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 Managing Director operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Managing 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.

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

Godfrey Efeurhobo
Managing Director of SMILE Telecoms Holdings
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About SMILE Telecoms Holdings: Smile Telecom is a broadband provider company
Lanre Kolade
Managing Director of Vodacom
Lanre is a graduate of Wits Business School, London Business School and Obafemi Awolowo University; who has successfully worked his way up through the ranks of the Telecoms Industry over the past 20 years. Vodacom’s culture of reward, recognition and development of existing talents, has enabled him attain the positions of Managing Director of the West, East, Central Africa & South East Africa Regions and now; Managing Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria where under his leadership the business has recorded significant increases in revenue and all round business efficiency.
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About Csquared, Vodacom: Vodacom is an African mobile communications company that provides voice, messaging, data, and converged solutions.

Dan Asare-Kyei
Managing Director of Esoko Networks
Daniel has a unique mix of professional experience, from international development to entrepreneurship to rich scientific career. He started as a project officer with ADRA Ghana in an integrated food security program where he worked with 5000 smallholders to increase their productivity, find markets and helped them reduce post-harvest losses. He then led a team of experts on USAID funded Trade and Investment program in Northern Ghana where he work on commodity value chains focusing on bottom of the pyramid actors. Daniel again worked as a GIS Program Manager with TechnoServe, on secondment to ACDI/VOCA. It’s in this role that he initiated the development of first Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Ghana’s agricultural sector. An interactive online platform (www.gis4ghagric.net). In research, he conducted a pioneering research in post-harvest management of perishables using advanced remote sensing techniques to model the post-harvest decay of vegetables during transport in West Africa. These models are currently being developed into a web service and a software application to promote inter-regional trade in West Africa. Daniel bridges the gap between farmer realities and technological innovations and has unique ability to translate technological solutions to solve real-life problems affecting small, illiterate farmers. As a proud farmer, he founded Eucharia Farms Ltd. and has been a consultant on GIS mapping projects, agribusiness and ICT for agriculture. In 2012, he joined Esoko Networks to become the Ghana country manager responsible for developing innovative ICT tools and e-extension services using mobile phones. He is currently the CEO of Esoko’s data collection service named Insyt. Daniel is also a fellow of the United Nations University-EHS and pursues a doctorate in climate change risk and vulnerability assessment West Africa.
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About Esoko Networks: Esoko is a powerful communications platform to help you manage agricultural value chains
Stephane Beuvelet
Acting Managing Director & Board Member of 9mobile
Stephane Beuvelet is the Acting Managing Director & Board Member at 9mobile.
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About 9mobile: 9mobile is a Nigerian telecommunications services provider.