Akeem Lawal, MD of Payment Processing & Switching at Interswitch

Akeem Lawal

MD, Payment Processing & Switching, Interswitch Purepay

INTERSWITCH GROUP

Technology Executive, Fintech Executive

Akeem Lawal is a founding member of Interswitch’s management team and a senior technology and payments executive who joined the company in 2002. He currently serves as Managing Director, Payment Processing & Switching at Interswitch Purepay, where he leads a major payments business responsible for innovations in Nigeria’s digital payments ecosystem. Before Interswitch, he worked with Oildata Services in Port Harcourt and TELNET as a Senior Engineer. He holds a first-class degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin and an MBA from Lagos Business School. He is also an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow.

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Fintech • Nigeria

INTERSWITCH GROUP

Interswitch Group is a Nigerian-founded financial technology and digital commerce company established in 2002 by Mitchell Elegbe. The company developed payment infrastructure connecting financial institutions and businesses and…

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