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 CEO’ operating in the Financial Services space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Oluwatomi Solanke
Co- Founder/CEO of Trove
Oluwatomi Solanke is Co Founder & CEO at Trove
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About Trove: Trove allows you invest in publicly traded stocks,cryptocurrency assets & bonds from a click of a button
Tomilola Adejana
Co-founder and CEO of Bankly
Tomilola Adejana is co-founder and CEO at Bankly. In 2005, she went to University of Lagos and took bachelor of science in physiology. Also, she attended S P Jain School of Global Management for her master’s degree in finance, investment banking and wealth management.
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About Bankly: Bankly is a cash digitisation savings product that allows users top up their wallet using vouchers.
Denis O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer of VANSO
Mr. Denis O’Brien is a European Studies graduate from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. He has over 15 years telecommunications experience and started his professional career with Vanco Euronet. Denis worked as a technical consultant on Wide Area Networking technology before joining MCI Worldcom (now Verizon). At MCI, he was the principal consultant for Africa related projects and advised multi-national corporates and Government agencies on their telecommunication requirements for Africa. Denis was born in Nigeria and returned in 2005 to establish VANSO Nigeria Limited.
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About VANSO: VANSO is a software and telecoms company that delivers solutions throughout the financial services industry.
John Oluranti Oke
Co-Founder and CEO of Wallet.ng
John Oluranti Oke is a software engineer from Nigeria. He previously co-founded Ngfeeds.com, a news aggregating platform that uses pattern matching algorithms to get news, gossips, and content every minute from the most visited websites in Nigeria, categorizes and delivers the resulting content to users over a website. He founded a software development company (Geeks’14 Consulting Limited) that has serviced and consulted for clients all over Nigeria including Al-Hikmah University, NES and Interswitch, a leading provider of innovative financial services in Nigeria. He was a consulting software engineer on Alat. While working for Suregifts as a senior software engineer, he helped build the first version of the SureRemit app, built and scaled the company’s infrastructure to service three countries at the time, Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda. He led a successful integration between Suregifts and Safaricom’s Mpesa, to help users pay for goods at Mpesa tills using gift vouchers. He worked as a software engineer for Wema Bank, Nigeria’s oldest indigenous bank, in the business automation department and worked on several projects that helped transform the bank’s operational processes, interfacing with and building on the Bank’s Core Banking Application (Finacle).
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About Wallet.ng: Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.
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.
Olajide Abiola
Founder/CEO of KiaKia
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About KiaKia: AI powered online market place for credit scoring and matching lenders with borrowers in real-time
Fara Ashiru Jituboh
Co-Founder & CEO/CTO of Okra, Inc.
Fara Ashiru Jituboh is a Co-Founder and CEO / CTO of Okra, Inc — focused on building the infrastructure to allow Africans connect their bank accounts to 3rd party applications to enable the acceleration of financial innovation in Africa through data. Prior to founding Okra in 2019, Fara gained experience building and scaling products in emerging markets and venture backed startups by working with organizations such as Canva, Techhustle, Sana Benefits, and Dorsata. Fara also served as a Co-Founder and CTO of Shixels Studios where she led the design and development of core technology for multiple clients including Airtel, AXA Mansard, RenMoney, MTech, Sanofi Pharmaceuticals and Nestoil. With expertise in over 20 programming languages, Fara has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies and began her professional career with BMW, leading the effort in the design and creation of the interactive map for the BMW Museum. She has also worked with JP Morgan Chase, Fidelity Investments and Daimler Mercedes Benz. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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About Okra, Inc.: Okra is the Open finance infrastructure that enables developers & businesses build personalised digital products/services.
Fehintolu Olaogun
Co-Founder & CEO of Credpal
Fehintolu Olaogun co-founded CredPal, a technology platform that allows consumers buy anything across online and offline merchants and pay for it in installments. Our base of operations is currently in Nigeria with immediate plans of extending to other parts of Africa. We would like partnerships and investment opportunities to drive credit access in Africa as the market is largely untapped with great potential.
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About Credpal, Tutor.ng: Credpal is a tech company that allows consumers buy anything across various online and offline merchants and pay for it in installments
Tayo Oviosu
Founder & CEO of Paga
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has been recognized globally – in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club. Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also 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.
Razaq Ahmed
Co-Founder and CEO of Cowrywise
Razaq Ahmed is the founder and CEO at Cowrywise.
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About Cowrywise: Cowrywise is a FinTech company that democratizes access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market.
Bashir Aminu
Co-Founder / CEO of Payourse
Bashir Aminu is the Co-Founder and CEO at Payourse.
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About Coinprofile, Payourse, Yellow Card: Payourse makes crypto more accessible to Africans by providing tools that helps businesses to build user-friendly crypto products.
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.
Yetunde Ilori
Chief Executive Officer of AXA Mansard
Yetunde started her insurance career in 1985 with Trans Nigeria Assurance Co. Ltd. and rose to become the head of Life and Pensions group. She later joined Crusader Insurance Plc. in 1997 where she was appointed head of Actuarial and Life groups at various times. She has chaired the Life Offices Committee for the last five years, and currently represents Nigeria on the Life Committee of African Insurance Organization and is also a member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Insurance Association. In addition to attending several training programmes abroad, Yetunde has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Lagos Business School. Yetunde joined AXA Mansard in 2004 as a Senior Manager and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of AXA Mansard Insurance (Life & General).
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About AXA Mansard: AXA Mansard is a member of the AXA Group, the worldwide leader in insurance and asset management.
Kunle Ahmed
Chief Executive Officer of AXA Mansard
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About AXA Mansard: AXA Mansard is a member of the AXA Group, the worldwide leader in insurance and asset management.
Oluwatomi Ayorinde
Co-Founder & CEO of CrowdForce
Oluwatomi Ayorinde is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CrowdForce.
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About CrowdForce: CrowdForce is an offline distribution network for market research and financial services.
Adeyinka Adewale
Co-Founder & CEO of Kudi
Adeyinka Adewale is Co-Founder & CEO at Kudi.
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About Kudi: Kudi is a financial service provider that focuses on providing access to electronic banking and financial services.
Chijioke Dozie
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Paylater
Chijioke Dozie is a co-Founder and CEO of OneFi, a digital financial lender and Paylater. He was previously an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) responsible for sourcing investment opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to IFC, Chijioke worked with Zephyr Management LP in the US and South Africa as an Investment Associate sourcing private equity opportunities in Africa and working closely with Zephyr’s portfolio companies. Chijioke holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MSc in Risk Management from the University of Reading. He also graduated with a BA Economics from University of East Anglia
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About Carbon, Onefi, Paylater: Paylater is a digital financial services platform that specializes in consumer lending.
Tunde Kehinde
Co-Founder / Co-CEO of Lidya
Tunde Kehinde is a seasoned emerging markets entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of Jumia Nigeria, Africa’s first unicorn (publicly listed on the NYSE) and Africa Courier Express, Nigeria’s leading last-mile eCommerce delivery company. Most recently, Tunde co-founded digital SME lender Lidya in 2016 with Ercin Eksin. Lidya uses AI to lend online to small business entrepreneurs in fast-growing economies, and is on a mission to create 100 million jobs worldwide. Lidya has current operations in Lagos, Warsaw and Prague, and ambitious international expansion plans, with a next focus on further European markets. Tunde has prior experience as a business development executive with Diageo in London and as an investment banking professional with Wachovia Securities. Tunde holds a degree in Finance with honours from Howard University and an MBA Harvard Business School.
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About Lidya: Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria.
Fatoumata BA
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner of Janngo
Fatoumata BA is a Board Member, Investor & Entrepreneur currently the Founder & CEO of Janngo, the #1 tech for good platform in Africa. At Jumia, the #1 African unicorn, she served as Founder & CEO in Ivory Coast, Managing Director in Nigeria and Member of the Executive committee at Africa level, driving the performance of 130+ operations across Africa, spanning around 10+ verticals (Mall, Market, Food, Travel, Deals, Cars, House, Jobs, Services, Pay, Lending) in 30+ countries with 3000+ direct jobs, 70000+ indirect jobs and opportunities created for more than 500 000 SMEs across Africa. She is passionate about leapfrogging development through technology in Africa, in particular when it comes to women’s entrepreneurship & empowerment, SMEs growth and formalization as well as tackling health and education issues through medtech and edtech. Her career and commitment have been rewarded with several distinctions including Choiseul 100 Africa – Economic Leaders of Tomorrow and Forbes Africa 30 under 30. She served on the Board of SouthBridge Investment Bank, on the Investment Committee of Creadev Africa and on the Council of Women in Africa.
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About Janngo: Janngo builds, grows and invests in pan-African digital champions
Henry Chibuzo
Co-Founder and CEO of Allpro Technologies
Henry Chibuzo is the co-founder and CEO of Schoolable. He is a former CEO at Klipboard Technologies. Henry holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Uyo.
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About Allpro Technologies, Schoolable: Allpro Technologies is a fintech startup.
Yemi Olulana
CEO of Flex Finance
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About Flex Finance: Flex Finance is a simple mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required.
Tonye Membere-Otaji
Founder & CEO of MVX
Tonye Membere-Otaji is a Founder of MVXchange.
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About MVX: MVX is a digital freight shipping and finance company for Africa.
Ifie Sekibo
CEO & MD of Heritage Bank PortaPOS
Sekibo is a thorough-bred alumnus of the renowned Harvard Business School OPM class (2006-2009) and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (2002) with over two decades professional work experience spanning across the financial services and energy sectors. He is a tenacious Entrepreneur, passionate game changer and result oriented professional with a proven track record in turn-around management. These attributes consistently drive his vision to lead tenacious teams which mobilize strategic investments and capital injection to resuscitate and restructure moribund Companies to the path of sustained profitability. In 2003, he led a team which acquired Global Assurance Company Limited, previously under the technical management of the National Insurance Commission. As Executive Vice Chairman, he steered the new institution, International Energy Insurance (IEI), which emerged as a frontline Insurance Company in Nigeria, undertaking a successful capital raise and listing on the Floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Again in 2009, he led another team of professionals which nurtured the re-birth of the erstwhile Societe Generale Bank which was transformed to an Innovative Commercial Bank with Regional Authorization called Heritage Banking Company Ltd where he served as the pioneer Managing Director/CEO. His passion and relentless drive for turn-around management is further evidenced by the recent successful acquisition of Enterprise Bank Ltd, to create a bigger, better and stronger Heritage Bank Ltd following rigorous and novel regulatory approval processes leading to the dissolution of the erstwhile Institutions comprising HBCL & EBL to birth the New Bank.
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About Heritage Bank PortaPOS: Heritage Bank is a leading Nigerian bank with an excellent service culture.
Rasheed Olaoluwa
MD & CEO of Bank of Industry Limited
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About Bank of Industry Limited: Bank of Industry Limited is Nigeria’s most successful development financing institution, providing support to Nigeria’s industrial sector.
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.
Akan Nelson
Founder and CEO of Evolve Credit
Akan E. Nelson is the Founder and CEO at Evolve Credit.
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About Evolve Credit: A loan and financial product marketplace that allows African consumers to find, compare, and apply for loan offers from select lenders.
Tolu Abiodun
Product Lead, CEO, and Founder of Zilla
Tolu Abiodun is the Product Lead, CEO, and founder of Zilla.
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About Zilla: Zilla is an innovative firm that enables Africans to live their best lives today by providing cheap and convenient financial services.
Michael Ogundare
CEO of Crop2Cash
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About Crop2Cash: Making formal financing accessible to farmers.
Uzoma Dozie
Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank
Uzoma Dozie is the CEO of Diamond Bank Plc.
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About Diamond Bank, Sparkle: Diamond Bank is a Nigerian firm, driven by innovation and operating on the most advanced banking technology platform in the market.
Segun Adeyemi
CEO/Co-founder of Amplified Payment System Ltd (Amplify)
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About Amplified Payment System Ltd (Amplify): Amplify builds next-generation payment solutions for banks, businesses and consumers in Africa.
Edoka Idoko
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ojirehprime Financial Services
An educationist by training and Entrepreneur by passion with over 8 years experience. He built an online food store called ojireh.com from a faulty samsung tab whose battery last only 30 min.
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About Ojirehprime Financial Services: Building a more transparent and customer focused bank that offers free debit cards, loans & innovative products that help you save
Cyril Odu
CEO of African Capital Alliance
Cyril Odu is the Chief Executive Officer of the African Capital Alliance.
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About African Capital Alliance: African Capital Alliance is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital.
David Inyang-Etoh
Chief Executive Officer of Jiggle
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About Jiggle: Jiggle is a meal budgeting platform budgeting for meals and makes gain control spending.
Yusuf Walter Zakari
CEO of ASUSU
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About ASUSU: ASUSU is a SaaS sompany that offers a software management solution digitizing the village savings and loan system known as a cooperative.
