Barbara Okereke is a Nigerian cake designer and entrepreneur, founder and managing director of Oven Secret Limited.She has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Anambra State University, and an MBA in Oil and Gas Management from Coventry University. She opted to learn cake design at Fair Cake culinary school in Greenwich, London after so many failed attempt in getting job in the oil and gas sector. In 2015 Okereke started her own cake baking business in Port Harcourt and has gone on to gain the attention of the world from baking and designing cakes.
She has also created over a thousand cake designs, and trained over has five hundred students physically and online
In 2019 Barbara Okereke was listed under Forbes 30 under 30 list, alongside other entrepreneurs and in 2020 The Guardian included her on their list of 100 most inspiring women in Nigeria.