Ola Raheem (He/Him)

Ola Raheem has spent the last 7+ years building and scaling sales teams, hitting bold revenue goals, setting up B2B partnerships and designing growth strategies across Nigeria’s fintech and lending landscape.

He works at the intersection of revenue, credit and execution, helping companies move from scanty merchant activity to structured and performing portfolios. Regardless of what he is working on, be that leading high-performing finance sales reps, launching GTM strategies or designing sales systems that reduce default, Ola Raheem always thinks in one direction: sustainable, scalable growth.

He has directly contributed to tens of billions of naira in loan disbursements, built commercial partnerships with trade platforms and associations, embedded-finance startups and maintained consistent portfolio performance at 95/99% repayment rates. Ola Raheem's playbooks combine field coaching, smart territory design and cross functional execution with product, credit and ops teams.

He is motivated by delivering real impact for SMEs in Nigeria and across Africa generally whether that is through responsible lending or cross-border payments/FX flows.

Open to conversations around commercial leadership, sales execution and unlocking liquidity for African businesses through fintech.