TechBerg Magazine has named Rasaq Ahmed, the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of WealthTech firm CowryWise as its Personality of the Week.
For someone who is immersed in numbers both in the classroom and in ‘real world’, being a technology guru may not seem like a significant achievement. However, one distinguishing fact about Rasaq Ahmed is that his versatility do not only cover knowing how to compute figures and how to navigate the computer system, but have gone beyond to create a system that proffers financial solution with the use of technology.
Educational Background and Career
Rasaq Ahmed is the Chief Executive Officer of Cowrywise, a financial technology startup which he cofounded in 2017. He was born and bred in the Northern part of Nigeria, kano precisely by his south-western originated parent.
He attended secondary school in a time where schooling and being involved in some form of manual labour or craft alongside was a norm. His university education was dependent on hustle and bustle here and there and being engulfed in repairing generators was part of it.
Life took great positive turn as he enrolled and attained a first-class degree in Obafemi Awolowo University in a Major in Economics.
Upon graduation in 2007, he took up a role the following year as an investment analyst at Meristem, later he switched to a research analytics role in Vetiva Capital Management Limited and stayed briefly. After there, he worked as a business economist before he got promoted to Gas commercial in shell petroleum development company. Rasaq Ahmed served as Start Partners’ Executive Director.
He went ahead to co-found the Fintech startup that facilitates savings and Investment in July 2017.
About Cowrywise
Reports have it that his experience in a near-death situation propelled Rasaq Ahmed to take that bold step of building cowrywise that has helped (and still helping) numerous people and corporate bodies take wise financial decisions.
Cowrywise is a big name in the African Fintech industry whose mission is to empower the next generation with powerful wealth-building tools to enable them to improve their financial health.
Cowrywise provides Nigerians the access to automated, high-yield savings and investment products with minimum deposit amounts of only 100 Naira. There are also financial planning tools and a digital wallet that facilitate and encourage use among customers.
It is therefore indubitable that Rasaq Ahmed has made giant strides and is making significant contributions in the African Fintech industry.
