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Yele Bademosi
Yele Bademosi Director Binance Labs Yele Bademosi, Director at Binance Labs.  Based in Lagos, Nigeria has a personal mission to accelerate Africa's transition into a sustainable and developed economy by leveraging innovation, capital and policy At Binance Labs, Yele's role is to invest and support blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and entrepreneurs whilst developing the nascent...
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Elizabeth Rosiello
Elizabeth Rossiello CEO & Founder AZA Finance Elizabeth Rossiello is the CEO and founder of global payments and FX fintech AZA Finance (previously known as BitPesa). Founded in Nairobi in 2013, AZA Finance empowers companies to move money, exchange currencies, make payments and settle easily across all major African and G20 currencies. AZA Finance was...
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Maria Keshinro Rotilu
Maria Keshinro Rotilu General Manager Branch International  Maria Keshinro Rotilu is currently the General Manager of Branch International in West Africa, a leading financial technology company with millions of users and has disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars in loans globally. Branch has offices in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, India, and Mexico. Maria previously served as...
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Simeon Ononobi
Simeon Ononobi CEO and Co-Founder ThankUCash Simeon Ononobi is the current CEO and co-founder of ThankUCash, a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African Banks and Businesses.   ThankUCash has just concluded the integration into over 177,000 payment terminals in Nigeria. ThankUCash serves businesses of all sizes - from startups, small retailers, big bucks stores...
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Obi Ozor
Obi Ozor Co-Founder & CEO Kobo360 Mr. Obi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kobo360, a technology company focusing on logistics. Obi leads the product development and execution team which is responsible for powering the supply chain of more than two thousand businesses including Nestle, Maersk Line, Dangote, DHL Global Forwarding, UPS Supply Chain, Shoprite,...
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Anie Akpe
Anie Akpe  Founder of African Women In Tech (AWIT) Anie Akpe is a trailblazer in the mortgage and banking industry. In addition to leading the mortgage operations at a Financial Institution, Akpe promotes diversity in business and advocates for entrepreneurship and tech innovation through her role on several boards of directors. Akpe is a business...
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Kenza Lahlou
Kenza Lahlou Co-founder & Managing Partner Outlierz Ventures Kenza Lahlou is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Outlierz Ventures, a seed and early-stage pan-African VC fund, based out of Morocco. The fund invests in tech-enabled companies solving a real problem in key industries (including fintech, insurtech, logistics, healthtech, agritech, and logistics/distribution) across Africa. Kenza started...
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Selma Ribica
Selma Ribica Co-Founder & Managing Partner, First Circle Capital   Selma Ribica is a Fintech entrepreneur and VC investor. Founder of First Circle, a venture capital fund and a global community, backing FinTech companies in key African tech hubs. A veteran of the fintech industry, Selma founded an award-winning money transfer service Lebara Money and...
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Erick Yong
Erick Yong CEO & Co-founder GreenTec Capital  As CEO and co-founder of GreenTec Capital GmbH, his helped the company as one of Germany’s most active investor’s into African start-ups. His extensive private sector and international investment experience are imprinted on the company’s unique investment model for African start-ups and SMEs. Erick gained extensive international experience...
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Chijioke Dozie
Chijioke Dozie CEO OneFi & Carbon Chijioke Dozie is the CEO of online consumer finance platform OneFi  and Carbon, the leading Nigerian lending platform app, which after only two years on the market has been downloaded by over 1 million users and recently secured a $5.5mn debt facility from Lendable. OneFi is also the first African...
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