IAMTN Africa Summit 2020

Ade Ayeyemi was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated in June 2015 and assumed office on September 1, 2015. He is an experienced banker, who before joining Ecobank, had a long and successful career with Citigroup, where he was CEO of Citigroup’s Sub-Saharan Africa division based in Johannesburg. Ade is an accounting graduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours. He also studied at the University of London and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme. A Chartered Accountant, and has many interests include business strategy, economics, process engineering and technology.

Jeremy is recognised as a global expert in mobile financial services with a particular expertise in microinsurance and digital insurance. He has been involved in advising, researching and implementing initiatives across the world. An experienced executive in both the private and public sector, Jeremy has been a Director at BFA, a global consultancy focused on innovation in responsible financial services, where he advised and supported a number of global insurers and mobile operators. As Divisional Director and Head of Microinsurance at the Hollard Insurance Group he drove a range of insurance innovations internationally, from product development to distribution to consumer engagement. Leading Hollard’s work on m-insurance he established a partnership and pilot with MTN Group and advised on initiatives in Pakistan, China and other countries. Prior to Hollard, Jeremy was Executive Director at FinMark Trust where his leadership on insurance and mobile money had global impact. Jeremy is a Chartered Certified Accountant (UK) and holds an MSc in International Development (Bath, UK). He is a founding member and adviser to Cenfri, and a member of the IAIS-Micro Insurance Network Joint Working Group on Micro-insurance. He has served on the South African Short Term Insurance Advisory Committee at the behest of the Minister of Finance, as well as sat on the board of MicroEnsure, a specialist microinsurance intermediary that focuses on mobile insurance. He speaks regularly at international conferences on microinsurance, m-insurance, mobile money and innovation in financial services

Stone cut his teeth in fintech with Pretoria-based loan management vendor Payment Solutions International. He went on to become Country Manager for Kenya before consulting for multiple banks like Stanbic Bank, Barclays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank in Kenya and Uganda on using technology to improve loan collections. He then co-founded Yetu Credit Finance, a USSD-based micro-lender for government employees in Uganda. He co-founded useremit.com, a remittance company delivering to mobile money in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda. He is a laureate of the Paris-based Institut Choiseul as one of the young African leaders of 40 years old and under, who have a major impact on the continent’s economic development. In 2017, he was selected by the government of France as an exceptionally talented entrepreneur and moved to Paris to found Eversend, Africa’s first neobank.

Andy Jury is the Group CEO of Mukuru, Africa’s largest remittances-focussed fintech and an enabler of safe, affordable and reliable financial services to underserved communities. Under Jury’s guidance, Mukuru has grown its customer base to over 2 million and has accelerated the expansion of its business to over 90 remittance corridors. Jury is expanding the ​offering of​ financial services products to enable migrants to climb the financial ladder by providing financial inclusion to those that might otherwise not have access to formal bank accounts. Prior to Mukuru, Jury held senior positions over ​his​ 9 years at Edcon Group including Chief Executive: Speciality Stores Division. He holds a Bachelor of Business Science from UCT and a MBA from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School. Away from the office, Andy has a full family life together with his wife, Caroline, and their three kids. He also enjoys cycling, cricket and the odd game of golf.

Antonia Esser is a Senior Associate at Cenfri, an independent not-for-profit think tank based in Cape Town. Cenfri does applied research around financial inclusion and the digital economy, and supporting financial sector development through facilitating better regulation and market provision of financial services. The research assists policy makers, regulators, financial service providers and development partners operating in emerging markets to develop inclusive financial systems. In collaboration with key partners, Cenfri actively engages across Africa, Latin America and Asia. Funded by FSDA under the 5-year RRI programme, Cenfri is currently researching the remittance and payments markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Antonia’s research focus for the past four years has been the market barriers and the role of technology in inclusive payments, cross-border remittances and insurance for regulators, providers, consumers and the private sector in SSA. She is engaged in researching and developing African fit-for-purpose national and regional payments systems with a particular focus on remittance channels with various African regulators and is exploring the role of for-purpose remittance products in SSA with providers.

Albert Maasland started his career in banking at Chase Manhattan Bank – later J P Morgan – and during his 11 year career was involved in transforming and building a range of highly successful and profitable business units. This included launching the world’s first generation of cross-border electronic transaction banking services and setting up sales teams in global cash management, institutional and custody areas before taking over as Head of FX sales. Albert later became Global head of Business Development at HSBC Markets before tackling the transformation of the FX business at Deutsche Bank, helping steer them from 24th to the number one FX provider worldwide. He took on various other roles before joining the Deutsche Bank Wholesale and the Investment Bank’s Management Committee. He founded or co-founded a number of start up businesses before returning to banking and helped establish the global e-commerce business at Standard Chartered before moving to Saxo Bank where he fulfilled numerous roles including CEO of Saxo Bank UK and then Chairman of Saxo Bank Capital Markets UK. He was CEO of Knight Capital Europe and subsequently KCG Europe before becoming Group CEO of Crown Agents Bank and its sister Asset Management Business.

Navin Gupta is Managing Director for South Asia and MENA region for Ripple. Navin joined Ripple following two years as Co-Founder and CEO of on-demand commercial transportation service. Navin has extensive experience in global transaction banking, payments and cash management, and strategy planning following nearly two decades working for HSBC and Citigroup across the U.S., Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and India. Navin served as board member of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) from 2011 to 2014. In 2008, he was recognized as one of “The 50 Most Promising Young Leaders” in Asia-Pac by The Asian Banker. Navin is a MBA graduate from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. Navin currently lives in Dubai and is an Art of Living teacher.

Dare Okoudjou is the Founder and CEO of MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African Fintech company, operating the largest digital payments hub on the continent. The MFS Hub connects over 180 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa offering unparalleled reach into the growing African digital consumers. The company allows merchants, banks, mobile operators and money transfer companies to take advantage of the unique ubiquity of mobile wallets as a safe, convenient, and cost-effective transaction channel. MFS Africa was named by the international business magazine Fast Company as one of Africa’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in 2017. Prior to founding MFS, Dare worked at MTN Group, where he developed its mobile payment strategy and led its implementation across 21 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East. He began his career as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris. He has an MSc in Telecom Engineering from ENST-Paris and an MBA from INSEAD.

Mr. Settor Amediku has over 23years of experience in central banking as an economist and accountant specialising in Financial Services and Payment Systems development, Financial Surveillance and Monetary Policy implementation. He is the Director and the Head of Payment Systems Department of the Bank of Ghana. Settor is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountant, United Kingdom and also a member of the Ghana Institute of Chartered Accountants.
He has written several scholarly papers some of which have influenced banking and economic policies of Ghana and currently leading a team of staff at the Bank of Ghana to reform and deepen the Ghanaian payments ecosystem.
Settor has also consulted for the United Nations/ World Trade Organisation and International Trade Centre on Financial Sector Development and Trade in Financial Services and Development. He was also engaged by the International Monetary Fund as a short term expert in 2018 to review and propose measures for development of the Liberian payment systems to foster financial inclusion
He was educated in Ghana and the United Kingdom and holds Master of Philosophy in Monetary Economics and Finance from Glasgow University, Scotland with a joint award as best student in Economics in 2004. He took his doctoral degree in Finance from the SMC University, Switzerland.

Eliamringi has substantial experience having worked for more than 23 years with both local and multinational institutions. His work and academic experience extends to accounting, financial analysis, banking supervision, cross-border payments, AML/CFT, microfinance and financial inclusion. He has managed World Bank funded projects, held various managerial positions while working with the Central Bank and participated in the development of the country’s financial inclusion strategies. He pioneered and managed the establishment of credit reference system in the country. Elia is an ardent proponent of the potential of technology in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of demand and supply side perspectives. He is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds a Master’s in Business Administration and a Bachelor Degree in Accounting.