• Executive Director, Information Technology and Operations, Access Bank Plc.
• Member, Global Technology Advisory Board, Mastercard
• President, FINTECH Nigeria
• Non Executive Director, NIBBS
• Chairman, Access Bank Plc., Kenya
• Chartered member, British Computer Society
• Member, Institute of Directors
• Former Chairman, NESG FinTech Thematic Group
• Former Chairman, Fintech Roadmap Committee, SEC, Nigeria
• Former Executive Director, Market Operations and Technology, Nigerian Stock Exchange
• Former Director, Business Transformation Programmes , Barclays Bank Plc.
• MBA, CASS Business School ; MSc, South Bank University; BSc, University of Ife

Mark Elliott is Division President of Mastercard, Sub-Saharan Africa. He is responsible for the overall performance, strategic direction, and brand development of Mastercard in Sub-Saharan Africa. His role includes scaling of the latest payments technologies to drive financial inclusion.

Mark joined Mastercard in 2011, from Barclays Bank, as Global Products and Solutions Lead, based in Dubai, where he had responsibility for all products and solutions across the Middle East and Africa region.  In 2014, he moved to Johannesburg as Division President, South Africa. His coverage area has now increased to include Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to Mastercard, he worked at Barclays Bank, ING Barings, PwC, and Arthur Andersen in various roles with a focus around M&A and general management.

Mark holds a BA (Hons) in Combined Studies and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales. He is also a non-executive board member of non-profit organization Junior Achievement South Africa. He is a British national who grew up in Hong Kong and India.

Branka Mracajac is the CEO of 9 Payment Service Bank (9PSB), Nigeria’s foremost payment service bank with the mandate to close the financial exclusion gap in Nigeria. She is a seasoned enterprise resource planning expert with 15 years of leadership experience, recording notable achievements to her credit within the traditional banking and FinTech industries. She is passionate about women’s development and empowerment.

Dr Segun Aina is a global professional banking leader, internationally rated change driver, influencer and thought leader, respected futurist and a consistent philanthropist. He had three decades of distinguished banking career and voluntarily retired from active banking service after a six years tenure as Bank MD/CEO.

Dr. Aina is the inaugural Chairman of Global Council of Global Banking Education Standards Board (GBEStB) 2017 to date, a past President of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN 2012 to 2014), and past president of the West African Bankers Association (Nigeria Chapter) 2001.

A tech visionary who set up Fintech Associates Ltd as far back as 2002, he is founding President, Fintech Association of Nigeria (FTAN), initiator and founding President of the Africa Fintech Network (AFN), Founder/Chairman, The Fintech Institute (TFI) among others.

Dr. Aina who has been variously described as Nigeria’s finTech envoy, incubated a number of successful fintech startups and sits on the Boards of various institutions in Banking, Insurance, Agriculture, Technology sectors etc. He also serves as a member of the UK-Africa Fintech Investment Group, a UK Govt initiative co-Chaired by the Lord Mayor of London and UK Prime Minister Ambassador for Business Fintech.

Dr. Aina is a distinguished alumnus of University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, INSEAD France, Harvard Business School (HBS), IMD Switzerland, and the esteemed Lagos Business School (LBS).

His contributions to the academic sector is legendary – he was a member of the pioneer Advancement Board of Obafemi Awolowo University 2006 to 2012 and currently Chairman Advancement Board of Federal University of Technology Akure (2011 to date), Chairman National Think Tank (initiative of University of Ibadan Research Foundation of which he is a member) and Member, Osun State University Advancement Board.

Dr Aina is Fellow of London Institute of Banking and Finance, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, Institute of Directors, Nigerian Institute of Management as well as Member, Toronto Region Board of Trade, Canada and Canadian Council for Africa.

He holds the Nigeria National honors of Officer of the Order of Federal Republic (OFR) and has received honorary doctorate degrees from three Universities.

Mr. Ernest Mbenkum is a Cameroonian/Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and investor who has founded successful technology companies in Europe, North America, and Africa.
Ernest is the founder and CEO of Interstellar Inc., Africa’s first enterprise blockchain infrastructure company that powers critical blockchain infrastructure for digital payments and financial institutions in Africa.

Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu is a vastly experienced banker and financial expert, trained in reputable institutions of learning in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and United States of America.

Mr. Onyeagwu is a graduate of Accounting from Auchi Polytechnic where he obtained the Ordinary National diploma in 1984 and Higher National Diploma in 1987.  He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989 while he was still undergoing the compulsory National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) post graduation and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) in 2003.

He is an alumnus of the prestigious University of Oxford, England, from where he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy, and certificate in Macroeconomics. He also undertook extensive executive level business education in Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Business School of Columbia University, the Harvard Business School of Harvard University (all in the United States) and Lagos Business School of the Pan African University, Nigeria.

He has nearly 30 years’ experience in the banking industry in Nigeria.  He joined Zenith Bank Plc in 2002 as a Senior Manager, in the Internal Control and Audit Group of the bank.  His professionalism, competence, integrity and commitment to the set objectives of the bank saw him rise swiftly between 2003 and 2005, first, as Assistant General Manager, then Deputy General Manager, and eventually as General Manager of the bank.  In these capacities, he handled strategies for new business and branch development, management of risk assets portfolios, treasury functions, strategic top level corporate, multinationals and public institutional relationships, among others.

As Deputy Managing Director, Mr. Onyeagwu has oversight over the bank’s Financial Control and Strategic Planning, Risk Management, Retail Banking, Institutional and Corporate banking business portfolios, IT Group, Credit Administration, Treasury and Foreign Exchange Trading, as well as general administration of the bank, among others.

He was named Executive Director of the bank in 2013, and put in charge of Lagos and South-South Zones as well as strategic groups/business units of the bank including Financial Control & Strategic Planning, Treasury and Correspondent Groups, Human Resources Group, Oil and Gas Group, and Credit Risk Management Group, etc. He was named Deputy Managing Director of the bank in 2016.

Mr. Onyeagwu has been on the board of Zenith Bank Ghana, Zenith Pensions Custodian Limited, Zenith Nominees Limited and African Finance Corporation (AFC) within the last six years.  In AFC, he serves on the Board Risk & Investment Committee (BRIC) and Board Audit & Compliance Committee (BAAC).  At Zenith Bank Ghana, he chairs the Board Credit and Governance Committees.

Ebuka Ogbodo is the Public Policy Manager for Anglophone West Africa at Meta (née Facebook). In this role, he manages strategic engagements with governments, civil society, and other policy influencers and co-shapes Meta’s policy agenda across five countries in English speaking West Africa.

Dr. David Isiavwe is currently the General Manager and function head of Operations & Technology at Ecobank Nigeria.  He is also the current President and Chairman Board of Trustees of the Information Security Society of Africa, Nigeria (ISSAN), a not-for-profit organization focused on securing the cyber space of Africa. He was previously General Manager at Union Bank of Nigeria Plc as well as the  Chief Operating Officer, UBA Africa. Also, he was the Deputy Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of   Banque Internationale Du Burkina (BIB) – in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

David Isiavwe has approximately 30 years working experience spanning the Banking industry as well as the academe having been a lecturer at the Department of Accounting, University of Benin from 1989 before joining Citibank in 1992 where he rose to the rank of Vice President, based in Cape town South Africa.

David holds a Ph.D. degree in Accounting. His key areas of interest and specialization include Digital Transformation, Corporate Governance, Business Transformation/Turn-Around and the Security of Information Systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB) and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) by the (ISC)² of the United States of America  as well as being  Certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology (CGEIT) by ISACA also in the United States of America. David holds additional professional certifications and has attended extensive international courses in diverse fields of study from notable universities like  Harvard University, Boston University, University of Oxford – Saïd Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a host of other institutions.

Bayo is responsible for leading the company’s digital, business transformation and emerging customer efforts. This includes driving the development, improvement and day to day operations of the company’s digital channels and supporting eco-systems through which general and health insurance, as well as savings and investments retail products are purchased online; managing relationships with e-commerce and technology partners; improving online product portfolio management and enhancing the use of customer relationship management & analytics tools.
He also manages the internal effort to continuously optimise critical business processes through analysis and guided experimentation. This initiative leverages heavily on technology to deliver solutions that improve the overall efficiency and profitability of the company.

Prior to joining AXA Mansard, he was the Associate Partner for Business Advisory Services at Phillips Consulting Ltd. In this role, he led many engagements to improve the performance of private and public sector organisations through the articulation of their strategies and transformation of their structures, systems and people. His core competencies include strategy development, organisational transformation, process re-engineering, performance management and market research. Bayo is a Disruptive Innovation enthusiast, certified Balanced Scorecard Graduate and PRINCE2 Project Manager. He has attended professional development programmes at leading institutions including the Lagos Business School, London Business School, Harvard Business School and INSEAD. He is a highly experienced facilitator and speaks regularly at business events.

Oluwafunto is the current Vice President, of Financial Markets at AFEX, where she leads engagement with Capital Market Operators and Financial institutions to unlock funding for smallholder farmers and create a portfolio of products backed by commodities as an alternative asset class for investors.  Recently, she was involved in raising over a billion naira in funds that will provide 25,000 smallholder farmers with quality input for the 2020 planting season.

She is a market development expert with over 9 years of work experience in delivering financial service solutions to medium and large enterprises. Adept at identifying strategic measures to strengthen operational performance, Oluwafunto has a strong reputation for effectively managing multiple clients’ engagement through all phases of product development, research, strategic planning, campaign testing, and post-go-live

Lola is a Digital and Innovation specialist with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She started her career as a software engineer at Investec Asset Management, London where she was responsible for the development of digital solutions in the asset management portfolio. Since then, she has worked in various capacities across different roles in the financial services industry in Europe and Africa at companies including Dresdner Kleinwort, Commerzbank, BNP Paribas, Union Bank, and First Bank Nigeria. She is currently the Chief Digital Officer at FBN Quest where she is responsible for defining and implementing the Digital & Innovation strategy and roadmap with a focus on identifying new digital product/service/fintech opportunities, optimising the customer experience across channels, and improving operational efficiency using technology.

Lola holds a BSC in Business Information systems (First Class Honours) from Middlesex University, London with a scholarship for outstanding academic performance and an MBA from Imperial College Business School, London. She has founded two start-ups, including Transthat.com, a peer-to-peer logistics platform. She also founded Techstart.africa, an initiative focused on empowering students interested in starting a career in technology and equipping them with the requisite knowledge and support to break into the technology field and build strong careers regardless of their first degree of study. She is also a faculty member at Elev8 global academy for digital leaders and serves on the Tech Committee of WimBiz, the Digital Transformation Committee of JA Nigeria, Imperial College Enterprise Labs and She Leads Africa as a business coach.

She is one of the 30 women profiled by Fintech Africa as one of the exceptional women playing leading roles in their various companies and shaping the Fintech sector in Africa. She is also recognized by African Shapers as one of the 60 African female fintech experts who are helping to build a professional identity for women in fintech.
Lola has visited over 30 countries and recently launched her first novel “Lagos to London”. A fiction novel aimed at inspiring youths to find their own paths and s

Dr. Babatunde Oghenobruche Obrimah is the Chief Operating Officer of Fintech Association of Nigeria. He is a multi-skilled individual with working experiences spanning the banking sector, non-bank financial services sector, financial consulting services, project management and public sector.

His Professional career commenced at First Bank Nigeria Plc and worked in various banks during his banking career. Positions held during his banking career included: Group Head; Consumer banking, Agriculture/SMEs, Infrastructures, Food/Beverages, and Investment Banking. He served as an alternate Board member on the board of ValuCard Limited (now Unified Payments Plc) from 2004-2005. He was Managing Director/CEO of ELBI Integrated Resources Limited, a consulting form that provided advisory to real estate developers. His public sector experience was with NIRSAL Plc – a fully owned subsidiary of the Central Bank of Nigeria focused on de-risking and facilitating funding to agricultural value chains.

He has Certifications in Project Management (PMP and PRINCE2). He has attended various international and local courses on Artificial Intelligence, Creative Thinking, International Trade, Leadership, Marketing, PPP and other soft skill courses. He is a member of Project Management Institute, Nigeria Institute of Management and Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria amongst others.

Gbenga is a Chaired Professor of Finance at the University of Edinburgh (UoE); as the Director for Industry, Economy and Society at Edinburgh Futures Institute, he leads on FinTech at UoE. He is the Deputy Scientific Director at Fondazione European Capital Markets CRC (Italy) and Fellow at RoZetta Institute (Australia).

Oremeyi Akah is a graduate of Electrical Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin. She obtained an MBA degree from the Judge Business School- the University of Cambridge, the UK in 2011.

Oremeyi has been a member of the Interswitch team for the past 18 years where she started her career as a pioneer member in 2002. Today, She is proud to still be a member of the Interswitch team where she has worked in several capacities within the fintech value chain including  – software engineering, implementation, training, operations and business management.

She is currently working to execute an integrated Employee and  Customer Engagement strategy. While doing her MBA in Cambridge UK, she served as the Vice president of the Nigerian Students’ Association. She was also a part of the 5-man team that won the 2011 Hult Global Case Challenge in New York, endorsed by the Clinton Foundation.

She is excitedly married to her best friend and they have 3 amazing sons. Other than work, She supports her husband to oversee a growing Church congregation under the RCCG umbrella. In their parish, Oremeyi oversees the women’s fellowship with a membership of over 120 women.

Oremeyi believes that Africa has a bright future and that it will take Africans to build Africa.

Her hobbies include building her God connection, fashion, learning of the human cause of global warming and  dreaming of exciting travel destinations around the world

Uche is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (an equivalent of Queens Counsel in the UK) and the Managing Partner of Alliance Law Firm. He heads the firm’s transaction, commercial and dispute resolution practice. His skill and insight to simplify and proffer solutions to complex issues have been highly commended by the clients of the firm and peers. He is ranked as a top and leading lawyer in Chambers 500 and International Financial Law Ranking (IFLR) and has received a number of local and international awards. He is a notable contributor to the IMF/World Bank Doing Business Guide publications and the author of “Class Actions in Nigeria” – a pioneer book on the subject in Nigeria.

He has advised on a wide range of matters in Oil & Gas, Environmental, Capital Markets, Power, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Infrastructure, Projects, Real Estate, Fintech & Intellectual Property, and Corporate Commercial.

He is a notable Litigator, proficient in domestic and international arbitrations (ICC, LCIArb, LMAA, Uncitral, LCA etc).

Uche is the fourth Chairman of the Capital Market Solicitors Association (“CMSA”), a member of the ministerial committee that recommended the recently implemented 26 billion (US$170 million USD) forbearance of debts granted to stockbrokers by the Federal Government of Nigeria as announced by the Minister of Finance/CME. He is also a member of the Capital Market Master Plan Committee set up by the Securities and Exchange Commission and has served as a council member of the Nigeria Bar Association – Section on Business Law, and a member of the National Technical Committee for the Implementation of E-Dividend in Nigeria. He is currently the CMSA coordinator of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Emerging Capital Market Project comprising Lawyers of the UK Law Society of England and Wales and Nigerian Lawyers.

He has been listed amongst the topmost integrity-driven professionals in Nigeria by the major newspapers including The Guardian and Thisday. He has contributed over 40 published articles on the capital market, business and investment laws in the Business Day Law Specialist Section. Uche has also co-facilitated several seminars. He is ranked as a Leading Lawyer by the IFLR 1000 in Corporate, Financial and Energy Practice Areas.

Arsenii Tretiakov is the chairman of the FinTech Start Association (Russia). The Association aims at developing a strong FinTech community in Russia and the CIS region, cooperates with banks and promotes Russian FinTech projects to new markets.

Arsenii started his career as a business journalist at one of the top national broadsheets, then he worked at innovation departments of the National Blockchain Center at leading Russian universities. He was engaged in the promotion of several startups to the international market including a cross-border payments project.

At current, Arsenii also works on his PhD thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Madrid (Spain). Areas of interest: AI, FinTech, digital marketing, remittances, Art&Science.

Oluwasegun Adeleye is the Chief Technology Officer at Kora where he is scaling the engineering team and the product ecosystem.

Before he joined Kora, he worked in the e-commerce industry for four years.

Segun is passionate about driving business growth in every way possible but primarily through technology.

When he’s not in front of his laptop working, Oluwasegun is spending time with his family or catching up with movies and football.

Babalola Oladokun is presently the Regional Manager for SAS in Sub Saharan Africa. He has over 20 years of experience managing various aspects of Information Technology gained from top organizations like Nokia, HP, Oracle, Dell, and EMC. He is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants. He holds an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK. Babs as he is fondly called has attended several Courses in top Institutions like Johns Hopkins University and University of Pennsylvania USA. He also holds several Certifications, from Bluechip organizations such as Microsoft, Cisco, and the Project Management Institute.

Oyin Eva Johnson is a Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel at The Room (part of the African Leadership Group). She is a technology lawyer with experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria advising Fortune 500 companies (including HP and Amazon) and startups on intellectual property, cybersecurity, blockchain, software licensing and data protection, and on commercial transactions worth up to US $1.05 billion. Oyin obtained a 1st class in her law degree from the University of Liverpool and holds a masters of law degree from the University of Cambridge, with a focus on “Law and Technology” and “Privacy & Data Protection Law”.

She also serves as Head of Business Development & Policy on the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law ( ICT Committee) and is a Trustee of Megalios Information Technology Foundation (an IT training NGO), Head of Communications and HR, Whitefield Foundation (skill empowerment focused NGO) and on the Youth Board of Echoes of Mercy and Hope Foundation (an abused women rehabilitation NGO). She also serves as a Mentor, Target Oxbridge, UK where some of her mentees have received admission into the University of Cambridge.

Oyin is also a poet/ performing artiste.

Ajibade Laolu-Adewale is the Group Head, Partnerships, Digital Solutions and FINTECHs in WEMA Bank with responsibility to deepen relationship with Government, Businesses and Consumers for acquisition, value-added transactions and support. Ajibade is the Secretary for Emerging Payments and Technologies in the Committee of e-Business Industry Heads (CeBIH) and a certified cards and payments expert.

Olugbolahan Olusanya has a significant influence on the advancement of the information technology industry in Africa.

He is a Business Executive with over 15 years’ experience driving business growth, leading multicultural teams, optimizing organizational processes and infrastructures, and re-engineering multinational corporations ( Fortune 500 firms) in the Information Technology, Telecoms, Financial Services, and BPO industries across North America, India, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa (EMEA) regions.

Experienced in incremental revenue growth, business expansion strategies, achieving financial & operational performance targets, and fostering business relationships across global corporations. Has a history of uncovering business opportunities, directing strategies to improve operations, and increasing organizational market share.

Olugbolahan Olusanya is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC Global Certification) and a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultant (IMC)

Olugbolahan  is presently, Country Manager Tek Experts ,a leading global provider of technical support and services on behalf of the world’s largest technology enterprises, where he leads a team of over 2,000 engineers.

Mayowa leads McKinsey’s fintech work across Africa and our Financial Services Practice in West Africa. She works closely with private-, public-, and social-sector institutions across Africa on corporate finance, growth and large-scale transformation, strategies for foreign direct investors, financial analysis, scenario development, organization design, digital marketing, and payments.

Tolulope is a multiskilled financial services industry player with over fifteen (15) years’ experience in Retail Banking, SME Banking, Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking and Transaction Banking. He has worked across local Banks such as FirstBank, Ecobank and UBA.  Tolu embraced the Fintech community while serving as the Strategic Partnerships Manager in FirstBank where he managed multiple partnership interactions and events to promote ecosystem growth for 4 years.

Tolu holds a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from the University of Ibadan and an MBA. He is also a Chartered Banker with the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), and a Project Management Institute certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Tolu is presently the Fintech Business Development Lead for Mastercard in West Africa, delivering the Mastercard’s value propositions to Fintechs in the region.

Mike Odusami, MBA, CISSP, is CEO/President of MAXUT Consulting Limited, a fraud risk management, cybersecurity, and mobile app security organization based in Lagos, with offices in Oakland California USA.
In his role, he is responsible for setting the business and strategic directions of the company and for day-to-day management decisions. Prior to leading MAXUT, Mike was a Product Strategy Director, at CA Technologies
(formerly Computer Associates) at their European HQ in London UK, and later at CA Global HQ in New York, where he led product development and marketing teams for enterprise information security and IT service management solutions (ITSM). CA, now part of Broadcom Inc. was a global infrastructure technology leader, offering solutions to over 90% of Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide.
In his role at CA, he consulted for various firms in Europe and in the US, on large business transformation infrastructure projects, driven by emerging enterprise
technology solutions. Mike has been very active in cybersecurity industry forums in Nigeria, as a panelist and speaker at various industry events, and successfully co-hosted annual Cybersecurity & Banking Fraud Summit events in Lagos in conjunction with OneSpan (VASCO Data Security), and hosted various Workshops for the CBN and financial sector stakeholders, on pressing industry challenges including open banking, electronic financial frauds risk management, data privacy and other pressing information security issues impacting the ecosystem.

He is an active member of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, New York City Chapter, a Certified Information Systems Security (CISSP) professional, and a member of the FinTech Association of Nigeria. He has contributed white papers and articles on information security to various industry publications including the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum Annual Report (NeFF), Technology Banker Magazine and others.

Mike started his early career at NCR Corporation, Lagos after graduating with a BSc in Electronics Engineering from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University).in Lagos. He later moved to NCR, London UK, and completed his postgraduate studies at Brunel University Uxbridge, with an MSc. Degree in Data Communication Systems. He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry UK.

Giwa Kehinde is a cyber security leader with over a decade experience in Information Security with requisite knowledge in managing and implementing key information security objectives and control frameworks to maximize productivity, confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical information assets. He has managed cyber security transformation programs, provided leadership and oversight roles across various cyber security initiatives.

Amongst several relevant certification in Technology, Cyber and Information Security, Giwa Kehinde holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ilorin, a post graduate degree in Computer and Information Security from the University of Liverpool and Master’s of Science in Information Security and Digital Forensic from the University of East London. He is currently the Head, Technology Security Operations at Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC.

JOSEPH EIMUNJEZE is a Partner in Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie’s banking and finance, Fintech, corporate advisory, and tax teams. His specialisations also include mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and corporate restructuring, foreign investments, and banking regulatory compliance.

Joseph advises various local and international clients on banking, finance, and project finance matters and on derivatives, foreign investments, securities (equity and debt) and foreign exchange restrictions. He has advised on several facilities (including syndicated loans) advanced by financial institutions to various corporates and other entities in Nigeria. Joseph regularly advise various Fintechs on regulatory matters, licensing, structuring, products development, and other related matters including on issues in relation to cryptocurrencies.

He was a key member of the firm’s teams that advised on the establishment of the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund.  He regularly advises clients on debt and equity deals including euro bonds issuance by corporate organisations and the Federal Government of Nigeria.

His corporate advisory experience includes advising local and foreign clients on a diverse range of issues around as investment structure, debt-financing, restructuring, banking and finance, taxation and tax-structuring, the restructuring of petroleum sector operations and PE/infrastructure funds formation.

Joseph regularly contributes articles on diverse areas of law and business for publishing in international and local publications.  He was a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Committee which reformed the processes for the pioneer status incentive, member of the SEC ISDA Workgroup to facilitate the development of the derivatives market in Nigeria, former Treasurer of the Capital Market Solicitors Association etc.  Joseph is a member of various professional organisations including the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Joseph is ranked as a ‘go to’ and ‘highly regarded’ lawyer by various international ranking institutions.

Bolanle (Bola) is a seasoned financial sector specialist with more than 20 years of experience in private sector development/investment, international development and diplomacy, climate & agriculture advisory and financing, and policy advocacy.

His early career days was in banking where he handled financing of SMEs/MSMEs and investment advisory across multiple sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture in Nigeria. From there he moved to the University of the West of England where he led the delivery of the flagship programme (Accounting and Finance) and researched into bank credit ratings, financial crime, and anti-money laundering. Given his quality of research, and deep understanding of the financial sector in a developing economy context, Bola transitioned into the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office as a Private Sector Development Adviser. While at post in Nigeria, he was seconded to the World Bank as a Senior Financial Sector Specialist, where he designed and implemented several economic development programmes.

He currently leads, advises and implements several development programmes such as the UK- funded LINKS program – an economic development project in Northern Nigeria focusing on investment, innovation, business environment reforms as well as climate- smart agriculture. He leads advocacy and facilitates high level engagements with the Nigerian government institutions including Central Bank of Nigeria, Securities Exchange Commission, National Insurance Commission, Pension Commission, and financial sector institutions with the goals of delivering high-impact financing for private sector and creating an inclusive, green, sustainable/market friendly financial market in Nigeria as well as advocacy of inclusive finance (remittances).

Dayo Ademola is the Managing Director, Nigeria, for Branch International, a San Francisco-based
fintech operating in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and India. In this role, she is responsible for achieving
key country metrics for Branch, as well as managing team operations across business functions and
driving debt fund raising strategy.
Most recently, Dayo was the Head of Innovation at EFInA, a Financial Sector Development organization
focused on promoting Financial Inclusion in Nigeria and funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth
& Development Office (FCDO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, she was
responsible for the administration of EFInA’s multi-million-dollar Innovation Fund, funding licenced
financial services providers as well as start-up and growth-stage fintechs, with an aim to boost financial
inclusion in Nigeria.
Dayo is senior financial services and technology professional, with extensive experience in innovation,
business strategy, customer segmentation, strategic marketing, product positioning, product
development and business performance management across the software, telecoms and financial
services industries. She has held roles in Union Bank, MainOne and Rosetta Stone (USA) amongst
others.
With over fifteen years of experience across technology, fintech, banking and financial inclusion, she
is passionate about leveraging technology and capital to deepen access to financial services and
wealth for Africans at all levels. Her personal goal is to help build successful and profitable business
models that help solve this challenge at scale.
Dayo holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business and Economics from Temple University, USA
and a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayo-odulate-ademola-67722554/
Twitter: @iamadedayo

Olaniyi Toluwalope (Awosope) is currently the MD/CEO of eTranzact International Plc, one of Nigeria’s leading payment technology companies. Niyi is a highly accomplished, dynamic and results oriented Fintech Professional with solid credentials and a proven track record in formulating and implementing operational and financial strategies, identifying investment opportunities, structuring and negotiating multi-party transactions, establishing best practice financial systems, structures and processes, as well as building high performance driven organizations. His over 22 year career spans Financial Technology, Investment Banking, Corporate Accounting, Corporate Finance, Equity Investment Advisory and Research providing qualitative and quantitative investment advisory and research to institutional investors.

He gathered his experience in global institutions including JPMorgan Securities Investment Bank, Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston’s Investment Bank all in New York City as well as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Niyi has provided advisory initiatives to Fortune 500 companies on Mergers and Acquisition as well as Equity and Debt Capital Structuring. Some of the key companies he advised include General Electric, United Technologies, Danaher, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Sherwin Williams, Apollo Capital, Bain Capital, Georgia Gulf Corporation and a host of others.
He has a first degree in Accounting, and an MBA from the prestigious University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. He Graduated as a Deans Merit Scholar and was appointed as a Second Year Investment Banking Coach for the first year students preparing for internships in Investment Banking. He was elected President of the Darden African Business Organization, (DABO). He was a part of the global business exchange program at IESE Business School as a student of the University of Virginia.

For his outstanding role in leading the company’s transformation in 2018/2019, he was recognized by the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Business Day Newspaper as one of Nigeria’s Top 25 CEOs. Under Niyi’s leadership, eTranzact won the ‘Best Corporate Turnaround and Transformation’ award in 2019.

Niyi is an ardent sports lover, and a fan of Arsenal Football Club.

Peretimi is a Senior Associate in AELEX’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice. She obtained her Masters’ degree in Information Technology Law from Fordham university, New York.

In her role at AELEX, she regularly advises diverse tech startups on their business structure, regulatory compliance, fund-raising, contract negotiations and other corporate/commercial and governance issues.

A proficient and experienced (over 21 years) cross-functional Financial Services Professional. Ernst & Young trained Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), two decades of work experience across key areas of the banking sector such as Internal Control and Audit, Compliance, Credit Risk Management, Loan recovery, and remediation, Project and Infrastructure financing, Corporate and commercial banking, Branch operations, retail banking, key relationship management, business development, sales and branch management. A YouWin Young Entrepreneur Grant National merit recipient in the Federal Government of Nigeria and World Program YOUWIN Programme.

A general Tech and Fintech enthusiast and graduate of the Oxford Fintech Programme, Said Business School, Oxford University. Co-founder/CEO of Lastmile Financials Ltd. (PayMasta App), a leading Earned wage access platform providing inclusive financial wellness and benefits for employees, freelancers, and business owners across Africa.

Joy is a Cybersecurity Specialist with 17 years of experience which includes but not limited to IT Audit, Information Security, Cybersecurity Specialist, Security Operation Center Manager, Cybersecurity Governance and Cloud Security Architect with three financial institutions (Fidelity bank, Sterling bank and Heritage bank) in Nigeria before joining Microsoft where she worked as a trusted advisor and consultant to Commercial banks and Telecom for hybrid infrastructure security

She has developed and implemented Enterprise Security Strategy, Policies and Framework that strategically integrated elements of NIST Risk Management, Cybersecurity Frameworks, SANS Critical Control, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Cybersecurity Framework in Financial Sector and Telecom

Oluchi Enebeli is Nigeria’s 1st Female Blockchain Engineer and Top 10 Women in Web3 Changemakers by Near and Forkast, currently working across multiple fields in the Blockchain space, her work cuts across Engineering, Product, and Management.

She’s the founder of Web3Ladies (https://web3ladies.com/) a community empowering the next generation of blockchain industry female leaders who will build, nurture, and develop a sustainable web3 space in Africa and beyond.

With past and current experiences across companies such as Liquality, Crypto.com, Nestcoin, Binance, Bundle Africa, and Sterling Bank.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and a Law degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.  She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986. She also holds an MBA degree from the prestigious Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.

Obi has over two decades of experience in Banking, holding key management positions spanning Credit and Marketing, Credit Risk Management, Human Resources and Customer Service.  During her career, she worked in some of the largest banks in the country including, Diamond Bank Plc, Zenith Bank Plc and United Bank for Africa Plc from where she retired as an Executive Director in 2016.

Prior to her banking career, she practiced with the Law firm of Olaniwun Ajayi & Co., specializing in commercial law. She was also at Accenture as a member of the senior management team where she led various comprehensive planning, organizational and resource management improvement projects in the private and public sectors.

Obi is the pioneer Chief Executive Officer of EnterpriseNGR Professional Advocacy Group Ltd/Gte, an independent member-led policy and advocacy group established with the objective of promoting and advocating for the Financial and Professional Services sector of Nigeria, with a view to transforming Nigeria into the premier financial services center in Africa.

As an independent expert, Andrew works with a variety of banking, commercial and government clients in areas such as fintech engagement, corporate innovation, digital and business strategy… applying an ‘outside-in’ perspective. The ultimate goal is to enable clients to embrace innovation, by achieving a high level of organisational readiness.
Andrew has a strong international banking pedigree, having worked at HSBC and Citigroup for more than 18 years covering Country, Regional and Global responsibilities. For 4 of those years he was based in Hong Kong.
At HSBC, Andrew was the transaction banking global head of digital strategy and innovation and then the global fintech lead, so he understands the challenges of pursuing innovation and connecting external partners into large, complex organisations.

Andrew knows the fintech landscape. He has mentored fintech startups, strategised for them, invested in them and judged them at international pitching competitions. He was also co-host of the BetaBank podcast series looking at the future of financial services.

Andrew is an Advisor to International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, most recently supporting digital transformation and innovation initiatives in Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Malawi. He is also an Advisory Board Member of The Fintech Institute, in Africa. Based in Sydney, Andrew is proud to be Ambassador for Stone & Chalk, the largest curator of emerging tech hubs in Australia, as well as Ambassador for inQ Innovation, which specialises in scaling startups across international borders.

Martin is an Economist and Financial Analyst with 12+ years’ experience in economic research, governance, public policy, financial inclusion, international development and project management.

Presently, he leads the Ghana Fintech and Payments Association, the foremost fintech community and not-for-profit organization established to promote the advancement of financial technologies, digital/mobile payment institutions and money transmission companies and agencies in Ghana.

‘DeRemi Atanda is the Managing Director of Remita Payment Services Limited, which provides payment infrastructure, solutions and services to the fintech ecosystem,

financial intitutions as well as individuals, businesses and governments in Nigeria and across the continent.

Dr Patrick Conteh, is currently CEO, Africa Fintech Network (AFN), and before that was a member of AFN’s Advisory Board. He is also at present concurrently serving as economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning of Liberia, as well as a tutor for Cambridge Fintech Regulatory Innovation Training program. He is a financial sector and a development finance professional with over twenty-five years of combined experience spanning the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. A strong advocate for fintech and other disruptive technologies as platforms for leapfrogging financial inclusion in Africa.

In the recent past, Patrick served as advisor to the Central Bank of Liberia and led a unique collaboration between Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) to strengthen Africa’s financial markets. As Regional Lead for Sub-Sahara Africa, Patrick successfully led a team embedded within FSDA, in the creation, dissemination, and adoption of FinTech-related knowledge across Sub- Sahara Africa (SSA). CCAF is a multi-disciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, in the United Kingdom, dedicated to the study of technology-enabled and innovative instruments, channels, and systems emerging outside of traditional finance.

Patrick was formerly the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, where amongst other reform initiatives, he pioneered one of Africa’s first regulatory sandboxes as part of an overarching financial inclusion strategy. Prior to that, he was Minister of State for fiscal affairs and was instrumental in the turnaround of Sierra Leone’s economy following the 2015/16 depression caused by the twin shocks of the Ebola Virus Disease and the unprecedented collapse of iron ore prices- Sierra Leone’ major exports.

Patrick served as Alternate Executive Director at the African Development Bank representing Sierra Leone, Ghana, Liberia, Gambia and Sudan, contributing to the formulation and implementation of various developmental programs and projects. His earlier career was in commercial banking spanning over sixteen straight years holding various senior management roles including Director of Risk Management and Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer.

Patrick holds an excellent combination of academic and professional qualifications and competencies spanning the disciplines of economics, finance, and management.

Nosiru Sonoiki is a seasoned agency banking professional with over 8 years of experience. He currently Heads the Agency Banking Unit of LibertyPay Limited and also oversees the business engagements at Whispa Konnect Ltd. He is an alumnus of the University of Lagos, where he obtained his BSc and MSc certificates.

Mujib is a thoroughbred technologist and an unrelenting pursuer of innovation who is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Remita, the electronic payment platform.

He has vast experience in software and systems design, development and implementation, project management, as well as Information and Infrastructure support. In his over a decade of software engineering, his contributions have made landmark impacts on Nigeria’s financial technology industry especially in the development and incremental advancement of Remita.

Stephen is the Chief Technology Officer at inq. Nigeria. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He also holds a Diploma in Internet Service Provider Design and Backbone Routing from the United States Telecommunications Training Institute in Washington DC and an MBA from the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom.

He has over 14 years of experience spanning Business Solutions Consulting, Technology, Telecommunications, Systems Integration and Product Development, working in various capacities.

Prior to joining inq. he was the Head, Solutions and Managed Network Services, at Dimension Data where he was committed to providing clients with the next strategic solution that would not only reduce their CAPEX or OPEX costs but will also drive revenue and profit.

Nchedolisa Anammah is an experienced digital financial services consultant. She built technical expertise while providing market intelligence and strategic advisory for several payment subsidiaries at Interswitch. Her work cut across multiple verticals including; payment gateways, agency banking, API infrastructure, switching and processing. She now oversees the Fintech practice unit at Stears, a data intelligence company focused on closing the data gap across Africa.

Kofo is an astute Technology, Banking and Fintech professional with over 18 years business and management experience leading diverse teams in delivering large scale transformational change across Public and Private sector institutions in Europe, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Kofo is currently the CEO of Woven Finance, a Payments Fintech focused on empowering African businesses through optimized payment services.
Prior to her current role, Kofo held strategic leadership positions across various sectors including Technology, Investment and Corporate Banking, Business Advisory, Strategy Consulting and Corporate Marketing Communications.
Notable firms Kofo has served includes Credit Suisse (Switzerland), DPR Ltd a UK based Fintech, Refinitiv (ex. Thompson Reuters), UK as well as FBNQuest, Nigeria where she led the Technology Division for its six business entities. Kofo also served as Head, Corporate and Investment Banking (Originations), a unit focused on the Public Sector and Infrastructure business.

Kofo holds an MBA specialising in entrepreneurship from Warwick Business School and SDA Bocconi, a BA degree from Coventry University, she is PRINCE2 and Scrum Master certified, and holds several certifications in Finance, Accounting and Capital Markets.

Tolulope leads the legal and compliance team at Branch, a multinational Fintech in the lending space with operations in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and India. She has also driven regulatory and compliance strategy for companies in the financial services, technology and entertainment space and has advised on the application of new technology to business models and products while skillfully navigating regulations. Some of the companies she has provided legal advice to include Uber, Google, Mastercard, Microsoft, Bitpesa, Kiva, Lendable etc.

She also writes and speaks on fintech and banking related topics.

Oluwadamilola Dawodu is a dedicated member of the Soft Alliance team, he heads the division behind SoftAlliance’s best-known products, including SoftPAY, Kashair, SoftSuite, SoftTAX, and PayGATE.

A Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner from the International Scrum Institute, he holds an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington, DC. As well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

CBDC, Blockchain, Cryptography, & Cybersecurity Researcher. Chairman, Blockchain Industry Coordinating Committee of Nigeria (BICCoN), Founder, Cryptography Development Initiative of Nigeria (CDIN)

A Cloud solutions architect and a Software developer with over 8 years of industry experience in SaaS development and deployment. Vast with FinTech solutions and payment gateway deployments. A natural business and technical team leader

Head of HUAWEI CLOUD Solution Team in Nigeria, with more than 10 years of experience in the ICT industry. Possess an extensive experience across most cloud technologies having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Fintech, Internet, and government industry.

Mrs. Aituaz Kola-Oladejo is a Fintech Strategist skilled in helping organizations in the financial services industry actualize their latent potentials and optimize limited resources. With 20+ years’ experience across banking operations, business development, talent management, risk management, innovation management, product management and research, she has been actively involved in several financial services industry committees charged with the responsibility of improving key aspects of the payment landscape in Nigeria. She is the Executive Director of the Financial Services Innovators (FSI), a non-for-profit organization of over 3,000 innovators. At FSI, the first Fintech Industry Innovation Sandbox in Africa was built and it provides a platform for innovators to experiment with their ideas thereby lowering the barriers to entry into the financial services industry. Her role in FSI also entails helping startups set up their business, succeed and grow by providing them with the right information, network and capacity building programmes. Before the advent of FSI, she was the Head of Research and Development at the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), the Central Switch of the nation where she led the ‘Enhance Payment Innovation and Empower Fintech Startup’ Initiative in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria. She also spent the first 12 years of her career as a banker and spent some time in operations, business development and risk management. She is a co-founder of Tech Innovation Academy (TIA), a learning and development platform whose mission is to raise a community of skillful and innovative techups that will redefine business models in Nigeria and Africa.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. She is also a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She is married with 3 children.

Frank Atat is a Finance professional with over 20yrs experience in the Banking Industry with specialization in Payments, Specialized Digital Products and Services.
He has worked in a few Commercial Banks: Defunct Equitoria Trust Bank, Skye Bank and FCMB where he led functional teams in Alternate Channels, Card Services, Remittances, Virtual Bank, and other Electronic Products.
He was instrumental in changing the digital landscape and making FCMB a renowned force in the Electronic Banking space.

He is currently the Group Head of e-Business in ProvidusBank where he is leading an Agile Team on Digital Transformation for Virtual Payments, Card Services, Open Banking and Fintech Partnerships.
His leadership earned the Bank an efficiency award for best Bank in POS transactions acquiring efficiency in 2019.

He is versed in Banking and Payment Systems and has successfully transcended into Business Strategy, Growth and Business Development.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School; he holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing from Digital Transformation Institute and a Digital Transformation Certification from imperial College
He is a Mentor and a Leader who thrives on inspiring and developing talents and in deploying disruptive & innovative solutions to market.
He has interests in the Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Open Banking, Social Networking and

Wale Olajubu is an accomplished strategic thought leader with over 14 years of experience working in the financial services industry in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan Africa. An experienced multi-skilled professional, he has worked cross functionally across Digital Financial Services, Retail and Commercial Banking Operations, Marketing Strategy & Implementation, Strategic Partnerships, Salesforce Effectiveness and Transformation and Organizational Change Management. He has a solid track record of delivering commercial operations, translating strategy into execution, and leading result-oriented teams and portfolios with an inclusive leadership style.

Wale Olajubu is currently the Managing Director of Assets Microfinance Bank, a leading microfinance bank providing top notch financial services and access to loans for everyone, which is set to launch a digital banking application, Monietree before the end of the year.

He previously served as Head, Growth and Innovation at Sterling Bank, where he led and drove the market acquisition of Digital Products (Mobile Financial Services, One bank, Cards and Issuing, POS & NQR Business, Digital Payments, Remittances, and Open Banking). Furthermore, he has previous experience with Ecobank, along with some other organizations with financial footprints across Africa

Henry is the MD of FairMoney Nigeria, with over 15 years of experience across Fintech, Investment Banking & Capital Markets, Brand Management and Consulting.

Henry joined FairMoney Nigeria as VP Capital Markets and led local currency debt fund raising of over $50M.

Prior to FairMoney, Henry worked at Quest Advisory Services Limited, Procter & Gamble Nigeria and Oando Plc.

Often caught introducing himself as Wealth as vast as the Ocean, Samuel Oladokun Olaoyenikan alias XeusTheGreat, is best known as the Blockchain Connoisseur.

The DeFi analyst, Tutor, Brand strategist ,Web3 advisor and Founder
of the much acclaimed NIRVANA Academy, DAO and Labs has, in just a year, had over 5,000 students under his direct tutelage worldwide and much more indirectly.

He has continually on boarded more individuals into the DeFi and NFTS world.

His mantra ‘To know is to be Free’ hasn’t only affected him but caused a ripple effect in the live of millions of people.
He has functioned as Head marketing and Creative director for an impressive number of Projects that have launched successfully, You just might be using one right now.

Matteo Rizzi is an unconventional entrepreneur with two decades of experience in Financial Services, constantly referred amongst the top executives in the industry. He spent 13 years at SWIFT – where he co-founded Innotribe, the innovation arm of the cooperative, launching the first global startup challenge.

Since 2013, he has a FinTech Investor and/or Venture Partner role with global VCs and CVCs (20+ deals, 5 exits) currently at Bamboo Capital Partners). In 2015, he co-founded FinTechStage (now FTSGroup.eu) – a platform for Investors and Innovators to boost FinTech innovation globally. In 2019, Matteo founded Timepledge.org a global initiative to foster financial inclusion and entrepreneurship.

The same year he launched Breaking Banks Europe (as the Executive Producer). He is the author of The FinTech Revolution and Talents & Rebels and fluent in 5 languages.

Ina is a distinguished professional with over 19 years’ experience in the Digital Commerce & Mobile Payment space, providing thought leadership in identifying key innovation and technology trends, initiating and driving the execution of new digital product initiatives, contributing to the next wave of growth in digital commerce and mobile payments and championing cross-border strategic growth initiatives for the Pan African payment ecosystem.

Over the course of his career, he was responsible for driving various digital strategic initiatives that has been launched in various markets across Africa. Ina has led the development of innovative platforms that facilitate Fraud Management, eCommerce, Agency Banking, Mobile Financial Services and Alternative Payment Methods. He has developed and executed a digital transformation strategy for the largest card scheme in Nigeria to launch the next generation Pan African digital payment infrastructure.

He is currently the Group Director of Digital Transformation at ARM Group where he is overseeing the execution of the Group’s Digital transformation strategy, helping the seven subsidiary companies in the Group drive their digital initiatives. He is also helping the Group facilitate external innovation by overseeing and running the Labs by ARM Start-up Accelerator Program.

He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business and an Executive Masters in Digital Transformation and Innovation Leadership.

Gbolahan Atoyebi is the Head, Enterprise Sales (Financial Services) at MainOne_, an Equinix Company. An experienced technology solutions Business Manager, Mr. Atoyebi is responsible for managing MainOne’s portfolio of clients in the Financial Service Industry, providing Account Management support in the adoption, deployment and outsourcing of technology services.

Chief Solution Architect, with more than 14 years of experience in the FinTech and VAS industry. Possess an extensive experience across most technologies having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Operations, Commercial, Strategy, Business Management, Sales and Marketing.

Involved in digital services, Mobile Money, Micro Lending, Mobile Payments and mobile banking roll out initiatives in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa giving him broad and deep insights on the industry climate, trends, consumer habits/behaviors and legal framework in the African region as well as product strategy.

General Manager of HUAWEI CLOUD Nigeria, with more than 10 years of experience in the ICT industry. Familiar with the digital transformation of the Fintech industry. Possess an extensive experience across most cloud technologies having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Strategy, Management, and Marketing.

Tunde is the founder and director of two (2) organisations in Nigeria – (1) Octasis – a SAS silver partner and reseller and cloud computing solutions provider, (2) Data Services Protection Limited (DSPL), a federal government licensed Data Protection Compliance Organisation (DPCO), where he manages all products offerings of these organisations which include Cloud Computing (IaaS, SaaS, etc.), Statistical Reporting, Data Management, Advanced Analytics, Cyber Security, Voice Automation Solutions in Nigerian languages and Data Protection Compliance services.

With professional experience spanning over 25 years working for some of the global FTSE 100 organisations, including Pfizer Pharmaceuticals – Sandwich, Kent (U.K), Glaxo SmithKline Ltd (U.K), Capital One Credit Cards U.K), Novo Nordisk (Denmark), Boehringer Ingelheim GmBH, Barclays Card (U.K), UCB Pharma (Belgium) amongst others. Tunde has led global projects in the areas of data management, advanced analytics, and reporting in these organisations.

He is the Convener of Association of Licensed Data Protection Compliance Organisations of Nigeria – ALDAPCON. He has served as member of some Federal Government committees in the areas of Data Protection and ICT including Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan Committee of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau, Focus Discission Group Committee for the Nigeria Data Protection Bill, 2022, etc.
Tunde is a budding amateur triathlon and an avid tenant camper.

Ayodele is a partner in the Corporate, Securities and Finance team at Banwo & Ighodalo. She has extensive experience covering Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance, M&A, Project Finance and Development, and Funds; and routinely provides transactional and general legal advisory services in these areas. Ayodele specialises in structuring optimal entry into the Nigerian market and has advised a number of international fintech clients on appropriate entry structures, and licensing as well as onshore bilateral and multijurisdictional fintech acquisitions.

He’s a Blockchain Consultant, founder and CEO of Kusuconsult, one of the first Blockchain consulting firm in Northern Nigeria (www.kusuconsult.com). He is also into community building, Blockchain content creation, and a Blockchain developer with knowledge and experience in designing and deploying blockchain Decentralized applications. He has worked for reputable Blockchain tech projects like Algorand, Polkadot, and an EVM compatible protocol like Moonbeam among others.

His passion for educating people on Blockchain technology and it’s application led him to set up a couple of Blockchain communities in Nigeria (Jos, Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Abuja, Katsina, Kano, Zaria, Lafia, Keffi and Maiduguri)

A Member of the founding Interswitch management team in 2002, Akeem has Over 22 years experience in the implementation and management of projects in the Financial Services sector; Information & Communications Technology, and the Oil & Gas industry.

Currently the Divisional CEO of one of the Payment Processing business division at Interswitch, Akeem is Responsible for some of the innovations driving the payments industry in Nigeria today.

Before joining Interswitch in 2002, he worked with Oildata Services Port Harcourt, and later with TELNET in a Senior Engineer role.

A Desmond Tutu fellow of the African Leadership Institute, Akeem is an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). He holds an MBA from the Lagos Business School of the Pan Atlantic University and a first-class degree in Electrical / Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin.

Jonah joined Interswitch in 2007 and has served the company in different capacities across the business. Responsible for overseeing SmartGov. CRSG Limited from 2012 till date as the Managing Director, he was appointed as the Chief Strategy Officer in 2014 and elevated to become the Divisional CEO for Industry Vertical Markets in April 2018.

Jonah has completed programs from the IESE Business School, Oxford University, and Wharton Business School. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Lagos Business School and a First degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

Sarah Idahosa is a Decentralized Finance Analyst and, a researcher who has been in the Blockchain Space for the past 3 years. Tutor and head of administration at Nirvana Academy have educated over 5000 people both directly and indirectly about decentralized finance, she is the Lead, Nigerian Community and Token Team, Mara. Sarah’s passion for blockchain education made her go forward to create a community called #WomenInDeFi where she and her team has educated over 400 females about Decentralized Finance and the Blockchain. She is a Blockchain Researcher for the newsletter, “Myth of Money” where she provides weekly updates on the blockchain space.

The CTO/Co-founder at Convexity is a technology entrepreneur and blockchain solutions architect with in-depth knowledge of blockchain technology, tokenization/token economy, and cryptocurrencies. He also has developed smart contracts on public and enterprise blockchains and has developed web2 and web3 applications. He is passionate about web3 and has over 15 years of experience in application development

Adejuwon leads Business Development for Binance Pay in Africa. He is charged with sales strategy and growing product utility.

Mohammed Bello popularly known as BELLOKANO is a serial entrepreneur in the northern part of Nigerian who actively contributed a lot in the Nigerian tech ecosystem and founded idcheck.ng & checkam a licensed NIMC KYC platform, Dansahu Keke ride hailing app, Health pay HMO, bellmonie POS agency (decentralized banking) BellBank BellBank MICROFINANCE (DIGITAL BANK) and many more. With an ultimate goal of making life more simpler leveraging on innovative technology.

With over 8years experience in Fintech, insurtech , Crypto, telecommunications. Gloria has worked across multiple functions; expanding businesses and significantly contributing to the technology ecosystem in Nigeria and abroad. Gloria is currently in charge of the Partnership and Business Development at Africhange, focusing on global expansion and revenue growth.

She started her career as a product manager and transitioned  into partnership and sales.

She has worked in various organization expanding them to the EMEA and APAC region

She aims to help founders reach their full potential through acquisitions, expansions, revenue growth and fund raising. Gloria is a strong advocate for women in technology and currently mentors young women in product management, and partnerships.