Geoffrey Ekongot

Title: CEO
Organization: Black Canvas Media

Geoffrey is a creative professional with 10 years experience in creative communication, multimedia, graphic design and web development within a diverse range of business. He is a conceptual thinker with a firm grasp of creative technologies, typography and communication. He is highly skilled in the creation and execution of project wide designs, and coordinating the production of visual materials.

Geoffrey is a creative entrepreneur and the CEO at Black Canvas Media
Has served as talent consultant for the global music television channel MTV base and was responsible for getting a lot of Ugandan acts on MTV base.
He is a co-founder and former chairman of the Uganda Hiphop Foundation
Co-founder Uganda Music Forum Foundation and has been actively involved in the development of the Uganda music industry.
He has served as a talent consultant for British Council Uganda.
Since 2004, he has been closely involved in the anti-counterfeit and ant-piracy campaigns. He pioneered the use of hologram technology in the local entertainment industry including their usage on CDs and concert ticketing as an anti-piracy tool.
He has been involved with numerous creative communication campaigns for both profit and non-profit organizations including.

Geoffrey is also a social activist and co-founder of the Institute for Country Pride (ICP) an organization that exists to design, inspire, and promote a national need for nurturing, training and raising a new national character that defines Ugandans as just, productive and orderly people. He is also a co-founder for City Yange Foundation. Its mission is to inspire and sensitize individuals and community towards taking greater ownership and responsibility for the transformation of the places where they live or work.