Experience

RoutePay

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO/Co- Founder

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  RoutePay's focus is to address the current challenges faced by parties involved in a digital payment transaction. We call these challenges "Pain Points" and the plan is to develop and deploy solutions that addresses the "Pain Points" while maintaining the company's vision and mission. You are all welcome to the world of payments without pains. RoutePay's focus is to address the current challenges faced by parties involved in a digital payment transaction. We call these challenges "Pain Points" and the plan is to develop and deploy solutions that addresses the "Pain Points" while maintaining the company's vision and mission. You are all welcome to the world of payments without pains.



Cyberspace Limited

• Hong Kong
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head, Financial Technology, CyberPay

  • Jul 2018 - Dec 2021



Zoto

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head, Payments and Business Support

  • Jun 2016 - May 2018

  • Identifying core industry (financial services and technology) challenges and subscribers’ needs and strategically deploy mobile payment solutions to create value for clients and grow revenue. • Creating and deploying payment products and services via merchant aggregation targeting subscribers’ (existing and potential) lifestyles and habits. • Developing sales plans and drive acceptance and adoption of new products and services • Preparing workshops and consulting programs for Zoto Mobile payment products and services to increase product awareness and cultivate close relationship with key accounts and their senior management. • Monitoring and ensuring high transaction payment success rate across all card schemes and banks partnering with Zoto. Ensuring transactions are sailing seamlessly and promptly addressing failure issues when they occur. • Developing and deploying plans for subscribers’ acquisition, retention and manage subscribers’ churn. • Growing existing market share by on-boarding new merchants and payment services. • Building and managing a loyalty/Customer Incentive program targeted at enhancing frequency of subscribers’ patronage. •Creating and maintaining good relationship with regulatory authorities by ensuring compliance with guidelines. Show less



Interswitch Limited

• Lagos

• Head, Acceptance and Acquirer Management

  • Apr 2013 - May 2016

  Abayomi is the Go To’ person for acquiring and acceptance business development. Ensuring alignment between individual markets ‘go-to-market’ approaches and the overall company’s acquiring and acceptance strategy with considerations to the company’s longer term strategic initiatives. Signing acceptance deals with major acquirers and networks around the world to facilitate the usage of Verve cards in the top-10 destination markets for Nigerians. Establishing new partnership / vendor/ enabler / joint venture integration with capabilities to sustain Verve’s competitive advantage and tracking performance against key objectives. Show less



Ecobank Transnational Incorporated

• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head, Card Business

  • Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

  Responsibility manager for card issuing business. Drive issued card volume and revenue through various adoption and usage strategies. Responsibility manager for card issuing business. Drive issued card volume and revenue through various adoption and usage strategies.



Ecobank Nigeria Limited

• Lagos, Nigeria.

• Head, Affinities and Co-branded Cards

  • Oct 2011 - Nov 2012

  Develop and manage card based close user group schemes and affinities. Drive development and management of co-branded card schemes. Develop and manage card based close user group schemes and affinities. Drive development and management of co-branded card schemes.



Intercontinental Bank PLC

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product and Business Development Executive, Cards

  • Nov 2008 - Oct 2011

  A card product and business development startegiest with vast experience in card schemes/products projects and high level presentation/marketing of niche markets. Authored various documents/papers on e-banking product development, management turn-around marketing strategies, Request for proposals, Business requirement documentation, and Content materials for product campaign and awareness creation. A card product and business development startegiest with vast experience in card schemes/products projects and high level presentation/marketing of niche markets. Authored various documents/papers on e-banking product development, management turn-around marketing strategies, Request for proposals, Business requirement documentation, and Content materials for product campaign and awareness creation.



Intercontinental Bank PLC

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Domestic card business development executive

  • Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

  Charged with the responsibilities for growing issued card volumes, increase activation/usage and attributable income. Conduct periodic market reviews and surveys to identify potential customers’ needs and expectations for domestic card products. To conduct periodic product performance review in order to monitor performance against set growth target and objectives. Charged with the responsibilities for growing issued card volumes, increase activation/usage and attributable income. Conduct periodic market reviews and surveys to identify potential customers’ needs and expectations for domestic card products. To conduct periodic product performance review in order to monitor performance against set growth target and objectives.



Access Bank Plc

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Development Officer

  • Jul 2003 - Feb 2005