Dojah, the African KYC and user onboarding platform, has hired former Mono Head of Business Development, Elder Osifo as VP, Sales, and Partnerships.
The former Mono and Interswitch employee has over 10 years of experience across sales, business development, and partnership roles. While at Interswitch, he created and managed strategic plans that resulted in significantly exceeding gross margin targets and increasing market share across West Africa.
He was directly accountable for driving compelling value propositions around Interswitch’s solutions and offerings to C-level executives and other buying influences within the financial services sector. His role involves acquiring the customer within a win-win business deal.
Similar to his work at Mono; Elder would be setting up a pan-African sales network for Dojah across Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, South Africa, Rwanda, and Tanzania among other countries. This would strengthen our expansion goals and build our position as Africa’s foremost identity services company.
Osifo said,
“Dojah is playing a very pivotal role in helping Africans trust and engage essential products and services that they need. I look forward to the challenge of connecting major businesses in the African ecosystem to Dojah’s onboarding and identity verification APIs.”
Tobi Ololade, CEO of Dojah commented,
“Elder is an exciting addition to our team and we have the utmost confidence in the results he would be able to achieve for our growth as a company.”
Ololade believes he will bring a vast network of quality business relationships to the sales team and will be a great partner for other employees and vendors who come into contact with him.
Founded in 2021 by Tobi Ololade and Ayomide Oso, Dojah has the single goal of empowering scale and innovation for businesses in Africa, so that more lives are impacted through technology by providing a unified KYC and digital onboarding solution for organizations looking to scale across Africa.
The Lagos-based startup was a part of the YC 2022 winter batch. Prior to joining YC, the startup reached new milestones by integrating onboarding and KYC endpoints for five African countries—Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. The startup claimed to have powered identity verification for over 400 businesses and has verified more than 4 million identities across Africa’s major economies.
