Obiora Emetarom 2022 speaker

Co-Founder/CEO

AppZone Limited

Biography

Obiora Emetarom is a serial tech entrepreneur who has focused his entire career on the Fintech space in Africa. For his first venture in 2004 (fresh out of college), Obiora Emetarom co-founded Parkway projects as a provider of bespoke fintech solutions for commercial Banks in Nigeria and grew the venture to over a million dollars in revenue before he exited.

In 2008, Obiora Emetarom cofounded Appzone and since then has led the creation of a number of innovative startups within Appzone including a bespoke Fintech software business, Africa’s first Banking SaaS platform on the cloud, Africa’s first card management system and card vending machine as well as Africa’s first private Blockchain network for payment in Fiat and regulated digital currencies.

Obiora Emetarom has led Appzone’s expansion to a combined team size of 300+ servicing 500+ Banks in 7 African countries. In addition, he has raised combined funding of USD15million for the company since its inception and secured critical regulatory licenses and global certifications like PCI DSS, ISO27001, PSSP License, EFT Switching License, and Super-Agent license to enable operations as a Fintech solution provider in Nigeria.

Obiora Emetarom is now super-focused on Appzone’s most recent venture and now main business focus which is to build out cheap, fast, reliable and scalable payment infrastructure for Africa’s cashless economy on Blockchain with support for Fiat and regulated digital currencies.

To achieve this, Obiora Emetarom and team are innovating at the cutting edge to unlock mass adoption of digital currencies and DeFi through compliance with regulation, interoperability with the existing financial ecosystem and very simplified user interactions that ordinary people can relate with.