Board Advisor / Payments, Fintech & Digital Growth
Damola
Giwa
“Damola advises Crimson Oak on digital commerce, payments, and the partnership strategies that turn technology led businesses into scaled, institutional platforms.”
Damola is a strategic business leader with more than two decades driving digital transformation and growth across payments, fintech, e commerce, and banking.
He is Country Manager for Visa in Nigeria, and has previously led digital banking at a major Nigerian asset management group, run payments across East and West Africa for a listed e commerce group, and headed card and digital new business lines at one of Africa's largest payment processors.
For Crimson Oak's clients he sharpens commercial architecture and go to market design, pressure tests digital revenue models, and opens the regulator, bank, and ecosystem relationships that decide whether a growth story becomes market infrastructure.
Notable Engagements
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Country Manager, Visa Nigeria, leading growth, client success, and market expansion across one of Visa's key markets.
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Former Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Digital Banking, at a leading Nigerian asset management holding company.
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Former Vice President and Managing Director for East and West Africa at the payments arm of a listed African e commerce group.
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Former Senior Director and Group Head for card and digital new business at a major African payment processor.
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Over twenty years across payments, fintech, e commerce, and banking, building high performing commercial teams and ecosystem partnerships.
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