AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa, 2010

Abiodun Ogunlabi graduated from the University of Lagos in 1995 with BSc. honours in Industrial Chemistry. In 2003/2004 after several years of hands-on management experience, he acquired a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the pres more...

CEO of TC-QA. His experience of over 18 yrs cuts across consultancy, business analysis, business development, Project management, QA, System/Web Testing, Integration, Regression, Performance testing across Telecommunication, Investment and commerci more...

Mr. Jimenez has more than 12 years of experience in banking strategy and business development work, both as a consultant and a corporate practitioner. He has been part of the Financial Services sector as an industry analyst and a strategy consultant s more...

Andrea Bohnstedt is the publisher of Ratio Magazine (www.ratio-magazine.com), an East Africa online business magazine, and works as an independent country risk analyst for several international firms.  Andrea has an established track record in c more...

Ayo Osunrinade, a medical doctor turned media entrepreneur is the CEO of Urban Media Entertainment Ltd. He has been invloved in the entertainment industry since 1997 including establishing  and running a TV channel in the UK (Urban TV). He has als more...

The Group Chief Executive of FASYL Group, Bade, is the pioneering Chief Executive Officer of the first company in the Group founded in 1998 in Nigeria. The group currently have operations in six countries. He has well over 20 years of experience in the ICT more...

W. G. Barry Ryan, an Australian citizen, is the Managing Director of Loita Transaction Services Ltd as well as Fintech International Ltd. Also a former Citibank manager, Mr. Ryan has over nineteen years of experience in planning, developing and implementin more...

David Poole is a 25 year veteran of Point of Sale and Software Solutions.  After attending Manchester University, where he specialised in Marketing in his final year, David first supported and then sold emerging POS solutions in the UK throughout the more...

Emmanuel Okoegwale, Editor at Africa’s leading resource for Mobile financial inclusion, MobileMoneyAfrica which serves half a Million Global visitors monthly.He is also active in the Mobile financial landscape in Africa and across the globe, more...

Foluso Phillips is the Executive Chairman and founder of the Phillips Consulting Group, a firm of business and management consultants with offices in Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom and Kenya.
A qualified Industrial Economist, Chartered M more...

Francis Ebuehi is currently the CEO of Chamsswitch Limited, a transaction processing and switching company based in Nigeria.  Prior to joining ChamsSwitch, he has worked in various capacities for over 18 years in several companies across Managemen more...

Gabriel Swanepoel is the New Technologies Manager at Visa Sub Saharan Africa. He is responsible for all the innovation initiatives throughout Sub Saharan Africa, with a focus on Mobile and Contactless payment systems. Prior to joining Visa Inc, Gabr more...

Georg F. Roider is the CEO and founder of Probanx Information Systems Ltd.
Georg has the vision of delivering innovative and customisable software solutions for local and international banks. He founded his own managed business BankCom Consultants more...

Georgina Ayoola studied at the University of Herfordshire / University of London were she obtained BENG Hons in Digital Electronics/Electronics and Microwave Communication. Worked with Raster Electroncs designing a test bed for converting Power to Lig more...

a) Reserve Bank of India- Specialist in Regulation, Compliance, Inspection / Audit / Supervision of Commercial / Cooperative / Regional Rural Banks, Banking Management and Corporate Governance, Compliance, Reporting Systems, Banking Technology Applicatio more...

A payments and mobile distribution expert with a proven knowledge of online, offline and mobile payments. He has previously created virtual and POS enabled card schemes within international money transfer and the retail sector, and is also credited wit more...

Mr. Hany Fekry is Head of Sales, Marketing and Corporate Communications, a position he has held at MSCC since 2006.  He is currently responsible for distribution planning, sales, as well as promoting MSCC’s processing operations and services in more...

Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani is the President/Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications, Nigeria which provides interconnect exchange clearinghouse services. Medallion currently employs 18 full time staff and has 29 telecom operators in Nigeria as it more...

Issa is the regional manager for Inmarsat in the MEA region where he has been looking after marketing and business development. Issa has over 20 years experience in Inmarsat satellite services that have been used in mobile banking and other market sectors.

JAMES K.A. OLEKAH
BSc Statistics, MSc Economics
He is currently the Director of Banking Operations, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and was a former Director, Monetary Policy Department of the CBN.  He is also the Chairman of the Pa more...

Julian Marais has worked in Business Development since 2000.  – gaining considerable Business Development Management experience in the information technology; advertising and office automation industries.
Since being employed by Contin more...

Mr. Kyari A. Bukar attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he obtained a B.Sc Degree in Physics. Soon after his National Service, he proceeded to Oregon State University in the United States of America, where he bagged a Masters Degree (M.Sc) in more...

Macauley Atasie is the CEO of NEXTZON Business Services Limited and president ePPAN (ePayment Providers Association of Nigeria). He has been involved in several multi- country business activities such as:• Set up of STB/UBA Ghana• Acquisition of more...

Marius Krige is the Regional Executive for Aperta Limited in Africa based in Johannesburg. He has been involved with the Information Technology and Financial Services industries for the past 20 years.  As sales and marketing director for, first Unis more...

Neil Lightfoot is an engagement manager in the banking practice. He joined Genesis Analytics in October 2008 and areas of delivery expertise include consumer insights and analysis, pricing and market structure, and credit risk operations strategy.
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Onajite Regha is currently the Executive Secretary/CEO E-Payment Providers Association of Nigeria. She started her career in Aula Marina an Oil and Gas Servicing firm, and proceeded to Citibank where she spent over 3 years in the Operations depa more...

PBCL (Priceworth Business Connections Limited) offers appliances and services that ensure organizations’ critical ICT infrastructure are better protected and utilized for business efficiency and improved bottom-line. Our focus is to ensure custom more...

Rudolf Smit is Channel Manager for Africa at S1. He joined the company in 2003 as a developer in the International Delivery Team (IDT). After spending some time in the United States and Dubai—where he managed various client implementations—he more...

Russel graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics). He spent 3 years in the United Kingdom working for several international banks. He then returned to South Africa in 2003 and joined Investec Private Bank in the more...

a) Reserve Bank of India- Specialist in Regulation, Compliance, Inspection / Audit / Supervision of Commercial / Cooperative / Regional Rural Banks, Banking Management and Corporate Governance, Compliance, Reporting Systems, Banking Technology App more...

Education : Graduated from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata; Hons in Political Science.
Parallel Research : Fellow and Governing Body Member of Indian School of Social Sciences, Calcutta Chapter till 1988
Current Occupation:
a) CEO & more...

Ms. Sophia Bekele is a business and corporate executive, who, through education, entrepreneurial experience and international exposure, has performed superlatively in roles that straddle both the public and private sectors. Ms. Bekele’s has worked more...

Stephan Botha is the Managing Director / CEO of Integrated Cash Management Services Ltd., a Nigerian company specializing in cash supply chain management.  The company is a joint venture company established between XL Cash Management Services Limit more...

Suleman Shaik, Chief Executive, Direct Channel Holdings (Pty) Ltd
 
As Chief Executive, Suleman Shaik is responsible for providing the leadership the company requires in order to achieve its operational and financial performance targe more...

Vishal graduated from IIT Bombay with specialization in electrical engineering. His final year thesis on fingerprint imaging led to the development of the core technology behind Herald Logic, a company that he founded and ran. As CEO of Herald Logic (200 more...

Yele Okeremi is the founding and incumbent Managing Director of Precise Financial Systems Ltd: A company that is involved in the development of software for use in the financial sector. Starting out with a capital of about $80, Precise Financial Systems more...