Bio

Entrepreneur - CEO - Author - Speaker - Former G20YES delegate Dr. Jeannot is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of Be Financial Group, a diversified investment holding focused on emerging markets, specifically Africa. Be Financial Group is the parent company of Be Mobile Africa, a ''challenger bank'' for the African market. Be Mobile Africa targets the unbanked and underbanked on the continent providing them free to low cost banking services. Its mission is to help the financial situation of 100 million people in Africa. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of APrivacy, an award-winning security company that provided the banking industry with an information security and tracking services. Dr. Jeannot is a frequent speaker at digital conferences worldwide on the topics of FinTech, Trade, Digital security, Impact investing and Poverty alleviation and has been quoted in a number of global press publications. He was named as one of 16 Most Promising Entrepreneur in Asia-Pacific by EY and served as a Canadian delegate to the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit for several years. Dr. Jeannot holds a PhD in Applied Security from the University of Louisville (USA), a Master in Computer Science from the University of Louisville (USA) and a Bachelor in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Montpellier (France).