Kennedy Ekezie is a technology entrepreneur working in service of a world where people live as good ancestors.
He founded Kippa, the digital finance platform used by over one million small businesses across Africa for bookkeeping, payments, and access to credit. Kippa became one of Africa's fastest-growing fintechs and a model for grassroots economic transformation.
He helped lead TikTok's international expansion into Africa, and was Nigeria’s top-ranked competitive debater for two years. He has received the Future Awards Africa Prize for Technology, the One Young World Entrepreneur of the Year award, the Queen's Young Leaders Award from Queen Elizabeth II, the Obama Foundation's Mandela Washington Fellowship, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Finance.
He is a Yenching Scholar of Peking University and an Interact Fellow.