Stamp Nigeria
At Stamp we track over 100,000 Nigerian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Nigeria based Director operating in the Financial Services space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Winston Osuchukwu
Managing Director, Nigeria of Migo
Winston Osuchukwu is the managing director of Nigeria at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Jason Mycroft
Business Development Director of VANSO
Mr. Jason Mycroft holds a degree in Japanese from London University. He initially embarked on a career as an analyst and has over 10 years Business development experience in the dotcom sphere, specialising in e-commerce start-ups; as well as helping to develop a range of web-based applications and business solutions for a variety of industry sectors.
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About VANSO: VANSO is a software and telecoms company that delivers solutions throughout the financial services industry.
Idris Mohammed
Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa team of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Ngozi Dozie
Co-founder & Managing Director of Carbon
Ngozi Dozie is the Co-Founder of Carbon. He has an MBA in Strategy at The Wharton School and a MSc Computation from Oxford University.
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About Carbon, One Credit, Paylater: Carbon ignites personal growth through financial innovation
Gabriel Edgal
CEO & Managing Director of First Atlantic Bank
Gabriel Edgal is the managing director/chief executive officer of First Atlantic Bank Limited; and charged with the responsibility of strategically positioning the bank to achieve its corporate objectives. He is an astute and seasoned banker with over 23 years experience, and a comprehensive understanding of how to do business and succeed in Africa. He holds a Bachelor of engineering degree in civil engineering and Masters in business administration. He has been well exposed, during the course of his career, to policy formulation and corporate governance, strategic planning, mergers and acquisition, credit, relationship management at both corporate and retail levels, branch management, performance management systems, balance sheet management, proprietary trading and treasury sales, human resource management, cash management, structured trade, multilateral financing, private banking, correspondent banking and asset management, to name but a few. With excellent performance track records, he has in the last seven years held various key management and executive roles including MD/CEO of Africa for a large Pan-African bank, United Bank for Africa Plc – providing strategic direction for 18 African countries, and acquiring vast experience in dealing with policy makers, key industry leaders, and regulatory agencies locally, regionally and internationally. He also was the MD/CEO UBA Ghana Ltd, where he steered the bank to unprecedented profitability. He held divers senior management positions at Ecobank Nigeria Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc and Capital Bank International Ltd.
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About First Atlantic Bank: First Atlantic Bank offers full scale banking services designed to meet the diverse needs of our esteemed clients.
Jay Alabraba
Co-founder & Director Business Development of Paga
Jay is a co-founder of Pagatech. Jay has over a decade of work experience spanning the High-Tech, Pharma and Financial Services sectors. Before joining Pagatech, he managed a Mergers & Acquisitions investment banking team at BGL Plc in Lagos, Nigeria. Jay began his career as a Program Manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, where he led a cross-functional team that received several patent awards for innovative work in the anti-piracy and data protection arena. In 2004, he accepted a fellowship in Global Marketing at Eli Lilly & Co., a US-based pharmaceutical company. In that role, he managed projects for the Neuroscience drug marketing units in North America and Europe. Jay joined Goldman Sachs as an MBA summer intern in 2006, and rejoined the firm as a full-time Investment Banking Associate in 2007. Jay received his Bachelors degree (cum laude) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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About Paga: Paga is a mobile payment company building an ecosystem to enable people digitally send and receive money, creating simple financial access.
Tope Adeniyi
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of AXA Mansard
Tope joined AXA Mansard in December 2006 as a Senior Manager in charge of Technology and Retail Processing Group. He became the Divisional Director, Operations and Technology Group in 2009 and was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Mansard Health Limited in 2013. Tope started his career as a software & training manager with Management Support Systems. He had a brief stint with Capital Express Insurance as a system analyst. He moved to UAC Nigeria Limited where he worked in various capacities including systems network manager as well as national planner for the Mr. Biggs Division. Tope is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with (ISC2) USA and Certified in Oracle Database Administration. He is a graduate of the prestigious Advanced Management Programme of the Lagos Business School, member of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London and has attended several trainings abroad including SAP(Germany); OracleOpenworld(US); Airas(London) and internship at ING Vysya Bank, India.
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About AXA Mansard: AXA Mansard is a member of the AXA Group, the worldwide leader in insurance and asset management.
Dapo Akisanya
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of AXA Mansard
Prior to joining AXA Mansard, his career included about 10 years with Asset and Resource Management Company Limited (ARM Group), where he served in various capacities. His last role at ARM was as Executive Director, ARM Securities Limited, where he was responsible for managing the business. Previously, he served as Executive Director (Technical) at ARM Pension Managers (PFA) Limited, having oversight of Investment Management, Business Development & Relationship Management, and Risk Management. His experience at ARM also included serving as Head, Investment Management and Research, ARM Investment Managers. Dapo was a member of several committees constituted to ensure the effectiveness and growth of the firm’s fund management business, and that guided the successful launch of various ARM products. These investment committees include those of ARM Discovery Fund, ARM Aggressive Growth Fund, ARM Ethical Fund, and ARM Properties PLC. He also represented ARM on the board of Briscoe Properties Limited as a non-executive director. Dapo comes on board with diverse experience in financial services. Other organizations he has served include Howarth Dafinone (Chartered Accountants), formerly D. O. Dafinone and Co., Alliance Consulting, Agusto and Co. Limited, Citibank Nigeria Limited, where he spent almost six years, and Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC. Dapo holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. He is also an alumnus of International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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About AXA Mansard: AXA Mansard is a member of the AXA Group, the worldwide leader in insurance and asset management.
Adedayo Amzat
Group Managing Director of Zedcrest Capital Limited
Saheed Adedayo Amzat is the founder of the Zedcrest Capital Group, a securities dealing and proprietary investment firm. He is also the founder of Zedvance Finance limited, a leading Consumer lending fintech institution in Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Ilorin of with a degree in Industrial Chemistry. He also holds an MBA (Management & Accounting) from Obafemi Awolowo University. Saheed holds the prestigious CFA charter from the CFA Institute. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management (ICA) and a Fellow & Member of Faculty of the Institute of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers (IAPM).
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About Zedcrest Capital Limited, Zedvance Finance Limited: Financial markets, Proprietary Investments & Investment Management
Kola Masha
Founder and Managing Director of Babban Gona
Kola is the Founder and Managing Director of Babban Gona. He holds the same position at Doreo Partners, an agriculture focused, African impact investing firm. Prior to founding Doreo and Babban Gona, Kola was the Managing Director and CEO of a major subsidiary in the Notore Group, one of Nigeria’s leading agricultural conglomerates, where he raised US$24 million to develop an integrated agricultural trading, production and processing business. Furthermore, he led the development and execution of Notore’s commercial strategy across West and Central Africa, preparing the company to sell one-million tons of fertilizer and establish a modern seed business. Finally, he led the corporate finance organization, raising US$130 Million in equity and restructuring US$360 Million in debt. Kola brings significant leadership experience in VC, corporate finance, business development, marketing and operations, across four continents with multiple global companies, including GE and Abiomed. Kola holds an MBA (Honors) from Harvard and Masters in Mechanical Engineering (Distinction) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.
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About Babban Gona: It delivers low-cost agriculture inputs, financial services and training to a franchise network of smallholder maize and rice farmers.
Dave Uduanu
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Pensions
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About Sigma Pensions: Sigma Pensions is a pension fund administration platform.
Ibrahim Balarabe
Executive Director Technical / Head, Customer Relationship Management Department of Sigma Pensions
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About Sigma Pensions: Sigma Pensions is a pension fund administration platform.
Awolowo Moses
Director of ORide Business of OPay
Awolowo Moses is a co-founder of Gokada.
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About OPay: OPay is a company that enables users to accomplish more with their money by providing smart financial services.
Martin Esson Benjamin
Director of Enterprise Group
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About Enterprise Group: First insurance company to be publicly listed in Ghana.
John Obaro
Managing Director/Founder of SystemSpecs
John Obaro is a distinguished alumnus of both Ahmadu Bello University, University of Lagos, and the Chief Executive Program (CEP3) of Lagos Business School. He has served at various times on the Boards of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Governing Council of the National ICT Incubation Program (iDea), and many more. He is a fellow of the Center for African Policy Development and Research, Glasgow, Scotland; a Fellow of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS); an ex-member of the Governing Council of Computers Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN) – the highest industry practice regulatory body; and immediate past 1st Vice President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON). John Obaro was recently recognised with the honour of Leadership in Technology at the 2016 African Achievement Awards in Scotland and also recognised as the ICT Software Personality of the Year 2016 at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Award, in addition to other numerous indigenous and international awards he has received over the years. John Obaro’s successful entrepreneurial adventure in software development architecture has attracted and continues to attract attention from both local and international quarters. The prestigious Lagos Business School (LBS) of the Pan-Atlantic University has written two case studies on SystemSpecs while many newspapers, magazines and journals have also featured him at one time or the other.
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About SystemSpecs: SystemSpecs is a software house with a focus on providing the most qualitative Human Capital Management and Financial software solutions.
Shuaib Audu
Executive Director of Stanbic IBTC Bank
Audu has about 15 years extensive Investment Banking experience in Treasury/Global Markets, Venture Capital, Proprietary and Principal Investments; and Investment Management expertise in both the pension and non-pension businesses. He was formerly the head of the investment management division of the company where he was responsible for formulating and executing investment strategies for the several portfolios managed by SIAML. He was also the pioneer head of investment management at Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited. As an Executive Director in SIAML, Mr. Audu currently oversees the Investment Management and Information Technology portfolios of the Company. Mr. Audu was appointed to the board of SIAML on 17 June 2013. He is also a Director of Stanbic IBTC Investments Limited and Stanbic IBTC Ventures Limited and has broad experience across various subsidiaries within the Stanbic IBTC Group.
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About Stanbic IBTC Bank: Stanbic IBTC Bank is a leading provider of integrated financial services, pensions and wealth management products.
DR DAPO MAJEKODUNMI
Chairman , Board of Directors of STRATEGIC OUTSOURCING LIMITED
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Fidelis Oditah
Director of Vetiva
Fidelis was educated at the Universities of Lagos and Oxford and is qualified in Nigerian and English law. He began his legal career at Oxford University where he taught before going into full-time commercial practice in the City of London. He is a Queen’s Counsel (QC) in England and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He set up ODITAH, a private practice, and has advised many businesses on various aspects of Nigerian commercial law and practice. Fidelis is also currently a director of Vetiva Capital Management, Vestor Properties and the Ngozi Oditah Foundation.
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About Vetiva: Vetiva Capital Management Limited is a Pan-African Financial Services Company incorporated in Nigeria and duly regulated and registered
