Romana Rajput

Romana is the country General manager at  Interswitch EA Kenya Ltd where she leads  the Interswitch business in Kenya. She is a seasoned market leader in the payment industry in Kenya and across different African Markets.

Romana has over 30 years’ experience in identifying new business opportunities, cultivating business relationships, and spearheading effective  market penetration strategies in the financial technology world. She has developed and implemented projects in various industries including banking and insurance within East and Southern Africa.

She setup the PMO office for Kenya; managed operations, business development and sales; led a strategic Mobile Payment project, various Third-Party Processing integrations; PCI DSS and EMV Issuing Migration projects for Interswitch Kenya. Before Interswitch, she worked with the Group Technology team at Standard Chartered Bank for over 10 years, leading IT Disaster Recovery; IT Service Management and Service Delivery for Kenya Centralization. She was pivotal to the success of IT projects across 12 countries in Africa and various retail banking projects.

She also led the development of Insurance Management Systems for Amarco Kenya Ltd and developed and maintained numerous systems at Data Centre, the first computer bureau in East Africa. Romana is a value-driven leader who enjoys supporting business growth across Africa.