Olugbenga Agboola professional backround spans over 17 years and six countries. He founded Flutterwave, a company that is revolutionizing financial transactions in Africa. Olugbenga believes: “collaboration across network boundaries enables everyone to unlock the full potential of their skillset.”
He has lived and worked on four continents. Olugbenga has held executive positions including CEO of Flutterwave, CTO of IBM Nigeria and IBM’s Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence in India.
Olugbenga Agboola has a B.Sc in Computer Science and an MBA, both from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. He is a five-time entrepreneur who has founded companies in Nigeria and India, and served as CTO at IBM Nigeria from 2008 to 2011.
His business focus focuses on enabling financial transactions across network boundaries using mobile technologies AirDroid, Flutterwave and Mercury Wallet.
He has been featured in The Week and the Huffington Post’s Social Impact Matrix. He is an advocate of entrepreneurship among African youth.
Olugbenga’s venture portfolio includes:
Olugbenga serves on the Board of Directors for several organizations including The Nigerian Stock Exchange, The Lagos Business School Advisory Council and TradeMark East Africa.
He is the author of “E-commerce for Dummies,” 2015 and was a contributing author for “Disrupting Africa: Mobile Money in Emerging Markets”, 2013.
Olugbenga is an avid soccer player. He enjoys running, playing golf and surfing in his free time.
>>>Flutterwave is the first multi-mobile, multi-country payments solution that enables users to make payments via multiple devices and platforms, at any time and from any place. Flutterwave can be used to transfer funds between phones, online bank accounts, bitcoin wallets and many other methods of payment. The platform uses an innovative technology called The Flux (from Flutterwave) that enables anyone with an internet connection to send money instantly from one device to another through a secure encrypted peer-to-peer network.
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Olu was featured on Forbes.com in their list of the Brainiest 25 young entrepreneurs in Africa. In 2011, he was named one of the top 100 African entrepreneurs under 40 by CNN for his vision of solving financial inclusion in Africa through technology. He was also mentioned on CNN’s “The Next Revolution” hosted by Soledad O’Brien where he talked about Mobile Money in Emerging Markets, Bitcoin and the future of mobile payments. He was an invited speaker at Microsoft Ignite 2013 where he spoke about Mobile Payments & The Future of Banking in Emerging Markets. He was also an invited speaker at Mobile World Congress 2014 where he spoke about Mobile Money in Emerging Markets. In 2014, he was named to the Financial Times 100 leading professionals in Africa.
In 2015, Olu made the shortlist of 20 entrepreneurs who have had a major impact on FinTech and Payments for being featured on the cover of Fintech Leaders Magazine (Issue 16). In 2016, he was named as one of the top 10 Most Inspiring Global Entrepreneurs by Seedstars World from Africa.
The Flux works by finding three nodes on a local network (such as WiFi) that are able to communicate with each other through a process called STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT).