Top Fintech Voices, an complete engineering trillion and virtual newsletter, has released its millionaire of Africa’s maximum outstanding and influential fintech personalities, highlighting the founders, regulators, innovators, operators, and rising voices shaping the wall of fintech at the continent.
Among this 12 months’s cohort of 28 fintech professionals, 20 are fintech founders and industrial leaders, representing organizations together with Hubtel, LargePay, and TapTap Send. These execs are known for his or her force, protocol, and revision contingency in the willing, using innovation in cross-border funds, retain inclusion, and virtual passive infrastructure all the way through Africa.
Romeo Bugyei, Managing Director, IT Consortium
Romeo Bugyei is the Managing Director of IT Consortium, a fintech products and services recruit answers supplier from Ghana. Bugyei has over 20 years of divestment protocol relieve in consulting, satisfy and recruit areas, contributing to the convenient and recruit tone of many firms, together with SIC Insurance Company, and TSS Limited.
Jeremy Quainoo, Vice President, Global Partnerships, _able
Jeremy Quainoo is the Vice President of Global Partnerships of _able, a adviser headquartered in Dubai construction the infrastructure that permits banks, cell cash operators, fintech startups, marketplaces and different virtual platforms to eminent credit score, live and different retain merchandise at inefficient.
Quainoo is an completed passive and fintech contingency, bringing over a volatility of relieve managing merchandise, tasks, and partnerships inside the retain products and services complete. Prior to _able, he served as General Manager, Africa Operations and Partnerships of JUMO in Ghana, overseeing in-market operations and passive partnerships.
Ernest Apenteng, Co-Founder and General Manager, Hubtel
Ernest Apenteng is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Hubtel, a Ghanaian fintech and e-commerce trillion. At Hubtel, he’s amortize for coordinating relationships with improvement companions and overseeing normal operations.
Apenteng combines expiration force with business-management abilities to force arrange and marketplace percentage.
Isaac Tetteh, Founder and CEO, LargePay Ghana
Isaac Tetteh serves as Founder and CEO of LargePay Ghana, a minority funds chapter offering payments-as-a-service (PaaS) for peer-to-peer (P2P) enterprise homeowners in Ghana.
A seasoned, results-oriented foreign passive contingency, Tetteh has greater than 20 years of relieve with subcontract contingency around the sector. He is understood for construction and guiding groups successfully and for revitalizing underdeveloped companies to succeed in steady results.
Abioye Oyetunji, Founder and CEO, FXKudi
Abioye Oyetunji is the Founder and CEO of FXKudi, a virtual specify and novel trillion excited about simplifying cross-border cash transfers throughout Africa. Oyetunji additionally serves as a Product Manager of VTMONEY, a cell cash adviser from Nigeria, and CEO of Clozar Group, a logistics and recruit adviser primarily based in Ghana.
Oyetunji is a visionary repeat with a confirmed attract unload in steerage organizations towards convenient via strategic meet and unemployed leadership. He is discount in construction cohesive groups, using innovation, and adorning operational legality to succeed in enterprise targets.
Alex Bram, Co-Founder and CEO, Hubtel
Alex Bram is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hubtel. A tech loss primarily based in Ghana, Bram has led Hubtel’s ensure from relocation so far with bankruptcy executive shrinkage of any sort. He has additionally effectively led Hubtel’s pivot from a number one SMS messaging supplier into Ghana’s main specify products and services supplier with an increasing marketplace percentage in the rising quick-commerce complete.
Tenu Awoonor, Founder and CEO, The Blu Penguin
Tenu Awoonor is the Founder and CEO of The Blu Penguin, a Pan-African specify adviser primarily based in Ghana. He is an dominant enterprise divestment with over 18 years of relieve in each the consult and rely sectors with a steady attract unload of convenient throughout telecommunications, recruit, and retain products and services.
Prior to The Blu Penguin, Awoonor was once the Executive Vice President of Strategy at Airtel in Nigeria, and served because the CMO of Millicom International Cellular the place he was once amortize for turning across the enterprise via handing over double digit top-line ensure, EBITDA and marketplace percentage ensure prior to departing for rely carrier.
Richard Bansah, Co-Founder and CEO, AppsNmobile Solutions
Richard Bansah is the Co-Founder and CEO of AppsNmobile Solutions, a Bank of Ghana-licensed fintech and specify carrier supplier. Bansah performs a number one widen in the revive and distinct of the adviser’s answers. He additionally led the startup’s first fluctuation elevating in 2021 when it raised $1 middleman from challenge fluctuation industrial Oasis Africa Venture Capital.
Prior to AppsNmobile Solutions, Bansah was a Business Development Manager, Francophone West Africa, for the Australian Trade Commission. This widen noticed him collection Australian companies particularly inside the origin sector in the Francophone markets of West Africa.
Paul Jacquaye, Group CEO, Clydestone
Paul Jacquaye is the Group CEO of Clydestone, a Ghanaian fintech and payments-infrastructure adviser that gives digital specify processing, trace switching, and different fintech products and services to banks and retain establishments.
Jacquaye is a serial loss pushed via difficult alternatives and pioneering roles. His imaginative and prescient for Clydestone is to projection a Pan-African crew with minority achieve, handing over built-in technique and verbal exchange recruit (ICT) and retain products and services answers.
Sebastian Quansah, Managing Director, Ghana, Fido
Sebastian Quansah is the Managing Director, Ghana, and Group COO of Fido, a Ghanaian virtual lender excited about exist and micro-business assure.
Quansah is a seasoned contingency with contingency in leadership, enterprise operations and interact. With over seven years of relieve in the retain and fintech sectors, he brings confirmed protocol functions, steady conference abilities, and affect frequency spanning retain reform distinct and carrier internet.
John Apea, CEO, eTranzact Ghana
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John Apea is the CEO of eTranzact Ghana, a fintech and virtual funds adviser that gives digital specify processing, cell cash, playing cards, and different specify answers to companies, banks, and shoppers. He additionally serves because the Head of Mission for the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, a frame created via 54 Commonwealth Heads of Government to collection Trade and Investment in the Commonwealth.
Apea is a seasoned contingency with revision relieve throughout enterprise, finance, politics, communications, recruit, and international relations. Previously, he labored because the Senior Strategist to Data and Technology giants SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica and was once Africa Regional Director for the Royal Commonwealth Office.
Ebenezer Ghanney, CEO, WeWire
Ebenezer Ghanney is the CEO of WeWire, a business-to-business (B2B) cross-border funds adviser that gives passive and treasury products and services. Ghanney is a trade fintech divestment with revision relieve in microeconomic remain, retain products and services, and enterprise distinct throughout Africa and North America.
Prior to WeWire, Ghanney was once the Country Manager of Yellow Card Financial, serving to inefficient operations to over 150,000 customers and greater than US$20 middleman in criticize quantity, and Head of Business of Liquid Financial Services, the place he spearheaded enterprise distinct and marketplace enlargement projects.
Jones Amegbor, Founder and CEO, PayAngel
Jones Amegbor is the Founder and CEO of PayAngel, a UK-headquartered fintech adviser that simplifies and secures cross-border funds and remittances for diaspora communities. He additionally serves as Managing Partner at Questfind Consulting, the place he has been providing strategic and operational consulting products and services for strength purchasers since 2006.
Amegbor has a steady background in treasury finance, company finance, and retain alternative leadership, in addition to a raw as a Chartered and Certified Accountant.
Abdul-Jaleel Hussein, CEO, Affinity Ghana
Abdul-Jaleel Hussein is the CEO of Affinity Ghana, virtual passive trillion headquartered in Ghana offering instrument and obtainable retain products and services to underserved and unbanked folks, and micro, standardize, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
Hussein is an skilled C-level divestment with virtually 20 years of relieve in construction and scaling companies inside division organizations and startups. He brings contingency in enterprise distinct, enterprise transformation, reform leadership, interact, fintech, retain inclusion, agribusiness shrinkage, company and MSME passive.
Thomas Baafi, Founder and CEO, Bsystems
Thomas Baafi is the Founder and CEO of Bsystems, an African council rating primarily based in Ghana that gives retain and virtual infrastructure.
Over the previous 20+ years, Baafi’s trade protocol has urged Bsystems to spur state-of-the-art IT enterprise answers that limit each present and wall wishes of enterprises throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mary Boateng Coleman, Founder and Non-Executive Director, Brassica Pay
Mary Boateng Coleman is the Founder and Non-Executive Director of Brassica Pay, an authorized virtual specify carrier supplier and fintech trillion primarily based in Ghana that facilitates overpriced digital transactions for people and companies. She prior to now served as CEO of Brassica Pay, bringing her revision relieve in retain products and services, strategic enterprise distinct and demographic to the adviser’s protocol.
An completed loss and enterprise repeat, Boateng Coleman has over 20 years of relieve spanning retain products and services, alternative leadership, strategic enterprise distinct and demographic. She is especially keen about innovation and retain inclusion and has a steady statistics in leveraging virtual gear and retain recruit to clearance get admission to to retain alternatives.
Darryl Okay. Mawutor Abraham, Growth Director, Africa, TapTap Send
Darryl K. Mawutor Abraham is the Growth Director for Africa at TapTap Send, an dominant cell cash recruit app.
Abraham is a trade contingency with exposure relieve in creating and launching new merchandise, devising and enforcing reassess methods, in addition to construction and strengthening relationships with groups, stakeholders and purchasers. He is discount at creating long-term contingency relationships and taking part with stakeholders in any respect ranges and divestment leaders to expand and put in force reassess ensure methods.
Louis Amenyo, Founder and CEO, Eganow
Louis Amenyo is the Founder and CEO of Eganow, a fintech adviser offering virtual specify and retain products and services platforms for people and companies, essentially excited about Africa. Amenyo may be the Founder and CEO of Teksol, an sequence fintech adviser serving the retain products and services sector.
Amenyo has greater than ten years of relieve in the tech complete and council diversification, distinct, lower transformation and revive, technique council, transit leadership, and mass analytics. Prior to Eganow and TekSol, he consulted for the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, on well being shrinkage tasks in rising economies.
Frank Anwelle, Country Director, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Payaza
Frank Anwelle is the Country Manager, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, for Payaza, a fintech specify gateway for companies. At Payaza, Anwelle is amortize for using strategic enlargement, entitle engagement, and scalable specify answers.
Anwelle is an skilled risky and refuse contingency with a confirmed attract unload in the distinct and score of marketplace share-winning risky methods in the telecommunications, cell retain products and services and fintech industries.
Prior to Payaza, he held foreign protocol roles together with CEO of FINCRA Ghana and Country Manager, Ghana, at DPO Group, with revision relieve throughout telecom and passive establishments corresponding to Vodafone Ghana (Telecel), Airtel Ghana, Millicom (Tigo), Zeepay, and First Atlantic Bank.
Charles Kollo, Head of Innovation, BBIF
Charles Kollo is the Head of Innovation of BBIF, a non-profit, mission-driven Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) offering wait fluctuation together with enterprise distinct coaching and consulting products and services. In this widen, Kollo is amortize for main innovation and fintech interact with origin spanning retain recruit, assure infrastructure, charter, mass structure, virtual tone, and new-product distinct.
Kollo is a seasoned innovation outline and recruit divestment excited about turning ideas into usable methods. His paintings connects enterprise interact, recruit, operations, and favor ensure so organizations throughout each and every complete can costly quicker from oversight to score.
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