Tommy J.Z. Odama, FIMC, CMC
GMD/CEO
Biography
Tommy Odama J.Z is an astute real estate consultant with tremendous experience and knowledge in luxury property sales and lettings, property management and development, property appraisals, investment advisory, facility management and publishing. He belongs to Lagos’s top echelon of Luxury realtors and is renowned for closing some of Nigeria’s biggest real estate transactions.
He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Luxury Villas Group, LVG, – a multi-award winning real estate services group of companies with specialised subsidiaries offering bespoke real estate services across the entire real estate value chain.
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Tommy’s thirst for knowledge is insatiable. In addition to earning a certification in Project Management Fundamentals from the Knowledge Train Learning Matter, UK, he is also a diploma degree holder of the Hetta Institute in New York. Tommy participated in the Harvard Business School’s Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design and Leadership in 2017. He has also attended numerous seminars, locally and internationally.
A Fellow of the Institute of Administration, Tommy is also a member of the Association of Estate Agents in Nigeria (AEAN) and a winner of several personal awards including:
- Tell Magazine’s Integrity in Leadership Award 2023
- Guardian Newspapers’ 60 leading Real Estate CEOs of 2022
- Vanguard Newspapers’ top 50 CEOs of 2019
- Real Estate Personality Leadership of the Year 2016 organized by the African Prize for Leadership Excellence
- Emerging CEO in Africa Award organized by the Leadership Magazine
- Nigerian Role Model in Real Estate Awards 2015, organized by the Africa Child Foundation
- National Outstanding Leadership Award by the National Association of Polytechnic Students
His thriving conglomerate, LVG, is also a proud winner of the:
- African Best Quality Real Estate Services Provider for the year 2015, an award organized by the African Quality Institute and
- Best Customer Service Award in Real Estate, 2015, organized by the Nigerian Customer Service Award.
Tommy brought together key players within the Real Estate sector when he launched his Group’s maiden edition of the Fusion of Real Estate, Interiors and Art (FREIA) – an annual industry event where experts hold robust discussions on innovations and development within the real estate space. Tom’s recognition as an authority in Nigeria’s luxury real estate market has resulted in high-profile interviews conducted by Arise TV, Channels TV, and Silverbird TV; and profiling by the Business Year, a financial magazine with an audience spanning the entire Middle East and Africa.
The serial entrepreneur that he is, Tommy’s latest venture is the opening of an ultra-exclusive, membership only, resort in Lekki, Lagos, called Un Arena Resort and Spa by LVG Lifestyle.
Tom is happily married with children.
Contact
Phone numbers:
+234 817 250 0000