Afua Agyekum

About Afua Agyekum

Strategic problem solver and experienced Program Manager with a strong background in driving technical team delivery, strategy development, and execution. Over my 14-year career, I\'ve led operations, projects, Agile transformations, and process improvements across various business areas. I have a proven track record of supporting and executing the goals and initiatives of organizational leaders, ensuring alignment with Enterprise business objectives.I excel at building relationships and fostering cross-functional collaboration, influencing stakeholders, and implementing strategic initiatives that drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency at the team, program, and organizational levelsDiversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB) Leader dedicated to creating impactful DIB programs and experiences.

Experience

1. Generative Ai Program Manager

   Capital One

   Apr 2025 — Present

   Led the design and launch of the organization Generative AI Program, standing up structure, governance, and delivery processes to create leadership awareness, enable responsible AI innovation and accelerate adoption. I partnered across the Enterprise GenAI Program to embed compliance standards, maintained executive visibility on all GenAI initiatives, and drove monthly SLT reviews to inform prioritization and decision-making. Program managed a cross-org initiative to create scalable data pipeline architecture and reusable components, facilitated weekly cross-workstream syncs to accelerate execution, developed executive-level materials to drive stakeholder alignment, and executed the first cross- org Gen AI Summit to set strategy, objectives, and success metrics for long-term AI maturity.

Education

• Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business

  Bachelors of Science

Skills

• Outlook
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Event Planning
• Microsoft Word
• Project Planning
• Team Leadership
• Promotions
• Microsoft Access
• Event Management
• Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Customer Service
• Marketing
• Process Improvement
• Leadership
• Visio
• Management