Dare Okoudjou

Founder & CEO - Onafriq

Dare Okoudjou is the Founder and CEO of Onafriq, a leading Pan-African Fintech company,
operating the largest digital payments hub on the continent. Onafriq connects 1 billion mobile wallets and 500 million bank accounts and more than 2,000 cross border payment corridors, offering unparalleled reach into the growing African digital consumers.

Onafriq 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. Onafriq was named by the international business magazine Fast Company as one of Africa’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies.

Prior to founding Onafriq, 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.

Dare has been named as one of the Endeavor Entrepreneurs of the Endeavor Network, a leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is also one of 13 African founders who participated into the inaugural Foundry Fellowship at MIT where he used his experience and skills to catalyse the next generation of innovation-driven entrepreneurship across the continent.

He has an MSc in Telecom Engineering from ENST-Paris and an MBA from INSEAD.