At Budpay we are passionate about taking African businesses globally. We have built a robust payments infrastructure to deepen the participation of African businesses in international trade and commerce while helping International brands collect payments locally.

Our MissionAt BRB Capital, our mission is to empower visionary entrepreneurs to realize their dreams by providing strategic investment, expert guidance, and unwavering support. We believe in the transformative power of innovation and we are dedicated to fueling the next generation of industry leaders.

We facilitate cross-border remittance through our world-class payment infrastructure in Africa.We support startup unicorns like Transferwise and other International Money Transfer Operators across the globe who use our service to facilitate easy remittance to beneficiary bank accounts and mobile money wallet in Africa. We support the following corridors: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda, South Africa and 30 other African countries.

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Andela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others, Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. We have attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017, Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

Oversee the effective running and daily operations of all business units in SimplePay Limited, Nigeria.

- Work with the team to build enterprise version of link payment for enterprise clients.- Lead the successful deployment of link payment solution for toll gate payment via SMS reminder.- Grew adoption for link payment solution using innovative use cases for enterprise clients.

Cofounded Simplelink, a link payment solution enabling businesses to receive social media payment.My Key Objective and Achievement- Designed and worked with the engineering team to build a world-class, secure link payment solution for social media commerce.- Ran experiments to determine the best customer acquisition channels.- Grew user base from 1 to 1000 users in 30 days with zero acquisition budget.- Grew revenue month on month.- Led the onboarding process to deploy link payment solutions for enterprise businesses.

Led software development for banks, insurance companies and e-commerce websites. Integration of Interswitch payment gateway for clients.

• Produced sales and marketing literature, plus technical and end user documentation for hosted service offering utilizing skills in Technical Writing.• Develop mobile applications for S60 phone (e.g Nokia E series) and blackberry to connect with remote database for remote and offshore services.• Development of database web application using Microsoft ASP.NET to retrieve data from a remote SQL server.• Implement on-demand real time live video streaming for event.• Develop membership websites.• Integration of payment gateway for interswitch (Webpay) for ecommerce site.

Fulfilled the roles of Web Developer & Infrastructure Manager. Oversaw development of new web products, evaluated new technology, and supervised several infrastructure projects like supply and installation of hardware to clients.• Develop and manage client websites. • Installed and configured server with Red Hat Linux

Develop web interface to existing database based product, using Visual Basic, Javascript, XML and HTML. Additional network support and system administration role, Windows 98/NT/2000.