Kuda

Leadership

• Babs Ogundeyi

  Founder & CEO

• Daniel Hegarty

  Co-CEO (London)

• Musty Mustapha

  Co-founder & CTO (UK)

• Ed Addario

  Chief Technology Officer (UK)

• Precious Akin Iluku

  Chief Financial Officer

Departments

65 people across 9 departments. Sales Navigator, November 2026. Mapped so far: executives, product and design. Teams fill in as each department is added. Showing leaders and senior talent only; team sizes count everyone.

• Product

  24 people · 8 teams

  Split by business line (Retail, Business Banking, Core Banking), with no single head of product. Kuda also has product staff in South Africa.

  Retail · 2

  Scott Hirst

  Head of Product, Retail (Manchester)

  • Ufuoma Clarke · Product Lead, Retail

  Business Banking · 1

  Okoronkwo Kanno

  Head of Product, Business Banking

  Core Banking & Internal Tools · 1

  Emmanuel Odeniya

  Head of Non Customer Facing Products

  Growth · 3

  • Ikenna Ugwuegbulam · Senior Product Manager, Growth
  • Olamide Fawole · Senior Product Manager, Growth

  Payments & Cards · 2

  Nicollete Damian

  Product Lead, Payments & Cards

  • Appolonia Nsofor* · Head of Cards

  Credit · 1

  No lead or senior roles

  Team not clear from title · 8

  • Ajibola Badmus · Senior Product Manager
  • Palesa Mjali · Senior Product Manager (Cape Town)

  Product & Process Operations · 6

  Glory Ajie

  Senior Product Operations Manager

  • Anietie Victor · Manager, Product & Process Operations
  • Karl Martin · Product Operations Manager, Credit (Cape Town)
  • Ifeoluwa Adenekan · Senior Product & Process Operations Analyst
  • Oluwatosin Ijitona · Senior Product & Process Operations Analyst

• Design & Creative

  15 people · 2 teams

  Product Design · 11

  Tunde Kabir Mason

  Head of Product Design

  • Onowomano I. · Lead Product Designer
  • Afolabi Emmanuel Damilola · Senior Product Designer
  • Princess Karen Cummings · Senior Product Designer, Growth
  • Feyisola Olawuyi · Senior Product Designer

  Creative · 4

  Niyi Okeowo

  Head of Creative

  • David Olubusuyi · Motion Design Lead
  • Korede Onayinka · Graphic Design Manager
  • John Mu'azu · Senior Motion Designer

• Engineering & Technology

  5 people · 4 teams

  Ed Addario

  Chief Technology Officer (UK)

  Two CTO titles: co-founder Musty Mustapha and Ed Addario, who joined in 2025.

  Technology Operations · 1

  Mayowa Adeosun

  Head of Technology Operations

  Information Security · 1

  Sopriye Iketubosin

  Head of Information Security

  BI & Analytics · 1

  Gabriella Camara

  Head of BI & Analytics (Berlin)

  Credit Engineering · 1

  Ajibade Joshua

  Technical Lead, Credit Product

• Marketing & Growth

  5 people · 3 teams

  Product & Lifecycle Marketing · 2

  Ayanda M.

  Product & Lifecycle Marketing Lead (Johannesburg)

  • Wunmi Somolu · Product Marketing Manager

  Brand · 2

  Emmanuel Femi-Adejobi

  Senior Brand Manager

  Marketing & Creative Operations · 1

  Natalie Shelton

  Marketing & Creative Operations Lead (Cape Town)

• Risk, Compliance & Audit

  5 people · 5 teams

  Five separate heads; no single chief risk officer came up.

  Compliance · 1

  Rasaq Kadri

  Head of Compliance

  Enterprise Risk · 1

  Israel Agboola

  Head of Enterprise Risk Management & Control

  Fraud · 1

  Junaid Farouk

  Head of Fraud

  Internal Audit · 1

  No lead or senior roles

  IT Governance · 1

  Odirichi Nwafor

  Head of IT Governance

• Customer Experience

  4 people · 3 teams

  Elizabeth Ekanem

  Head of Customer Experience

  CX Operations · 1

  Norah Ikoh

  Head of CX Operations

  Contact Centre · 1

  Izojie I.

  Head of Contact Centre (Kuda Microfinance Bank)

  Service Measurement & Analytics · 1

  Francis Madubuogu

  Head of Service Measurement & Analytics

• Credit & Lending

  3 people · 2 teams

  Natalia Lyarskaya

  Managing Director, Credit (UK)

  Credit Strategy · 1

  Mana Nadafian

  Head of Credit Strategy (UK)

  Collections · 1

  Funmilola Abereola

  Head of Collections

• Finance

  3 people · 1 team

  Precious Akin Iluku

  Chief Financial Officer

  Financial Control · 2

  Uluç Yurtal, CFA

  Group Financial Controller (Toronto)

• People

  1 person · 1 team

  HR · 1

  Rachael Olubusola Odusami

  Head of HR, Nigeria