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Abdoulaye Bah
Abdoulaye Bah is a Guinean software engineer based in Toronto, Canada, who co-founded the cross-border payments company Cauridor in 2022 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
Adeleke Adekoya
Adeleke Adekoya is a Nigerian fintech executive who co-founded Flutterwave in 2016 with Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, after leading digital banking at Access Bank in Lagos.
Africa Re
Africa Re, formally the African Reinsurance Corporation, is a pan-African intergovernmental reinsurance group established at Yaoundé, Cameroon, in 1976 by 36 African states and the African Development Bank.
Ahmed Sabbah
Ahmed Sabbah is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Swvl in 2017, served as its chief technology officer until 2021, and founded the neobank Telda.
Ahmed Wagueeh
Ahmed Wagueeh is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the fintech company Khazna in 2019 and serves as its chief technology officer, after working at Valeo, Intel, and IBM.
Aida Diarra
Aida Diarra is a Senegalese-born payments executive who joined Visa in November 2018 as Senior Vice President and head of Sub-Saharan Africa, after roughly two decades at Western Union.
Akeem Lawal
Akeem Olujinmi Lawal is a Nigerian fintech executive who has been at Interswitch from its 2002 inception and serves as Managing Director of Payment Processing & Switching (Interswitch Purepay).
Alain El-Hajj
Alain El-Hajj is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob in 2015 and serves as its Chief Operating Officer, building payments infrastructure across the MENA region.
Ali El Atrash
Ali El Atrash is an Egyptian technology executive and co-founder and chief operating officer of Trella, a Cairo digital freight marketplace; he previously helped build Uber's business in Egypt.
Andela
Andela is a global talent marketplace connecting technologists in emerging markets with enterprises hiring remote software engineers. It was founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014 and valued at $1.5 billion in 2021.
Ashraf Sabry
Ashraf Sabry (أشرف صبري) is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who founded Fawry, Egypt's largest electronic payment network, in 2008 and led its 2019 stock listing.
Benjamin Fernandes
Benjamin Fernandes is a Tanzanian fintech founder, a former TV presenter and Stanford MBA graduate, who co-founded NALA in 2016, a cross-border payments company for diaspora customers.
Bestinver Cameroun
Bestinver Cameroun, also known as Bestcam SA, is a Cameroonian holding company promoted by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo that held 30% of Nexttel operator Viettel Cameroun.
Brice Nkengsa
Brice Nkengsa is a software engineer and University of Waterloo graduate who co-founded Andela in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014, serving as the company's Director of Engineering.
Buhle Goslar
Buhle Goslar is a South African fintech executive who served as JUMO's CEO for Africa and Pakistan from 2019 to 2023, and now chairs the neobank Lula.
Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank is a South African retail bank headquartered in Stellenbosch, founded by Michiel le Roux and other businessmen and listed in 2002, serving more than 26 million clients.
Cassava Technologies (technology group)
Cassava Technologies is a pan-African digital infrastructure and technology holding group founded by Strive Masiyiwa in 2021 and led by CEO Hardy Pemhiwa, operating fiber networks, data centers, and AI services across some 30 markets.
Cauridor
Cauridor is an African B2B cross-border payments company founded in 2022 by Guinean entrepreneurs Oumar Rafiou Barry and Abdoulaye Bah as a spin-out of BNB Transfer Corp.
Chari
Chari is a Casablanca-based B2B e-commerce and fintech company serving Moroccan corner stores, founded in 2020 by Ismael Belkhayat and Sophia Alj, with over 20,000 businesses onboarded.
Charles Ifedi
Charles Ifedi is a Nigerian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Interswitch in 2002 and served as pioneer CEO of Verve International, Africa's largest domestic debit card network.
Chipper Cash
Chipper Cash is a pan-African cross-border payments fintech founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, known for its no-fee peer-to-peer money transfer app across Africa.
Christina Sass
Christina Sass is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Andela in 2014, serving as its chief operating officer and president, and became CEO of the International Youth Foundation in 2024.
DBS
DBS, also known as Danpullo Broadcasting System, is a private Cameroonian television channel owned by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, who entered broadcasting with it in 2009.
Diane Karusisi
Diane Karusisi is a Rwandan economist and banker, chief executive of Bank of Kigali since 2016 and a former chief economist in the Office of the President.
Discovery Limited (South African insurer)
Discovery Limited is a South African financial services group founded by Adrian Gore in 1992 and listed on the JSE since 1999, known for its Vitality rewards insurance model.
Drew Durbin
Drew Durbin is the American co-founder and CEO of Wave, a mobile money company launched in Senegal in 2018 that reached a $1.7 billion valuation in 2021.
Econet Wireless
Econet Wireless is a Zimbabwean telecommunications and fintech group founded by Strive Masiyiwa after a five-year legal battle, operating the country's largest mobile network and the EcoCash platform with about 9 million users.
Esther Chibesa
Esther Chibesa is a pan-African banking executive who spent 25 years at Citi, rising to Managing Director and Treasury & Trade Solutions Head for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Fawry
Fawry (فوري) is an Egyptian banking technology and electronic payments company founded in 2008, led by chief executive Ashraf Sabry and listed on the Egyptian Exchange since 2019.
Felix Ike
Felix Ike is a Nigerian software engineer who co-founded the payments company Moniepoint with Tosin Eniolorunda in 2015 as TeamApt and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.