Maria Rotilu at Branch.co discusses security wins in Nigeria

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Maria Rotilu is a former Management Consultant at Deloitte who transitioned into helping technology startups scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. She did this in leadership positions at Uber as the Country Manager and as General Manager, West Africa at Branch.co. Maria is currently the Managing Director at Oxford Seed Fund. Maria loves to help technology businesses reach global scale through her rich experience as a venture builder and also through her work at the Oxford Seed Fund - a team of select international team of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry specialists. The OSF invests up to £50,000 in the top Oxford-affiliated startups and provides them with the network and support they need to scale. Branch.co is a global android-powered mobile lending company in Nigeria, India, Kenya, and Tanzania that uses cutting-edge data science on data from smartphones to credit score customers and disburse micro-loans and offer financial services. Branch has given out more than 15 million loans to over 5 million customers worldwide. Under Maria’s leadership, Branch Nigeria grew from $50k to over $100 million in disbursements and reached over 2 million customers. She also led the fundraising of an oversubscribed $10 commercial paper, and leads the business across several major functions including customer success, people operations, finance, legal and compliance, marketing, product localization and new product initiatives. Maria graduated from Covenant University with a BSc. in Computer Science, and is also a Chartered Accountant with ACCA in the United Kingdom. Maria is also an MBA Student at Said Business School, University of Oxford and an Eni-Oxford Africa Scholar. Maria believes supporting impactful businesses to reach global scale is the key to individual and collective economic prosperity. You can find Maria Rotilu on Linkedin - https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fmariarotiluandevent=video_descriptionandv=X9oNYg-IeCkandredir_token=QUFFLUhqbmVWSkRtV2NYNkduWUp0NVFUcV9UeVBsVjBld3xBQ3Jtc0tuQW9ieUdfTEpWS05MWElxVTF5ZlB0VWRuSlBfV0libm9jekN3V1pqRkc5Q2JGTmlqdWdiejBMVUtKS1dNak1fczRFR0hDR2VZQ2c0dTdwWjQtUDBsV2pxUEd5alYzSklCaHI1TXNmczlhSGE0UFZUWQ%3D%3D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariarotilu)