Top Fintech Voices, an trade media platform and digital publication, has launched its choice of Africa’s most distinguished and influential fintech personalities, highlighting the founders, regulators, innovators, operators, and rising voices shaping the way forward for fintech on the continent.
Among this 12 months’s cohort of 28 fintech specialists, 20 are fintech founders and agency leaders, representing organizations together with Hubtel, MassivePay, and TapTap Send. These professionals are acknowledged for his or her drive, management, and intensive experience in the house, driving innovation in cross-border funds, monetary inclusion, and digital banking infrastructure all through Africa.
Romeo Bugyei, Managing Director, IT Consortium
Romeo Bugyei is the Managing Director of IT Consortium, a fintech providers expertise options supplier from Ghana. Bugyei has over 20 years of government management expertise in consulting, insurance coverage and expertise areas, contributing to the success and expertise transformation of many corporations, 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, an organization headquartered in Dubai constructing the infrastructure that permits banks, cellular cash operators, fintech startups, marketplaces and different digital platforms to deploy credit score, financial savings and different monetary merchandise at scale.
Quainoo is an achieved banking and fintech skilled, bringing over a decade of expertise managing merchandise, tasks, and partnerships inside the monetary providers trade. Prior to _able, he served as General Manager, Africa Operations and Partnerships of JUMO in Ghana, overseeing in-market operations and banking 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 platform. At Hubtel, he’s chargeable for coordinating relationships with essential companions and overseeing normal operations.
Apenteng combines entrepreneurial drive with business-management expertise to drive income and market share.
Isaac Tetteh, Founder and CEO, MassivePay Ghana
Isaac Tetteh serves as Founder and CEO of MassivePay Ghana, a worldwide funds community offering payments-as-a-service (PaaS) for peer-to-peer (P2P) enterprise homeowners in Ghana.
A seasoned, results-oriented senior banking skilled, Tetteh has greater than 20 years of expertise with broad experience throughout the sector. He is understood for constructing and guiding groups successfully and for revitalizing underdeveloped companies to realize sturdy outcomes.
Abioye Oyetunji, Founder and CEO, FXKudi
Abioye Oyetunji is the Founder and CEO of FXKudi, a digital cost and remittance platform targeted on simplifying cross-border cash transfers throughout Africa. Oyetunji additionally serves as a Product Manager of VTMONEY, a cellular cash firm from Nigeria, and CEO of Clozar Group, a logistics and expertise firm based mostly in Ghana.
Oyetunji is a visionary chief with a confirmed monitor report in steering organizations towards success by strategic planning and efficient administration. He is expert in constructing cohesive groups, driving innovation, and enhancing operational effectivity to realize enterprise aims.
Alex Bram, Co-Founder and CEO, Hubtel
Alex Bram is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hubtel. A tech entrepreneur based mostly in Ghana, Bram has led Hubtel’s progress from begin to date with zero exterior financing of any variety. He has additionally efficiently led Hubtel’s pivot from a number one SMS messaging supplier into Ghana’s main cost providers supplier with an increasing market share in the rising quick-commerce trade.
Tenu Awoonor, Founder and CEO, The Blu Penguin
Tenu Awoonor is the Founder and CEO of The Blu Penguin, a Pan-African cost firm based mostly in Ghana. He is a world enterprise government with over 18 years of expertise in each the personal and public sectors with a powerful monitor report of success throughout telecommunications, expertise, and monetary providers.
Prior to The Blu Penguin, Awoonor was the Executive Vice President of Strategy at Airtel in Nigeria, and served because the CMO of Millicom International Cellular the place he was chargeable for turning across the enterprise by delivering double digit top-line progress, EBITDA and market share progress earlier than departing for public service.
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 cost service supplier. Bansah performs a number one position in the design and growth of the corporate’s options. He additionally led the startup’s first capital elevating in 2021 when it raised $1 million from enterprise capital agency Oasis Africa Venture Capital.
Prior to AppsNmobile Solutions, Bansah was a Business Development Manager, Francophone West Africa, for the Australian Trade Commission. This position noticed him promote Australian companies particularly inside the mining 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 firm that gives digital cost processing, transaction switching, and different fintech providers to banks and monetary establishments.
Jacquaye is a serial entrepreneur pushed by difficult alternatives and pioneering roles. His imaginative and prescient for Clydestone is to determine a Pan-African group with world attain, delivering built-in info and communication expertise (ICT) and monetary providers options.
Sebastian Quansah, Managing Director, Ghana, Fido
Sebastian Quansah is the Managing Director, Ghana, and Group COO of Fido, a Ghanaian digital lender targeted on shopper and micro-business lending.
Quansah is a seasoned skilled with experience in administration, enterprise operations and technique. With over seven years of expertise in the monetary and fintech sectors, he brings confirmed management capabilities, sturdy analytical expertise, and complete data spanning monetary product growth and repair supply.
John Apea, CEO, eTranzact Ghana
John Apea is the CEO of eTranzact Ghana, a fintech and digital funds firm that gives digital cost processing, cellular cash, playing cards, and different cost options to companies, banks, and shoppers. He additionally serves because the Head of Mission for the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, a physique created by 54 Commonwealth Heads of Government to advertise Trade and Investment in the Commonwealth.
Apea is a seasoned skilled with intensive expertise throughout enterprise, finance, politics, communications, expertise, and diplomacy. Previously, he labored because the Senior Strategist to Data and Technology giants SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica and was 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 firm that gives banking and treasury providers. Ghanney is a dynamic fintech government with intensive expertise in overseas change, monetary providers, and enterprise growth throughout Africa and North America.
Prior to WeWire, Ghanney was the Country Manager of Yellow Card Financial, serving to scale operations to over 150,000 customers and greater than US$20 million in buying and selling quantity, and Head of Business of Liquid Financial Services, the place he spearheaded enterprise growth and market growth initiatives.
Jones Amegbor, Founder and CEO, PayAngel
Jones Amegbor is the Founder and CEO of PayAngel, a UK-headquartered fintech firm 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 providers for varied shoppers since 2006.
Amegbor has a powerful background in treasury finance, company finance, and monetary danger administration, in addition to a certification as a Chartered and Certified Accountant.
Abdul-Jaleel Hussein, CEO, Affinity Ghana
Abdul-Jaleel Hussein is the CEO of Affinity Ghana, digital banking platform headquartered in Ghana offering reasonably priced and accessible monetary providers to underserved and unbanked people, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
Hussein is an skilled C-level government with nearly 20 years of expertise in constructing and scaling companies inside massive organizations and startups. He brings experience in enterprise growth, enterprise evaluation, product administration, technique, fintech, monetary inclusion, agribusiness financing, company and MSME banking.
Thomas Baafi, Founder and CEO, Bsystems
Thomas Baafi is the Founder and CEO of Bsystems, an African software program multinational based mostly in Ghana that gives monetary and digital infrastructure.
Over the previous 20+ years, Baafi’s dynamic management has steered Bsystems to pioneer cutting-edge IT enterprise options that meet each present and future wants of enterprises throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mary Boateng Coleman, Founder and Non-Executive Director, Brassica Pay
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Mary Boateng Coleman is the Founder and Non-Executive Director of Brassica Pay, a licensed digital cost service supplier and fintech platform based mostly in Ghana that facilitates safe digital transactions for people and companies. She beforehand served as CEO of Brassica Pay, bringing her intensive expertise in monetary providers, strategic enterprise growth and entrepreneurship to the corporate’s management.
An achieved entrepreneur and enterprise chief, Boateng Coleman has over 20 years of expertise spanning monetary providers, danger administration, strategic enterprise growth and entrepreneurship. She is especially keen about innovation and monetary inclusion and has a powerful curiosity in leveraging digital instruments and monetary expertise to broaden entry to monetary alternatives.
Darryl Okay. Mawutor Abraham, Growth Director, Africa, TapTap Send
Darryl Okay. Mawutor Abraham is the Growth Director for Africa at TapTap Send, a world cellular cash switch app.
Abraham is a dynamic skilled with various expertise in growing and launching new merchandise, devising and implementing sturdy methods, in addition to constructing and strengthening relationships with groups, stakeholders and shoppers. He is expert at growing long-term skilled relationships and collaborating with stakeholders in any respect ranges and government leaders to develop and implement sturdy progress methods.
Louis Amenyo, Founder and CEO, Eganow
Louis Amenyo is the Founder and CEO of Eganow, a fintech firm offering digital cost and monetary providers platforms for people and companies, primarily targeted on Africa. Amenyo can be the Founder and CEO of Teksol, an enterprise fintech firm serving the monetary providers sector.
Amenyo has greater than ten years of expertise in the tech trade and software program engineering, growth, system evaluation and design, info safety, database administration, and knowledge analytics. Prior to Eganow and TekSol, he consulted for the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, on well being financing 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 cost gateway for companies. At Payaza, Anwelle is chargeable for driving strategic growth, regulatory engagement, and scalable cost options.
Anwelle is an skilled gross sales and distribution skilled with a confirmed monitor report in the event and implementation of market share-winning gross sales methods in the telecommunications, cellular monetary providers and fintech industries.
Prior to Payaza, he held senior management roles together with CEO of FINCRA Ghana and Country Manager, Ghana, at DPO Group, with intensive expertise throughout telecom and banking establishments equivalent 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 mortgage capital together with enterprise growth coaching and consulting providers. In this position, Kollo is chargeable for main innovation and fintech technique with duty spanning monetary expertise, lending infrastructure, automation, knowledge structure, digital transformation, and new-product growth.
Kollo is a seasoned innovation strategist and expertise government targeted on turning ideas into usable methods. His work connects enterprise technique, expertise, operations, and buyer progress so organizations throughout each trade can transfer quicker from thought to implementation.
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