Munyi Nthigah is a payments evangelist with over 18 years’ experience in the Technology space in Africa, 14 of which have been in the digital payment space and 4 years in digital lending and Agriculture Technology. Munyi is currently an Executive Director at Ketha Africa, an AgriTech firm that digitizes various Agriculture value chains and is working to transform agriculture in Africa through sustainable financing. He heads growth at Ketha Africa and is working with small holder farmers in the Macadamia, Dairy and Tea sectors to create efficiencies in the value chains and develop custom digital financial services products for all actors in the value chain. Munyi is also an Associate member of the Africa Fintech Network which is a network of 34+ African Fintech Associations. He also serves as the General Secretary of the Association of Fintechs in Kenya and sits on the board of Tusenti, a Fintech focused on value added payments and Nairobi South College, a tertiary institution in the hospitality space. Munyi studied Economics at the University of Nairobi and is an Alumni of the Saiid Business School at the Oxford University.

He has experience working in over 16 countries across Africa, building mobile banking and digital payment platforms. Over the years, he has built teams that have designed and deployed digital payments infrastructure across 34 markets in Africa. He is also the co-founder of Codesign Africa, a digital lending marketplace and the immediate former MD of Tala, the leading digital lending firm in Kenya. Munyi believes that payments transactions in Africa are too costly for the average person, inefficient and inaccessible to millions of Africans. He is driven by the passion to make payments, lending and savings accessible and affordable for every African and believes that the agriculture sector provides a great opportunity for the inclusion of many Africans into the formal financial services ecosystem. This drives his mission to solve the challenges that exist in the agriculture sector and that hinder the seamless exchange of value and information.