The Team

Wadivo was founded by Moyo Kamgaing, an international banker with over 30 years of experience in Africa and a successful entrepreneur. He assembled a quality team of individuals with a passion for consumer rights and a combined experience of over 200 years in the banking and tech sectors in Africa and Europe.

Moyo Kamgaing

(Founder)

Moyo Kamgaing

Moyo Kamgaing is an ex-banker with over 35 years of banking experience in Africa. He worked for various institutions over the years including Bankers Trust (London), BNP Paribas (Bahrain) and more recently Ecobank (Lagos) where he headed the Investment Bank subsidiary EDC. His work over the years involved raising finance and advising public and private sector clients. He pioneered many landmark deals over time in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya and South Africa.

He is also an entrepreneur. In 1995, he started Sydmor, one of the first African owned finance boutiques in London, and in 2003, Cashmopolitan, the first money transfer company in the world using mobile phones.

Moyo is a graduate of HEC Paris (1983) and has a MSc from the Sloan School at MIT (1986)

Eloner Habtezghi

(Advisor)

Eloner Habtezghi

Eloner Habtezghi has a multi-disciplinary background with 25 years’ experience of M&A advisory, capital markets and engineering. She served in key roles at BNP Paribas, Bank of America and JPMorgan, advising multinational and financial clients. She has been directly involved in originating and executing $5 billion worth of cross-border strategic M&A transactions. On the capital markets side, she has arranged over $60 billion in issuances. She began her career as a reservoir engineer for Phillips Petroleum.

Furthermore, Ms. Habtezghi is committed to advancing the economic development of Africa. She has served as an advisor to SMEs and brings that experience, and her background in the East Africa region.

Eloner holds an MBA from SMU and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oklahoma, USA.

Pascal Isbell

(Advisor)

Pascal Isbell

Pascal Isbell has spent his career building businesses from start-up. For Salomon Brothers and Nomura in London, he conceived and developed the European equity advisory businesses. At Credit Lyonnais, he turned around its European equity operations and formed a very successful high growth and technology broking group. By 2000, he had created a vehicle within Credit Lyonnais UK to co-invest in early-stage technology companies while mentoring them on strategic development and funding strategies.

He co-founded LANCEA in 2005, running corporate advisory services and venture consulting, while remaining an active business angel. Pascal is an IC member for Isomer Capital, a European venture fund of funds group he has advised since inception.

Pascal has an MBA from The Wharton School.

Dahiru Ado-Kurawa

(Wadivo Nigeria)

Dahiru Ado-Kurawa

Dahiru Ado Kurawa started his career as a banker and specialised in treasury and money markets, reaching the position of Treasurer. Currently a director in various companies and Chairman Presidential Committee on Trade Malpractices.

With experience in finance, business and service to the public, he was a founding board member of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and had held numerous memberships in other high level government committees in the Presidency spanning over the 20 years.

Dahiru Ado Kurawa holds a degree in Computing and a Post Graduate Diploma in Leadership with distinction from Emeritus, a collaborative programme held by Tuck, Columbia and MIT. He has attended numerous executive training courses and programmes including the highly respected INSEAD European Institute.

He brings a wealth of experience in finance, computing and law enforcement.

The Team

Moyo Kamgaing

Eloner Habtezghi

Pascal Isbell

Dahiru Ado-Kurawa

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