Tayo Oviosu is a Nigerian-American businessman who is the

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and

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of Paga, a mobile payments company that is focused on digitizing cash in emerging economies.

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is Paga's first market. Oviosu obtained a master's degree in

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from the Graduate School of Business,

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. He formerly served as Manager Corporate Development at

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and was vice president at Travant Capital Partners in

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, Nigeria until 2009, when he started Paga where he is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer. Tayo Oviosu has also co-founded Kairos Angels.

Education

Oviosu is a graduate of

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from the

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. He also has a master's degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business,

in 2005.

Career

After graduating from USC, Oviosu started his career at Biomorphic VLSI as a Semiconductor Chip Design Engineer and then Event 411 as a Software Engineer all based in

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California. He later went to work for

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in the CRM and Technology practice as a Senior Consultant. After business school he joined

where he was responsible for strategy, acquisitions and private equity investments in a few segments and helped lead Cisco's investment expansion in

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with investment opportunities. He led investments and acquisitions which include the $130m acquisition of Reactivity and investment in Guardium (Database Security, Series C, sold to IBM). In 2008, he returned to

where he joined Travant Capital Partners and served as vice president. In 2009, he founded Paga to address the use of cash and expand financial access.

Personal life

He married Affiong Williams in 2014.

References

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