Ayowole Ayodele

CEO Fincra

Ayowole leads a world-class team at Fincra in building a secure payment gateway for global businesses, platforms, corporates & fintechs operating across the globe. Passionate about developing a better global payment system for today’s digital world, Ayowole is convinced that Africa has enormous potential to become the new frontier of this financial opportunity. He has a background in Finance from Stanbic IBTC Bank Nigeria, where he was a key member of the Credit Risk Management Team, and a growing career spanning 7+years.

Prior to Fincra, he co-founded Quidax, one of Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges where he led the Product, Business, Treasury & Customer Success teams. Over the years, Ayowole has recognised the difficulties that businesses face with receiving payments across Africa and Europe and he has remained committed to lowering the barriers and solving the challenges. He is passionate about the Fintech space and he loves football.