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Chinonso Ohakwe

Chinonso Ohakwe

Head of Operations- Waza Technologies Inc.

Lagos, Nigeria

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Nonso Ohakwe is the Business Operations Manager at Waza, a fintech infrastructure company powering cross-border B2B payments and liquidity for African businesses. At Waza, he leads critical work across partner onboarding, compliance, OTC readiness, and cross-functional execution—ensuring partners are onboarded with speed, structure, and scale.

Nonso’s professional journey spans fintech, legal-tech, policy, and social impact. He has worked with over a dozen justice-focused startups across Nigeria, helping them define their customer segments, validate solutions, and launch to market. As a facilitator at Hill’s Justice Entrepreneurship School, he has coached startups tackling issues from land transactions and domestic violence to electoral accountability and legal transparency.

Throughout his career, Nonso has been deeply invested in systems-thinking, strategy, and building operational frameworks that scale. He’s led initiatives on KYC/KYB compliance flows, managed multi-stakeholder partnerships, and advised founders on process automation and market positioning. His work often blends legal insight with operational execution and strategic storytelling.

Whether he’s onboarding fintech partners, coaching startup founders, or scaling internal systems, Nonso brings a structured, mission-aligned, and detail-driven approach to every room he walks into.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Finance & Banking
  • Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • “Beyond Code: Why Operations Decide If Products Thrive or Fail”
  • “The Invisible Infrastructure Behind Every API”
  • “From Sandbox to Scale: What Developers Forget When Building for Africa”
  • “Why Partnerships Are the New Programming Language”
  • “The Hidden Half of Tech: What Makes or Breaks a Product After Launch”
  • “When Regulators Meet Developers: Building for Compliance Without Killing Innovation”
  • “The Art of Scaling in African Tech: Lessons from Operations”
  • “Speaking Two Languages: How Non-Tech Teams and Developers Can Actually Work Together”
  • “What Developers Can Learn From Operations People (and Vice Versa)”

Chinonso Ohakwe

Head of Operations- Waza Technologies Inc.

Lagos, Nigeria

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