Yogupay has appointed Kevin Kigima Ng'ang'a as its incoming Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), as the fintech’s moves to scale its commercial strategy and deepen its role in Africa’s fast-evolving cross-border payments and trade settlement landscape.
- •Kevin Ng'ang'a joins Yogupay with more than two decades of experience spanning fintech, cross-border payments, foreign exchange, trade finance, and emerging-market financial infrastructure.
- •His career has been largely shaped around Africa-to-global payment corridors, an area that remains critical as African trade volumes expand but settlement and liquidity constraints persist.
- •As Chief Commercial Officer, he will lead the company’s commercial strategy, focusing on liquidity expansion, market growth, and alignment between product, sales, and customer outcomes, with a strong emphasis on developing credit and settlement solutions to improve cross-border cash flow management.
“I am a senior commercial and payments executive with over 20 years of experience across fintech, cross-border payments, FX, trade finance, and emerging-market financial infrastructure, with a strong focus on Africa-to-global corridors,” Kevin says.
Before joining Yogupay, he held senior leadership positions at both global and regional payments and financial services firms. His background includes serving as a country lead for a regulated cross-border payments fintech, as well as advising and building ventures in structured trade finance, treasury and financial market infrastructure across Africa and international corridors. This blend of operational leadership and advisory experience positions him to navigate both regulatory and commercial complexities in multiple markets.
Kevin Ng'ang'a mentions that Yogupay’s core value proposition is a key factor in his decision to join the company. “I was drawn to Yogupay because it isn’t just moving money; it is building the necessary infrastructure to settle trade instantly,” he noted. Drawing from personal experience as a business owner involved in imports from markets such as Jordan and China, he added that “speed and liquidity are just as critical as the exchange rate.”
According to him, Yogupay’s mission to “eradicate financial borders” stood out because it targets long-standing frictions in cross-border trade, including settlement delays and lack of transparency. “They are solving the actual friction points- such as transparency and settlement speed- that I have personally navigated as a business owner,” he says.
His appointment comes at a time when African trade is growing, but traditional banking rails continue to lag behind market needs. Kevin believes technological shifts are creating an inflection point for the industry. “We are at a pivotal moment where African trade is expanding, yet traditional banking rails remain slow and fragmented,” he says. “With the rise of stablecoins and digital settlement layers, we finally have the technology to make intra-Africa and global trade seamless.”
Kevin believes that Yogupay’s operational readiness and FINTRAC licensing made it the right platform to scale a solution the market urgently needs.
Drawing on his experience building and scaling cross-border payment corridors and navigating regulatory-driven growth, Kevin brings hands-on expertise in turning complex payment challenges into scalable solutions. He also emphasized on the importance of customer empathy, shaped by his background in logistics and commodities, noting that delayed settlements can disrupt shipments and real business operations.
A key challenge he aims to address is liquidity friction, particularly for African importers who need instant access to the right currency to secure goods. He highlighted solutions such as improved overnight liquidity facilities to help businesses avoid missed trade opportunities.
Kevin describes YoguPay as “building a seamless, trusted payments infrastructure that enables African businesses to move money globally with speed, transparency, and confidence,” adding that by reducing costs and speeding up payments to major markets like China and Europe, the company can give African businesses a meaningful competitive edge while accelerating YoguPay’s commercial expansion.
