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Oke Okaro is Chief Product Officer of Reuters.
Oke leads the global product organization across Reuters, and is responsible for product strategy, product design, product development and product delivery across all lines of business.
Oke is a digital innovation leader with a unique blend of product, technology, business and operations experience from over 20 years spent driving growth and digital transformation of large content creators/distributors, and consumer-facing digital properties.
Most recently, Oke was Senior Vice President of Business Operations at The Walt Disney Company where he led Business Operations for the technology organization behind Disney’s global content supply chain and portfolio of media & entertainment brands which includes ESPN, Disney, Hulu, ABC, Lucas Film, Marvel, Pixar, and 20th Century Fox, among others.
In prior roles, Oke started, built and led the mobile business at ESPN and later at Bloomberg. He also led product management for Verizon Consumer Group.
Oke started his career as a Software Engineer for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Symbol Technologies.
Oke obtained his bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Hertfordshire, England and MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Oke holds several patents for mobile innovations.
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