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Oke Okaro

Oke Okaro

General Manager and Global Head of Mobile, Multimedia, Bloomberg L.P., US

Oke Okaro serves as the General Manager and Global Head of Mobile for Bloomberg. He is responsible for setting the vision and strategy of Bloomberg’s mobile business and managing the day to day operations including P&L, product development and strategic partnerships. Okaro reports to Multimedia CEO Andy Lack.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Okaro served as Vice President of Mobile at ESPN where he spent six years building ESPN's mobile business having joined in 2004 as the third member of ESPN's mobile group.  Under Okaro's leadership, ESPN became the leader in mobile sports with its award winning mobile products including the number one mobile website, alerts service, iPhone app and video service for mobile sports.
Prior to ESPN, Okaro worked as a product/business development consultant at Riverview Ventures, a business and product development consulting firm. Previously, he worked as a strategy consultant in the media and telecoms practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a senior software engineer developing fixed income derivatives trading systems at RBS Greenwich Capital. Okaro started his career working for Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola) as a software engineer programming wireless warehouse automation systems.
Okaro received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire, England.

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