Opeyemi Disu

VP, Head of Products, Payaza · Lagos, Nigeria

Ventures

  • Payaza (78 Financials)

    Active

    VP, Head of Products · Nov 2025 — Present

    Owning product strategy and the full product lifecycle for a pan-African payments platform, partnered closely with engineering leadership and the executive team.

  • Blockstal / Grats

    Acquired

    Co-Founder & CTO · Aug 2025 — Present

    Co-founded and built Grats, a unified payment infrastructure platform serving Africa and the UK. Acquired by Payaza.

  • Salve Mundi Technologies

    Active

    Founder & Chief Vision Officer · Apr 2025 — Present

    A product studio shipping its own portfolio across fintech, AI, health tech, and emerging tech, and building alongside for clients. Out of Lagos.

    • Attenlyx · Live Measure event ROI in real time with AI. Composite attention score, anonymous facial analysis, speaker attribution.
    • Ault · Live Gold-backed concierge wealth: purchase, spend, lease, or borrow against allocated gold held in LBMA-certified vaults.

  • Mookie

    Prior

    Founder · Jun 2022 — Mar 2025

    Founded the first sports-bookmaker aggregator in market: one app to find the best odds, convert booking codes, and place bets across multiple sportsbooks.

  • Appzone (Recova)

    Prior

    Head of Solution Delivery · Oct 2019 — Jul 2022

    Led implementation and delivery of Recova, a 360° lending automation platform deployed across commercial banks and microfinance institutions in Nigeria.

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Certificate · Building AI Products & Services 2024
  • Imperial College Business School MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management 2016-2017
  • Babcock University BSc Computer Science 2012-2016

Principles

  • Rails before riders. Infrastructure compounds; apps churn.
  • Three-year horizons. Short cycles distract from compound.
  • Portfolios, not single bets. Conviction comes from coverage.
  • Both sides of the desk. Engineer the systems; ship the products.
  • Quiet operators over loud founders. The work speaks.

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