PayAttitude Appoints Babatunde Okeniyi as CEO

The board of directors of PayAttitude Global, a payment platform with focus on mobile and digital payments, has announced the appointment of Babatunde Okeniyi as its managing director/chief executive officer.

Francis Shobo, chairman, board of PayAttitude Global and deputy managing director, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, announced the appointment in a statement on Tuesday.

Shobo said Okeniyi brings to “over two decades of unbroken experience in Nigeria’s dynamic financial & Payments industry and will provide valuable insight to the Board and the Management of PayAttitude from his wealth of experience”

He said Okeniyi’s appointment is one of the measures geared towards positioning PayAttitude Global “as a leading Payment scheme within and outside Nigeria”.

Okeniyi had worked in Citibank Nigeria and UBA Plc where he was the general manager and group chief information officer (CIO)

Until his appointment, Okeniyi was was an executive director in the marketing and sales unit of UP (Unified Payments), an e-payment service provider and technology company.

Following his new appointment with PayAttitude Global, Isa Omagu was appointed by UP to succeed Okeniyi as director, marketing and sales.

Omagu, former general manager in Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) and later chief operating officer of GLO Mobile, Ghana, was appointed alongside Titilayo Olubiyi and Ochanya Dan-Ugo.

While Olubiyi is the director of UP’s financial institutions, Dan-Ugo was appointed as director/group chief risk officer.