Speakers

Eva NGIGI

Managing Director, Finserve Africa, Equity Bank Group

Eva is a seasoned financial services executive with over 20 years of experience, including 16 in senior leadership across banking, fintech, and public sector engagements. She leads Equity Group’s payments strategy, driving digital transformation and financial inclusion across Equity’s presence markets.

Her career spans leadership roles at Visa Inc., SC Ventures, Standard Chartered, and Stanbic, where she consistently delivered commercial growth, strategic partnerships, and innovative digital solutions.

Eva is recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in the C‑Suite (Kenya) and is an active contributor to national and regional financial‑sector transformation agendas. She is widely regarded for her ability to shape regulatory dialogue, drive ecosystem‑wide digitization, and steward large‑scale technology, payments, and risk‑management programs.

She holds executive credentials from Oxford Saïd Business School, a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Business, an MBA in Strategic Management, and a Bachelor of Business Management. She is also a practitioner of Human‑Centred Design, known for combining strategic clarity, commercial acumen, and disciplined execution to deliver enterprise‑level transformation.