Tayo Oviosu

Tayo Oviosu is a Nigerian-American businessman who is the founder and group CEO of Paga, a mobile payments company that is focused on digitizing cash in emerging economies.

He formerly served as Manager Corporate Development at Cisco Systems in San Jose California and was vice president at Travant Capital Partners in Lagos, Nigeria until 2009, when he started Paga where he is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer.

Oviosu is a graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Southern California.

[6][7] After graduating from USC, Oviosu started his career at Biomorphic VLSI as a Semiconductor Chip Design Engineer and then Event 411 as a Software Engineer all based in Los Angeles California.

[9] In 2008, he returned to Nigeria where he joined Travant Capital Partners and served as vice president.