Martin Warioba

Martin Warioba is Founder and Managing Partner at Warioba Ventures, Africa-focused advisory and investment firm that provides advisory in corporate strategy, investment, project management, payments, risk management and technology. In addition, Warioba Ventures invests in early-stage startups, out of Tanzania as well as in East Africa, and builds sustainable ecosystem to support fintech and technology-related startups focusing on tackling Africa’s great challenges. Martin oversees management and operations of Warioba Ventures.

He has 22 years experience in Information Technology, corporate management and payments, both as consultant, executive, project manager and software developer. Martin is one of key Payments and Digital Financial Services (DFS) experts in Africa and he was instrumental in development of payment scheme rules for world’s first mobile wallet-to-mobile wallet interoperability between Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Tanzania as well as Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. He advices Central Banks, Commercial Banks, MNOs, FinTech, Startups, Public and Private Sector, NGOs on Corporate Strategy, Digital Economy, DFS Interoperability, Payments, Policy & Regulations, Risk Management and Technology.