Adiat Disu


Adiat Sade Disu is an American, digital and marketing executive and entrepreneur in the field of mass media. Her parents are Nigerian and Ghanaian.
Disu founded a multi media company called Adirée offering media, marketing, and retail sales services, with headquarters in New York. Adirée founded the annual Africa Fashion Week with off-shoots in local cities (example: Africa Fashion Week New York during New York Fashion Week in 2009.
Disu also writes for Entrepreneur magazine.

Background and education

Disu studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire before she was admitted to Bentley University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. She graduated from Bentley University in 2008, with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Marketing & Communications. Disu went on to Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where she received Executive Education in Digital Leadership and Management

Career

In February 2009, straight out of university, she established an omni-medial, marketing and retail company with headquarters in New York and a satellite branch in Lagos, Nigeria. The group's client list includes corporate and social enterprises, government and non-for-profit agencies, individual lifestyle, and media brands such as: Verisk Analytics, that lasted four months in 2016 and another with Hearst Magazines, beauty brand by Kimora Lee Simmons' Shinto Clinical, Iman Cosmetics, Pikolinos Shoes, USAID, as well as celebrities like Korto Momolu and Akon

Honors and recognition

Disu and her work has been recognized in :