April Flora Stephenson

April Flora Stephenson has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. April Flora is currently the Founder & CEO of Simba Technologies, a position they have held since February 2022. April Flora is also the Women Entrepreneurs Program Lead at LSE Generate, starting in July 2022. Prior to their current roles, they were a Founder Fellow at On Deck in June 2021.

April has also worked at Amazon as a Program Manager for Amazon Pay, where they managed merchant risk and drove operational excellence projects. April Flora worked at Amazon from February 2021 to April 2022.

Before Amazon, April was a Product Risk & Governance Manager at PayPal, where they oversaw legal, compliance, and policy aspects of new product launches. April Flora served as a liaison between business functions and regulatory functions. April Flora'stenure at PayPal was from April 2018 to September 2019.

April's earlier experiences include roles at Venmo, where they created the payment disputes program and managed fraud and risk policies and operations. April Flora also worked as a Product Manager at New York Daily News and as a Content & Communications personnel at Analog Analytics (a Barclaycard business). In addition, they served as a Program Coordinator at the University of California San Diego's Center for Ethics & Spirituality.

Overall, April Flora Stephenson has a strong background in entrepreneurship, program management, risk management, and product development in the technology and finance industries.

April Flora Stephenson completed their education with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2020. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Anthropology and Literature/Writing from UC San Diego in 2010. April Flora also obtained additional certifications, including the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme from the University of Oxford (year not specified) and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance in 2019.