Infrastructure for economic participation
My work is focused on widening economic participation by building and supporting the systems that help more people and businesses create value, earn, own, grow, and participate productively in the global economy.
Across my work, I keep returning to one question. What must exist for more people and businesses to contribute meaningfully to the economy and benefit from its growth? The answer is not simply access to one product. It is a dependable path from identity and trust to knowledge, money, capital, production, markets, and the global economy.
Opportunity becomes real only when that path works. A bank account matters when money can move. Verification matters when it opens the door to customers and commerce. Knowledge matters when a founder can turn it into a sound company. Capital matters when a business has the power, tools, and market to put it to productive use.
My role is deliberate. I build where my operating experience is strongest, support a small number of founders advancing the same vision, and help capital reach opportunities that can expand economic participation at meaningful scale.
Participation depends on connected systems
Economic participation is not one product or programme. It grows when several practical systems work together. Each one solves a different part of the same problem.
Be recognised and informed
People need a dependable way to prove who they are, transact safely, understand opportunity, and make informed decisions. Trust and practical knowledge make participation possible.
Produce, earn, and grow
Businesses need useful technology, capable founders, productive assets, reliable energy, and sound capital. Together, these help people earn more and companies build at a meaningful scale.
Transact and reach markets
People and businesses need to move money, receive capital, trade across borders, reach customers, and take part in opportunities beyond their immediate location.
How this focus appears in my work
At Prembly, I co-founded and continue to build the trust infrastructure that helps businesses verify customers, meet compliance requirements, prevent fraud, and transact with confidence. Prembly is my primary operating work and one of the clearest expressions of this thesis. People and businesses cannot participate fully when systems cannot trust them.
At Moniepoint, I helped build the distribution network behind billions of dollars in transactions across Africa. That experience showed me that financial technology becomes useful when it reaches real people, reflects how they work, and gives them a practical way to take part in the formal economy.
Through ZeroToAct and Chronicles of Innovation, I make practical knowledge easier to find and use. They are not separate operating ambitions. They are ways to share useful ideas, lessons, and examples with people who are building and making consequential decisions.
I also support a selected number of founders whose companies can remove meaningful barriers to participation. The industry may differ, but the reason for engaging does not. The company must solve a real problem and give more people or businesses a practical way to move forward.
The next expression
My experience began with digital and financial systems, but the same conviction leads naturally to physical infrastructure. A trusted business that can move money still cannot produce without reliable power, productive assets, and the ability to reach its market.
I am interested in work whose value can be seen in what changes for the user. A rider retains more income. A manufacturer adds a shift. A small business serves more customers. A capable founder gets the support and capital needed to build something useful. These are different outcomes of the same focus.
An active expression in formation.
Powering Nigeria Infrastructure Fund 1
The fund is one expression of this wider thesis. It is being formed to finance distributed energy assets close to productive users who already bear the cost of unreliable power. The work begins with proven demand and asks whether better infrastructure can lower operating costs, strengthen earnings, and widen economic participation while producing disciplined returns.
The first test begins with productive electric mobility. Deployed assets are being tracked for utilisation, repayments, battery behaviour, and maintenance as we test whether mobility can provide the starting demand for distributed energy stations and widen access to income-generating assets.
Read the fund thesis→Who I want to build with
I want to work with founders, operators, investors, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals who want to widen economic participation in practical ways. That may mean creating a company, financing infrastructure, opening a distribution channel, strengthening a technology platform, teaching what works, or bringing useful experience into a difficult market.
It can also mean supporting another founder whose work advances the same vision. I do not need to build every vehicle myself. The test is whether the work solves a real problem, can sustain itself, and leaves more people or businesses able to participate productively.