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Africa’s main funds firm chief, Olugbenga Agboola, joins an extended checklist of CEOs globally who’re shaking the finance world throughout completely different verticals.
Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, the CEO of Flutterwave, Africa’s main funds expertise firm, has joined the celebrated Wall Road Journal (WSJ) CEO Council. This recognition, which follows the recent acceptance of Flutterwave’s CFO Oneal Bhambani into the Wall Road Journal’s CFO Community, establishes GB as a worldwide thought chief in fintech.
Comprising 350 CEOs from numerous industries, the WSJ CEO Council instructions a powerful international presence, with a collective workforce exceeding 11 million staff and producing about $4.48 trillion in annual income. It serves as an influential platform, facilitating progress conversations and fostering the trade of concepts amongst leaders of the world’s most famous firms.
With an instructional footprint that cuts throughout establishments such because the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise, the Wharton College of Administration, and the College of Westminster, GB brings a wealth of information and experience to his function at Flutterwave. In 2020, he was named the African Management Journal’s Younger Enterprise Chief of The 12 months.
GB’s inclusion in Fortune Journal’s 40 below 40 checklist and a subsequent acknowledgement on Time Journal’s 2021 Subsequent 100 checklist additional solidify his standing as an influential tech chief. Additionally, in October 2022, he was conferred with the Nationwide Honor, Officer of the Order of the Niger, by President Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Underneath GB’s management, Flutterwave’s fee infrastructure has reworked transactional experiences throughout the African continent, changing into the fourth firm to gain unicorn status (one billion greenback valuation) after elevating a $170m Sequence C spherical in 2021.
In his new function inside the WSJ CEO Council, GB can have a novel platform to share his views and interact in conversations about rising economies, funds, and international fintech with a few of the world’s most influential CEOs.
“As Flutterwave continues to innovate and supply funds infrastructure in Africa and past, it’s an honour to hitch the ranks of WSJ’s esteemed CEO Council, an necessary platform for thought management and the trade of concepts,” mentioned Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola. “Flutterwave’s work is an instance of the transformative energy of monetary expertise, and I sit up for bringing my perspective as the corporate’s CEO to the Council.”
Different members of the Council embrace Ebenezer Onyeagwu, group managing director and CEO, Zenith Financial institution; Allan Thygesen, CEO, Docusign; Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; Börje Ekholm, president and CEO at Ericsson; Todd Boehly, chairman and CEO at Eldridge; and Arvind Krishna, CEO at IBM.
