Naeem E. Kola

Naeem was appointed as the Group Chief Financial Officer on March 1, 2022. He has held progressively senior finance roles across the Middle East and Africa, based from Dubai, most notably as Chief Financial Officer of Emerging Markets Payments Group (EMP), a high-growth fintech business that grew materially and successfully concluded and integrated five acquisitions during Naeem's six-year tenure as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, Naeem was Senior Vice President for Investments, Strategy and Business Planning at EMP. Since the acquisition of EMP by Network International in 2017, Naeem was an Operations Director and Strategic Advisor to the emerging market private equity firm Actis, where he again focused on fintech businesses.