Akeem Olujinmi Lawal is part of the founding management team at Interswitch Group and currently leads the Transaction Switching & Payments Processing (Purepay) division of The Interswitch Group as Managing Director where is responsible for the business line that contributes about half of the group’s revenue. He is a first class graduate in engineering with business degrees from the prestigious Lagos business school and the IESE business school of the University of Navarra, Spain.

With over twenty (23) years’ experience in electronic payments, payments technology, strategy and business management, his experience includes the Financial Technology, Information and Communications Technology as well as Technology in the Oil & Gas industry. He was the head of the Engineering team that built the Interswitch Super Switch infrastructure, and as a business leader, has been responsible for building and managing several business lines in his career and also for the successful launch of several innovative products into the African Fintech Ecosystem.

Akeem is an enthusiast of the intelligent use of technology for the transformation of Africa. He has a passion is for creative endeavour and ground-breaking innovation. He is responsible for some of the innovations driving the payments industry in Nigeria today.