Alvin Okari

Alvin holds a Bachelor BA degree from the University of Nairobi and is an alumni of Rutgers University business school graduate program. He is also an Alumni of University of Salford MSC in Financial Services and Management & a certified ACAMS professional. 

He has over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications, Fintech and the financial services sector. He joined Equity Group from Airtel Africa, where he was Head of Product and Operations (Airtel Africa) for 14 African countries and Director for Mobile Financial Services in Airtel Money Kenya with overall leadership of the business. 

Prior to joining Airtel, he was at MTN West Africa as the Director for Mobile Money for 2 years having joined to lead the Mobile money business for Guinea. He also worked in Millicom Tigo based out of the London office overseeing 6 African countries in both Anglo and Francophone as the Head of commercial and Products in 2015. 

Alvin has also worked in Safaricom PLC, MPESA as Snr Manager Product development for 5 years where he led the growth of the product offering as well as development and launch of micro lending and savings product Mkesho in partnership with Equity as well as M-shwari digital lending product in partnership with NCBA. He was also responsible for partnerships with banks for mobile banking integrations, bill payment and utility services as well as the set-up of the buy goods payment set up with large retailers. 

Prior to Safaricom, he held different IT and business roles with Celtel & Zain Kenya for 9 years ranging from credit control, customer provisioning and business intelligence management and reporting and IT project management. 

 

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Speaking in
IASP 2024
Breakout 5: The fintech sector and emerging funding models