Philips is the Cofounder/CEO at Payfi, a buy-now-pay-later startup, democratizing access to credit for millennials. Payfi’s vision is to make life easier for Africans living across different African countries by creating different payment options for those who can’t afford certain products & services at the moment due to financial obligations. Philips just completed a $1m fundraising round last month and he will be sharing insights on The Path to Scale.
Payfi
Cofounder/CEO
Philips is a Technology Strategist and Business Executive with over 10 years of business and engineering experience in fields ranging from Banking, FinTech, Software development, and IT Consulting. He is very passionate about agile software development, Cloud computing, Distributed Workplace, and Management Consulting.
Philips currently leads the team at Payfi as the Chief Execut…
Philips is a Technology Strategist and Business Executive with over 10 years of business and engineering experience in fields ranging from Banking, FinTech, Software development, and IT Consulting. He is very passionate about agile software development, Cloud computing, Distributed Workplace, and Management Consulting.
Philips currently leads the team at Payfi as the Chief Executive Officer having previously lead the technology team at Bankly as the Chief Technology Officer where he champions the tech delivery of all major products and services.
Philips had previously worked at Woven Finance as the engineering manager where he led the entire engineering team in delivering the corporate payment infrastructure that currently serves more than 200 businesses across the country.
At Firstbank, Philips leads the software engineering teams in building payment products for both corporates and retail consumers, and prior to working with FirstBank, he was a Partner Engineering Manager at Andela where he had the privilege of delivering successes on various Andela partner’s engagement distributed across different locations in the United States, Canada, and the UK.
He also worked as a senior software developer at Access Bank(Technical Team Lead) and Guaranty Trust Bank plc where he built various payments and CRM products.
Philips holds a Master's degree in Information Technology from the University of Lagos, NG, a former alumnus from APTECH and NIIT where he studied Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering and Computer Networking respectively.
He is skilled in leading high-performing engineering teams, mentoring, project management, system development, and talent grooming.
He is a big advocate of best practices in Distributed Workplace and work-life balance and believes for your business to scale faster, move it to the cloud.
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