Tayo Oviosu

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Paga Founder and CEO Tayo Oviosu, Cellulant Co-founder and CEO Ken Njoroge, Helios Investment Partners Vice President Fope Adelowo, and moderator Jake Bright at TechCrunch Disrupt SF.jpg
Oviosu far left in 2018
Born
Eyitayo David Oviosu

September 10, 1977;46 years ago (1977-09-10)
Lagos State
NationalityEdo State, Nigerian; American
Education Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Southern California
Master's degree in Business Administration, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
OccupationEntrepreneur
Years active2009–present
Known forFounder and Group CEO of Paga
Title Group CEO of Paga
Spouse
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(m. 2014)​
Website paga.com

Tayo Oviosu is a Nigerian-American businessman who is the founder and group CEO of Paga, a mobile payments company that is focused on digitizing cash in emerging economies. Nigeria is Paga's first market. [1] [2] [3]

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Eyitayo Oviosu is from Edo State by origin, he obtained a master's degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He formerly served as Manager Corporate Development at Cisco Systems in San Jose California and was vice president at Travant Capital Partners in Lagos, Nigeria until 2009, when he started Paga where he is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer. [4] [5]

Tayo Oviosu has also co-founded Kairos Angels.

Education

Oviosu is a graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Southern California. He also has a master's degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University in 2005. [6] [7]

Career

After graduating from USC, Oviosu started his career at Biomorphic VLSI as a Semiconductor Chip Design Engineer and then Event 411 as a Software Engineer all based in Los Angeles California. [8]

He later went to work for Deloitte Consulting in the CRM and Technology practice as a Senior Consultant. After business school he joined Cisco Systems in San Jose California where he was responsible for strategy, acquisitions and private equity investments in a few segments and helped lead Cisco's investment expansion in Africa with investment opportunities. He led investments and acquisitions which include the $130m acquisition of Reactivity and investment in Guardium (Database Security, Series C, sold to IBM). [9] In 2008, he returned to Nigeria where he joined Travant Capital Partners and served as vice president.

In 2009, he founded Paga to address the use of cash and expand financial access. [10]

Personal life

Eyitayo Oviosu is from Edo State, born in Lagos by Ora, Edo State father and mother from Kogi State. He is married to an Ibibio woman from Akwa Ibom State, Affiong Williams in 2014. [11]

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References

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  5. ↑ Mobile & African Tech Enthusiast │ Music │Get in touch (2018-09-05). "NIBSS figures question Paga's 9 million unique user base". Techpoint.Africa. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  6. ↑ "Tayo Oviosu: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
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