Bio

Mike Ogbalu III has more than eight years of sound IT industry experience in planning, deployment, and management of enterprise-wide infrastructure, as well as more than 15 years’ banking experience in Retail Banking, Commercial Banking and E-Business. He managed the E-Business Group of Afribank (now Polaris Bank) and represented Afribank on the boards of Valucard Nigeria (now UPSL) and ATMC. Mike spent the last six years in Payments and Technology joining Interswitch Group initially as Divisional CEO – Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services, where he was responsible for driving a mandate to create the largest agent network and thereby becoming a prime facilitator of financial inclusion in Nigeria. Later, he moved on to make Africa’s most successful card scheme truly pan-African and expand its footprint globally as Chief Executive Officer of Verve International. Today, as CEO of PAPSS, he is overseeing the building of a continent-wide payment infrastructure that will help to accelerate trade on the continent. Mike is an Electrical/Electronic Engineer with an MBA from the prestigious Lagos Business School. He is currently a board member of the mobile payments scheme board, an advisory board member of the Bridge International Academies, a Grand Patron of IAMCP-WIT Nigeria (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners – Women in Technology) and a Fellow of The International Academy of Cards and Payments. In 2012, he was recognized with the award of Card Personality of Year for his work at Ecobank.