About our speakers

About our speakers

Ababacar Deme

International Business Developement Director

OPay

I started my career 19 years ago in the FMCG and mass market distribution for Coca Cola West Africa Retailer in Senegal . Subsequently, I Headed the International Remittance Operations for Money Express, one of the first International Money transfer Companies based in Senegal, covering 16 countries downstream, terminating remittances from the Euro, GBP and USD zone.

I then Joined Wari SA ( 26 countries) in 2012 as Retail Network Manager and successively Headed the Operations, Business Development , Sales for West and Central Africa during 8 years . I joined Opera Software AS in 2019 as Business Development Director for Francophone Africa, and then Opay ( an Opera Group Company ) in April 2020, I was relocated in Egypt to launch Opay operations in northern Africa, what I gladly participated to get done in January 2021. I then Joined our HQ in Lagos as International Business development Director . 

I’m a football player, I like jazz music, enjoy cinema, reading and still conducting research on Financial inclusion and crypto currencies.


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