Leadership
Dozy Mmobuosi
Group Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dozy Mmobuosi
Group Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dozy co-founded Tingo Mobile PLC (Nigeria) in the year 2001and is our Group Chief Executive Officer. Dozy has vast global experience in South- East Asia, China, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, USA and the UK. An adviser to corporate clients, steering the strategy and design of business plans (investments, acquisition, and organic growth) into new global markets –across three continents he has directed significant operating growth of Tingo with over $500 million in annual revenue.
In 2001 Dozy founded Fair Deal Concepts Limited, now Tingo Mobile Plc (Nigeria). In 2002 he led the design and launch of Nigeria’s first SMS Banking Solution (Flashmecash), later sold to FMCB who still use it today.
From 2013 Dozy Led a team of 123 Chinese and Nigerian engineers to setup 2 mobile phone assembly facilities in Nigeria (Lakowe and Lugbe). These facilities have produced over 20 million mobile devices which have been distributed across Nigeria.
Dozy is currently co-sponsoring a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC (Africa Acquisition Corp, Inc), targeted at acquiring a natural resources company in Africa.
Mr. Mmobuosi received a BSc in Political Science in 2001 and an MSc Economics in 2003 from Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo State (Nigeria). In 2007, he received a PhD in Rural Advancement from UPM Malaysia.
Colm Patterson
Group Chief Financial Officer
Colm Patterson
Group Chief Financial Officer
Colm Patterson, age 49, has over 29 years experience in the financial and professional services sector in Ireland and across the African continent. He has lived and worked, primarily based in Southern Africa since 1997. He has led and managed large finance teams and held responsibilities for finance, financial planning, investor relations, mergers, acquisitions and disposals, funding, balance sheet and tax planning, P&L and cash flow optimisation, credit risk and corporate reporting.
Prior to his current role, Colm was the Group CFO for the Letshego Holdings Group, from 2007 to 2020, a Pan African financial services group with a listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange and debt programs listed on the Johannesburg, Botswana, Ghana and Mozambique stock exchanges. Letshego has operations in 11 territories across Southern, East and West Africa. He spent 10 years, 1997 to 2007, at PricewaterhouseCoopers with his last position being an Associate Director in the audit and assurance department. At PwC, Colm was responsible for a number of clients in the financial services, tourism and communications sectors and other responsibilities included IFRS training and staff development.
Colm is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and was admitted as a member in 1995. He is also a Fellow member of the Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Clarence Simms
Group Chief Technology Officer
Clarence Simms
Group Chief Technology Officer
As an MIT graduate with 25 years of IT and IT Management experience, He has spent the last 18 years working in the ITO/BPO vertical with a special eye and emphasis on Africa, In Africa he specialized in ITSS (IT Shared Services) Technical Operations and IT Program Management for Huawei Technologies & MTN. He has a solid understanding of IT and telecom operator business after working more than 10 years in IT Operations and the customer service space. As an American working in Africa, he has worked in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, DRC, Zambia, Madagascar, South Africa, Angola, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana & Morocco and while in Europe he has worked in Germany, Hungary, and now Sofia Bulgaria.
If you dug deeper into his background you would find that he has a strong drive for applying structured methodologies of excellence in service delivery including ITIL and Project Management. He has have created 2 startups at the same time that closes some of the many gaps that exist in Africa. His first adventure at being an entrepreneur started with CloudBPOServices.com where he hires primarily Africans to perform work from home customer services jobs, like Back Office Services, Customer Care, Technical Support and a host of other services at a very affordable rate for our customers. As this service is running and providing global support now for a host of small and midsized companies.
Then he created Africaprepay.com, with this he has created a service that addresses the need to connect African Diaspora travelers with family members back in their home countries. Allowing them to stay in touch with friends and family back in Africa. The application is on both the Google Play Store & the Apple App Store. This application allows users to send Airtime, Pay Bills, Send Mobile Money (unique to the African market) and to transfer Money to your bank account from anyplace on the planet. So instead of going to multiple platforms or paying high fees you can provide help to someone quick, safe and directly.
He has joined Tingo Group to lead the Tingo Technology to success in 2020 and beyond.
Mr. Simms received his Masters degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of South Florida in 1992.
Pedro Romero
Group Chief Operations Officer
Pedro Romero
Group Chief Operations Officer
Pedro Romero, has over 15 years of experience in leadership managing operations in IT, Telecommunications and Call Center businesses, with a long track of management of multicultural teams in Central Eastern Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa. In companies like Huawei, MNT, Telcel, and DELL Technologies, one of the world’s largest personal computer vendors. He focuses on building, leading and supporting an engaged and high performing operational management team capable of driving excellent service delivery at all times. His expertise in operations management extends to different types of projects and operations including but not limited to IT Support for software and hardware products, Customer Service in the Banking Sector, IT Operations in the Telecommunications, Recruiting and Headhunting businesses, and others. He is a graduate of Electronics and Communications Engineering, proficient in the use of waterfall and agile project management, and speaks Spanish, Italian, English and Romanian.
Mr. Romero graduated in 2005 with a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico (Mexico).
Rory Bowen
Group Chief of Staff
Rory Bowen
Group Chief of Staff
Rory started his career in 2011 spending the majority of this time in traditional capital and derivatives markets working for Moneycorp and Compagnie Financière Tradition (Tradition UK) in both European and Emerging Markets across foreign exchange (FX), interest rate derivative and government bond markets. His most recent role from April 2019 to April 2020 was Chief of Staff at FinTech Alliance in London, an organisation established in partnership with the UK Government to support the combined missions of HM Treasury and the Department for International Trade foster innovation, growth and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the financial services sector and facilitate greater public/private cooperation. Rory Has also spent time with one of Europe fastest growing Fintech’s Banking Circle Rory takes great fulfilment from helping executives and next generation leaders achieve their full potential and works closely with our executive team to develop innovative strategies to ensure growth.
Board of Directors
Peter Barker
Chairman of the Board
Peter Barker
Chairman of the Board
Peter, Chairman of the Board of Directors, is a founding shareholder and is our Chairman of the Board. He is also on the Audit committee. Mr. Barker is a seasoned financial executive who has experience in management consulting in multiple business sectors. Throughout his forty-year career he has conceptualized, developed, coordinated, financed, and successfully managed domestic and international operations in both profit and non-profit companies. For the past five years, he has been Managing Director of an art consultancy dealing in the works of Old Masters to Modern and Blue-chip Contemporary artists. Prior thereto was the CFO of two publicly traded companies; Andersen Group a New York, NY based investment company, and Greater China Corporation, also based in New York. Early in his career, he formed a Wall St. reinsurance firm that specialized in innovative coverages and programs. In the non- profit sector, he served as Executive Director in a ground-breaking cultural organization that stimulated economic change through the arts, working closely with the local schools, their faculty and community leaders.
Mr. Barker received his BA in Political Science from Colorado College in 1974.
Olusegun Aganga
Vice Chairman
Olusegun Aganga
Vice Chairman
Oluesegun Aganga, is a Chartered Accountant of repute with professional career extending over four decades in the financial services industry and in the public service. His experience covers a broad range of sectors in the economy including investment banking, investment advisory, traditional and alternative asset management, insurance, oil and gas, manufacturing and construction. He is the Chairman of 3V Partners, an investment holding and advisory company, Marina Express Train Services, a rail infrastrucre development company and he sits on a number of boards of directors including Leadway Pensure PFA and the Queens Commonwealth Trust in the UK. He was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in London and Senior Director at Ernst & Young, London. He was recognized by Ernst and Young and European Commission as a subject matter expert for the hedge fund practice in Europe. Within the public sector, he served first as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Economic Management Team from 2010 to 2011 and then from 2011 to 2015 as its Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments. He has been heavily involved in many transformational milestones in Nigeria including establishing the country’s sovereign wealth fund in 2011, issuance of the nation’s first Euro bond, structuring and funding the first standard gauge rail in the country and as a major contributor to making Nigeria a premier country for investments in Africa. He was the Chairman for the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF in 2010, and in 2011, he chaired the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, making him the first African to chair these two organisations.
Mr Aganga was a recipient of one of the highest national awards in Nigeria, the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) in 2011. He is a graduate of University of Ibadan (1977) and Oxford University (graduating class of Trinity, Term 2000).
Michael Paige
Secretary and General Counsel
Michael Paige
Secretary and General Counsel
Michael Paige, Washington D.C., has practiced corporate and securities law for over 40 years. He represents publicly traded companies that are reporting companies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as well as privately-held companies, on corporate and securities matters with regard to governance matters and private and public financings. Mr. Paige graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. degree in 1963, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1967. He started his law practice in New York City at Brown & Wood, New York, New York, in 1968 through 1974, when he moved to Washington D.C. From 1974 to 1979, Mr. Paige was in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy and predecessor agencies and worked on the regulatory regime that was initiated following the 1973-1974 Arab oil embargo. Following the Department of Energy, returned to a securities and corporate law practice, also representing a number of U.S. oil companies and several foreign governments. He joined Jackson & Campbell, P.C. August 1999, for five years was of counsel to the firm, and has continued to work with the firm on corporate and tax matters. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.
Dr. Onyekachi Onubogu
Director
Dr. Onyekachi Onubogu
Director
Dr. Onyekachi Onubogu, has had over 25years in the Marketing, Sales and the Financial service space and has led the development and growth of many household brands in Africa.
He began his career in Procter and Gamble, where he worked between 1995 and 2005, and in the ten-year period worked on various brands and various categories in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. In 2005, he returned to Nigeria with Diageo to manage the Malta Guinness and subsequently the Guinness brands He was with Diageo from 2005 to 2007 as a Marketing manager responsible for Diageo’s flagship brand in Africa Guinness. His work at Guinness he was involved in the multiple award-winning Greatness campaign and the ‘Udeme’ brand personification, which saw the brand grow significantly in Nigeria making the Nigerian market Diageo’s third largest market for the Guinness brand globally.
He would later move back to South Africa to manage the paper care business for Kimberly Clark, South Africa, and then Nairobi, Kenya between 2008 and 2010 to lead the consumer goods investment arm of a Russian Private equity firm, Prosperity Capital Management based in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Onubogu returned to Nigeria in 2010 with Promasidor (the largest indigenous African Dairy and consumer brands FMCG business) as General manager marketing and rose to the position of Executive Director responsible for Sales, Marketing and Logistics for the organization and a member of the board. Between 2010 and 2017 for seven years, he led the launch and repositioning of Promasidor brands and also was instrumental in the Pre-planning and acquisition of Promasidor shares by Ajinomoto Japan in 2017.
In September 2017, he was appointed group Executive Director in the TGI group in Nigeria and in a period of 2 years led the conceptualization, production and market launch of Terra seasoning cubes and Golden Terra Soya Oil. He also created the B2C arm of their business which managed product distribution in categories from Food (Big Bull Rice, Oils and Cubes) to Home Care products. He held that position until September 2019. In February 2020, he was appointed CEO of Frutta Juice and Services, one of the leading fruit drinks manufacturing outfits in Nigeria. He is also on the board of various companies in food manufacturing, Technology, Micro lending and the financial services space in Nigeria, the UK and South Africa, and runs a full-service business advisory and consultancy practice, Zuriel consulting. Dr. Onubogu is also currently a faculty member of the Rome business School in Nigeria, was an Executive Committee member of the Advertisers Association Of Nigeria (ADVAN) and is a Fellow and current council member of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria.
Dr. Onubogu holds a B.sc in Physics from the University of Jos (1993), an MBA from the Gordon’s Institute of Business Sciences in the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2006), an Advanced Management Program certificate from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania (2012) and a Doctorate degree from the SBS Swiss Business School in Zurich Switzerland (2019).
Leslie Kasumba
Director
Leslie Kasumba
Director
Leslie Nabunya Kasumba, age 40, was appointed to our board of Directors on the 19th June 2020, she is an Africa Creative Industry Specialist and Culture Anthropologist. As a Media Executive and Pan African Broadcaster, with close to 19 years of experience, Lee Kasumba as she is known in the Creative Sector started her career at the age of 19 years old in radio. Her accomplishments and highlights include her role as one of the curators of South African hip-hop, and she is a Hip-hop Wall of Fame Inductee. Her work as Head of Channel O Africa put her at the centre of the Nigerian music movement that has now become a global phenomenon, while also working in other key music territories across West, East and Central Africa, making her one of the most influential voices and forecasters in this sector. She was the youngest, only female and longest standing magazine editor for the award winning YMAG. And in her earlier years was part of an Africa Delegation that worked with UN Habitat in Spain, Norway and Canada to address Millennium Development Goals from the perspective of young Africans. She was also selected to interview Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for the First MTV Base Meets. She was an executive producer of Big Brother Africa, with the task of curating Sunday Night performances on the biggest TV Night in Africa and is directly responsible for breaking out some of Africa’s biggest acts. She is also credited by the former Managing Director of Mnet Africa, Madam Biola Alabi, for being the brains behinds the idea of the expansion of the Africa Magic Channel’s Urban Division. She is currently the MD of She Speaks Africa, a podcaster for the Prime Media Group with the hugely successful Podcast ‘Africa State of Mind’ that has spoken to some of the most powerful voices across Africa, including the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam & the award-winning CNN International Senior Correspondent Nima Elbagir. She is a much called on Keynote Speaker and Moderator for conventions that are centred around Africa and its new emerging role in the global space.
In 2020 Ms Kasumba has been invited to deliver a keynote speech for AUDU-Nepad to talk about the importance of the Creative sector and policy in Africa, moderate a high level panel discussion for WAGS (Women and girls summit) supported by United Nations Women. She was chair for Conversations on Culture in Africa that featured the CEO of Ladol amongst other esteemed panelists. She’s been appointed Business Transformation Consultant for Ghana’s largest youth agency, Marketing and Strategy for Dominion TV that broadcasts from Ghana to the African continent and Diaspora, under the leadership of Dr Rosa Whitaker. She is also been appointed as part of the nominating committee for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards.
Ms. Kasumba received a BA in Dramatic Arts Degree from the University of Witwatersrand South Africa in 2004. She is self- proclaimed Afro-optimist who believes in the future of the great continent of Africa.
Wale Adebayo
Director
Wale Adebayo
Director
Wale Adebayo, was appointed to our Board of Directors on January 21, 2020. He has both local and international Investment Banking experience in New York, Dubai and Nigeria. His experience cut across Sales (Fixed Income, Currency, Commodity and Equities), Structuring, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Treasury, Risk Management, Operations and Asset Management. He has also been involved in various mining and mining investment activities in Southern Africa. In 2012, he founded Nissi-Lloyds Capital after leaving FBN Capital where he was the Group Head of Institutional Sales. Prior to FBN Capital, Wale was an Associate Director at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Global Markets from 2008 to 2011. He was responsible for the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Derivatives Sales and Structuring across sub-Sahara Africa and involved in transactions across Sub-Sahara Africa and in South Africa. He later moved to Nigeria to run the Financial Institutions Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Sales and Derivatives business for Standard Chartered Global Markets. Prior to SCB, Wale also worked at UBS Investment Bank in New York and Stamford, Connecticut, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Oceanic Bank Nigeria Plc (now ECO Bank).
Mr. Adebayo received his MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 2008 and his BSc in Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in 2000
Derrick Emeka Randall
Director and Secretary
Derrick Emeka Randall
Director and Secretary
Derrick Emeka Randall, age 53, was appointed to our Board of Directors on January 21, 2020, and is a seasoned marketing executive with more than 20 years of accomplishments in his field. He is currently the Chief Marketing Officer for vTree, which is a solar charging device that connects to the internet and is able to recharge cell phones, gadgets and electric vehicles coupled with the ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. He has been spent much of his career working as a marketing specialist within telecoms and a host of other industries. He was head of UK marketing Intelligence for Michelin from April 1997- January 2001. From January 2001 – March 2004 he was Head of global marketing for TDK Systems. During this time, he was a significant contributor to the global education and adoption of Bluetooth technology. From April 2004 – March 2005 he was Head of International Marketing at T-Mobile International. From April 2005 to January 2007 he was Commercial Director for Digicel. From 2007 – 2009 he worked as Marketing Director for two social media app companies EQO Mobile and Palringo After this, he spent much of his time focused on working with mobile operators in emerging markets. From 2009 to 2011 he worked as Vice President of Upstream Mobile Marketing based in London, and from 2011-2012 he worked as Director of Sales Velti. In both of these companies Derrick worked with many mobile operators in Sub-Saharan Africa. From 2012 to 2014 he worked in the contextual marketing space as Business Development Director for Amplero (formerly Globys). Since 2014 Derrick has worked as Non-Executive for Hiipe, a mobile messenger app company based in the U.S. and also consults on telecoms projects for a boutique consultancy called TKonsult, whose head office is based in Dubai. Derrick is also a Non-Executive Director for a Graduate Recruitment company called the Veea Group.
Mr. Randall achieved an upper second class honours degree in International Relations from the University of Keele in 1992 and went onto to receive an MBA from the University of Sheffield in 1993.
