Our Team

We are a team of experts in various fields such as technology, business, finance, law, and marketing who have extensive experience in the fintech industry. We are passionate about providing innovative and secure solutions for digital identity and payments using facial recognition technology. We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and customer satisfaction

We have a flat and agile organizational structure that allows us to work efficiently and effectively.

Career: Visa International (London), OP Financial Group, Sonera (London), IKANO Bank (an IKEA Group company), PHOY, International and Regional Projects since 2007

Focus: Business Strategy and execution, How People Save and Lend, Buy and Pay Tomorrow, Corporate Governance & Compliance

Relevant experience for project: Board Director, Cyber Security 1 AB group, a Swedish listed company, subsidiaries in South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius and UAE. Member of the FIN-FSA PSD2 monitoring Group. St1 Finance Ltd, from strategy to launch. Tallink Grupp, impact and opportunity of the evolving payments market. Enfuce Financial Services Ltd, Payment Cards As A service Trade Bank of Iraq, Advisor to the Chairman. Visa International, CEMEA Region, SVP New Products

Career: Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble West Africa, Senior Marketing Manager MTN Nigeria, Unit Head Mobile Financial Service MTN Nigeria, Director Mobile Financial Services - Globacom, Country Manager MFS Africa – Mobile Financial services

Focus: Business management and strategy, Product/ services conceptualization, Go to market strategy from idea to launch and steady stage

Relevant experience for project: Launch of Ariel detergent and Vicks lozenges P&G West Africa, Introduction of various P&S VAS at MTN, Mobile financial services design and deployment at MTN & Globacom, Mobile financial services design and deploymentat MFS Africa, Design & Deployment of telecoms and financial services at 3way communications

Career: Greenwich Consulting management consultant (acquired by EY), Huawei: Mobile Financial service consulting director 26 north African countries, Mobinance founder and co-founder for several companies, INWI Money independent board member

Focus: Strategy consultant for major regional companies, Product/services conceptualization, Go to market strategy from idea to launch and steady stage

Relevant experience for the project: Launch of MTN mobile money in 16 countries, Jiring mobile money launch in Iran, Kifiya technologies Ethiopia branchless banking launch, Samantel: Launch of virtual mobile operator for a bank, INWI Money: Service conceptualization and go to market strategy, Work experience and partnership with all major mobile money technology platforms

Career: Director of R&D and Production, Cloudia Oy Ltd, Director of R&D, Blancco Oy Ltd, Head of Production, Blancco Oy Ltd, Software Engineer, Sitefactory Oy, Software Engineer, Concept Networks Ltd

Focus: Solution Architecture, Software Design and Development, DevOps and automation

Relevant experience for project: Co-authoring and launching multiple international cloud-based solutions, Designing, planning and developing multiple-product product suite(s), Coaching and managing multiple product teams to reach the set milestones and deadlines for successful releases.

Paavo has law degrees from Finland and Sweden, specialising in international commercial dispute resolution. He has also studied international law in France and business in Finland.

He has broad working experience in international business law, such as contract management and corporate governance, working as a legal consultant, for example, for the Cyber Security 1 AB.

He has also been assisting various startups in legal matters. Currently, he works for one of the largest international business law firms.

Kelechi is a Business Analyst with over 9 years of experience managing projects in Finance and Administration within the Telecoms/Value Added Services industry in Nigeria.

He is an IT Solution enthusiast and a member of the IIBA.

Over the years, he has successfully managed projects and efficiently collaborated on various project in defining, refining & prioritizing user stories to meet business and user requirements.

He played a crucial role in the deployment of Data and portal services such as EKSU Smart-School and OGData services, across higher institutions in Nigeria.

He studied Business Management at the University of Lagos.

He has a Certificate in Accounting and Financial Management from London School of Business and Finance UK.

He also holds an Adv. Certificate in Information Technology from NIIT in Nigeria.

Innovative tech mind with 5 years experience working as a web developer.

Capable of working with a variety of technologies, web solutions, APIs and databases.

He has provided solutions to complex business problems by developing simple yet effective web applications/portals.

Projects include: Ogdata.com.ng, Loadedsms.com, Telecoms Value added services deployment across Nigeria’s telecoms providers, Payment services development, integration and management. Platforms include OnePipe, Paystack, Flutterwave and Coralpay, Tech support for Nigeria Port Authority

PHP Backend Web Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry.

Skilled in Mobile Content, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Development, IT Service Management, Network Administration, and Databases.

Has managed and supported simple to complex projects.

Served as a content manager in the Value Added Services Industry(VAS) having managed platforms developed by Huawei, MTN, GLO, 9mobile, IMI Mobile, Sony Erickson, Airtel, Nokia, and other music platforms.

Projects include: SMS Gateways (Kannel, ozeki SMS), Payment Services Integration (Flutterwave, Paystack, Monify, Onepipe, Lotus Bank etc), Mobile Carrier Billing.