The Board of Directors of PayAttitude Global, a foremost Payment Scheme with innovative technologies for payments and financial transactions with focus on mobile and digital payments, has announced the appointment of Babatunde Okeniyi as its Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer.
Announcing the appointment, Francis Shobo, Chairman of the Board of PayAttitude Global & The Deputy Managing Director First Bank of Nigeria Plc stated that Babatunde Okeniyi brings to the Board of PayAttitude, 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 further noted that the appointment of Babatunde is one of the measures geared towards positioning PayAttitude Global as a leading Payment scheme within and outside Nigeria.
Until his appointment, Babatunde was an Executive Director in UP(Unified Payments) where he had responsibility for Marketing and Sales. He worked previously in different institutions including Citibank Nigeria and UBA Plc where he was General Manager and Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the group with branches in 17 African Countries.
The new MD/CEO has attended key leadership courses in Harvard, USA and belongs to several professional bodies including International Academy of Cards and Payments, fellow, Institute of Credit Administration, fellow, Institute of Certified Management Consultants, fellow, and Institute of Directors, member. He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School, where he completed his Advance Management Programme (AMP), and also an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University (B.Sc.), University of Lagos (MBA), and certified engineer by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (MNSE) and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
PayAttitude is a Payment Scheme with innovative technologies for payments and financial transactions with focus on mobile and digital payments. PayAttitude is owned by a consortium of leading Nigerian banks.
PayAttitude owns the patent for the innovative Technology and Process that enables phone number to be used for different transactions available across all channels ATM, POS and WEB. These transactions are approved or authorized from ONLY the personal devices of the holder/customer of the PayAttitude bank/partner.
