About Damisi Busari

Damisi Busari has demonstrable competence in a broad range of business functions. Her experience in tech cuts across working as a redress case handler for Deloitte, design researcher for the Telegraph Media Group and UX designer for One Finance & Investment. She also held key positions like product manager, strategy manager, global head, customer experience, and head of commercial alliances and strategy at fintech company Flutterwave. However, the techpreneur's drive to use technology to solve problems and her first-hand knowledge of the challenges of sending money to Africa led her to launch a payment solution in February 2022. Busari had a special affection for computer games, which later influenced her decision to study an IT and Business Information course at Middlesex University, United Kingdom.  Although friends and family had urged her to pursue a career in law because of her conversational nature, she quickly realised she wasn't cut out for that type of world after she attended a few court sessions to check out lawyers and judges. During her undergraduate studies, a course introduced her to the concept of design thinking and helped her appreciate the real-world application of the numerous ideas in her head. By this time, she was not particularly interested in writing code, but Busari had developed a keen interest in the human side of technology and how consumers' use of phones and other devices impact them. Busari has fond memories of working as a design researcher at the Telegraph in the UK, where she investigated the influence fonts can have on a user's readability on a website or mobile device. After a long time in the diaspora, Damisi Busari moved back to Nigeria, where she worked at some start-ups, including payment giant, Flutterwave. She spent the longest stint of her career at the company, spanning over 7 years. This experience was pivotal in her understanding of payment infrastructure, global payments and what powers it, and the true costs involved. It also opened her eyes to opportunities to provide a better consumer experience.