With over 25 years of working experience, Nivan Bijou has spent the last 10 years on building strategic businesses aligned to his experience across financial and technology institutions. Having spent the bulk of his years at MasterCard, Nivan is regarded as a payments and data expert with a deep understanding on end to end processes. Critical to the current and future success has been Nivan’s ability to piece together a team with deep level expertise.
With 1st hand experience, Nivan has worked across most of the markets in Middle East Africa, having spent 3 years in Dubai. He served on executive pricing and interchange committees at MasterCard and represented MasterCard at Payments associations, with regulators and at key speaking events. Some of his recent accolades include having one of his companies been awarded as a top 5 fintech company by BoA Merryl Lynch (in 2016), an App that his team created was a finalist in the MTN mobile app awards (2015), and been a director of a company that was awarded a Visa staff choice award at the annual Visa Africa fintech awards (2018).
Nivan has an MBA from Wits Business School.
