4x founder | 9 years Fortune 200 leader | Writing about leadership and personal growth

I’m the founder of Ghost Nomad, a custom vehicle studio focused on thoughtful builds, fabrication, and engineering-driven design.

I work hands-on, designing, building, testing, and refining vehicles with an emphasis on how they drive, how they feel, and how they hold up in real-world use. The work blends mechanical problem-solving, fabrication, and aesthetics, with a preference for doing things deliberately rather than quickly.

Before Ghost Nomad, I spent nearly a decade in leadership roles at a Fortune 200 company, building and operating complex digital systems and teams. That experience shapes how I work today through strategic thinking, strong systems, and disciplined execution applied to physical products.

Ghost Nomad is where engineering, design, and long-term use come together.

Jonathan Butterworth

You get the most actionable audience building tips on LinkedIn | Currently helping 4 founders reduce CAC by turning their LinkedIn brand into a 24/7 salesperson.

In 2020, I left a miserable HR job. No savings, no backup plan. Just fear.

My dad was furious. 

Understandably, I had just walked away from what so many considered a golden opportunity.

I felt like a failure. 

But deep down, I knew I had to make a change. Because staying meant being stuck in a life and career I had no passion for. I was also trapped in:

🛑 A relationship I thought would last forever
🛑 The house I had lived in for 25 years
🛑 And Sundays spent with my mom’s delicious rice and chicken stew

It seemed too comfortable for my growth.

So, I took the risk. Learned social media management and quit my job.

With no formal training, I hustled day and night, looking for internship opportunities. After months of rejection, a marketing and brand manager for an Edtech company took a chance on me.

It wasn’t easy. But that first step opened doors I never imagined.

Since then, I’ve worked with some of the biggest tech brands across Africa and beyond. Today, I manage social media for a New York-based startup, earning 100x more than I did back then.

In my current role, I’ve:

1. Helped monetize our YouTube channel
2. Created the company’s top three viral posts
3. Increased brand presence on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Even though my dad still thinks I made a mistake, I'm having the time of my life observing startups (especially in Africa) from my Marketing POV.

Darius Ogenyi

Why Paystack restructured into a holding company (The Stack Group HQ)

Content @Tech Safari | Making sense of the global startup ecosystem, starting with Africa.

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