festival in Brighton, by the British Council. In 2020, he was appointed as the General manager of the Universal Music Group, Nigeria, and later became the Managing Director of West Africa in 2021. That same year, he was mentioned among the Billboard's Power Players. At the end of 2021, he left the Universal Music Group and returned to the executive board of Eclipse.
Chin is also one of the founding trustees of the ECHO Music and Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development of the creative sector in Africa.