He was enrolled into Community Secondary School Awo Idemmili in Imo State. His stellar performances in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics earned him the title of "Prof". from admiring teachers and students. He proceeded to University of Nigeria Nsukka from whence he graduated with a first class Honours in Chemistry and joined Nigeria Breweries PLC.
He also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Wharton Business School and Unilever Four Acres Training Centre. Apart from his basic background in Chemistry and the Natural Sciences, he has amassed a panoply of knowledge and certifications in Business Strategy, Business Planning, Change Management ,Turn Around Management, Leadership, New Business Development Strategy, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Entrepreneurship Management, Negotiation and Marketing Strategy.
Within a career that spanned 26 years and five months, he progressed from Trainee Brewer 1980-1982, Shift Assistant Brewer in Training April - July 1982, Shift Brewer I/c Bottling 1982-1984, Brewer I/c Brewing 1984-1985, Technological Controller 1985-1987, Production Manager 1987-1988. From 1988 till 1989, he proceeded to Heriot Watt University Edinburgh for his MSc and coming back home, he resumed as Brewery/Senior Technical Manager 1989-1992, Sales Director 1992-1993, Food Coordination AMEG Unilever London 1993-1995, Marketing Director, Lever Brothers Ghana 1995-1997, MD/CEO Nigerian Breweries 1997-2006.
In 2006, he left the management of Nigerian Breweries PLC. He was billed to proceed to a new appointment with the Heineken Company in Germany, but he elected to stay back in Nigeria to pursue other personal business interests. He then set up the Royal Lifestyle Services Group of Companies Ltd and other strategic business units of the group like Quintessentially Nigeria, Recherché Signature Events and Gifts and Palatially, sole marketers of Angel Champagne, for which he now acts as a non Executive Director.
On Tuesday 26th June 2012, Eze Festus Odimegwu was appointed Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPopC), by President Goodluck Jonathan. In appointing Odimegwu to the head of the NPopC, the president went for a twin goal of diligence and integrity, both choices that characterize Eze Festus Odimegwu. He was the spirit behind the partnership that resulted in one of the world's biggest breweries, and which made Nigerian Breweries PLC, the most capitalized company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. His modernization programme at NB PLC, lengthened the gap between Nigerian Breweries and its competitors. An uncompromising stickler for excellence and a goal getter, Odimegwu distinguished himself as a primus inter pares within the role call of Nigerian corporate czars, serving on the boards of other companies such as Dangote Cement PLC, Union Bank of Nigeria as well as Transnational Corporation of Nigeria, as a Director.
"He is currently leading the execution of the Strategic Architecture and Operating Plans of NpopC covering Cartographic, Demographic, Vital Registration including Migration, ICT, Specialized Surveys and Census , Demographic and Biometric Population Register Experts and Population Quality Improvement based Population Policy Advocacy Teams within an extended 14 Standing Committees of 5 Strategic Managements Teams (Technical Management Team, PQI management Team, Evidence based Management Team, funding Management Team and Institutional Capacity building Management Team) of the National Population Commission for the development of the Centralised Demographic Database and Population Register NpopC Enterprise Architecture for plug and play by all data users for evidence based planning for our population quality improvement, enhanced security, accelerated national development and global competitiveness." - See more at: http://localhost/Eze/index.php/about#sthash.f7Dfkq9J.dpuf
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