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The team behind the narrative

The strength of Gatewood is the people.

Strategists, writers, media buyers, producers and analysts, working as one team. We are small enough to know your brief by heart and seasoned enough to have seen your problem before. You will know every name on your account.

Leadership

Leadership

  • Nkem Ukwa

    Nkem Ukwa

    Managing Partner

    Builds the vision, then insists on the evidence.

  • Daniella Ukwa

    Daniella Ukwa

    Partner, Communications

The team
  • Bishop Itodo

    Bishop Itodo

    Head of Media

    Knows the rate card better than the rate card does.

  • Ella Okoh

    Ella Okoh

    Business Development Manager

    The first person you meet, and the last one who lets a good idea go cold.

  • Engo Onwuru

    Engo Onwuru

    Project Manager

    Turns a brilliant plan into a Tuesday deadline that actually happens.

Your account

How the team works for you.

Every client gets a dedicated account team: a partner who owns the relationship, a strategist who owns the narrative, a project manager who owns the calendar, and specialists in media, content and reporting. One team. One weekly rhythm. No handoffs you have to manage.

The Gatewood team at work
The Gatewood team
Our vision

“We want to be the team behind the stories that Africa's most important organizations tell about themselves, and to make the world lean in and listen. We bridge ambitious vision and measurable reality, and we enjoy it more than is probably professional.”

Nkem Ukwa, Managing Partner
Values

Values, in plain words.

Evidence first
We measure before we recommend, and we report after we deliver
Plain speaking
Clear words, honest numbers, no jargon fog
Discretion
What you tell us stays with us
Craft
Good ideas deserve good execution

Meet the people who will pick up your phone.