Tochukwu Egesi

Tochukwu is the head of payments and digital financial services consulting at Genesis Analytics. Before Genesis Analytics, he was an Associate Manager at Mastercard, where we led the sustainability and financial inclusion practice in the EEMEA region. His work has benefited clients such as Google, Microsoft, the National Bank of Rwanda, the African Development Bank, Mastercard, the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His recent projects include: - Retail banking strategy for Access Bank Group - National Savings and credit group digitalisation strategy for the National Bank of Rwanda - Rwanda National Payments Strategy - National Financial Inclusion Strategy, Banco de Moçambique - Evaluation of the framework for advancing Women's financial inclusion in Nigeria (FAWFIN) for the Central Bank of Nigeria and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors - Situation analysis of women's financial inclusion in an African country. - Market mapping of credit reference bureaus in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. - Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning technical assistance to the African Development Bank (AFDB) for its USD 100M financial inclusion facility - ADFI.  - Commercial due diligence of a payments fintech - Ukheshe  - Commercial due diligence of a digital bank in Nigeria -Innovation opportunity scoping for Microsoft's Africa Development Centre - Strategy for the Digitization of Financial Products for Cross-Border Traders in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe commissioned by FinMark Trust - Evaluation of Mastercard Foundation’s Scale2Save Program - A USD 16m financial inclusion program in 6 African countries - Morocco, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire - Market Scanning for BIN Sponsorship opportunities for a global card network and a pan-African bank - Feasibility study and design of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for the Reserve Bank of South Africa - Italy and Spain market entry strategy for a German bank - Travel product strategy for Mastercard in Western Europe - Digital banking strategy for Selcom in Tanzania - Customer segmentation study for a Nordic bank - M&A market assessment for a global technology startup - Embedded financial services strategy for Standard Bank South Africa (SBSA) - Investment strategy development for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) at Mastercard Tochukwu holds a master's in Inclusive Innovation from the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business and is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town.