Kingsley Ezeani

Kingsley Ezeani holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School (2022) and an MBA from the University of Oxford (2020). His work sits at the nexus of fintech and immigrant financial inclusion. As co-founder and CEO of CashEx, he scaled a cross‑border payments platform to 100,000 users, won the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (2022), and received the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund Award (2022). As an Adrian Cheng Fellow at Harvard’s Social Innovation + Change Initiative, he researched barriers to financial access among immigrant communities and developed policy tools to reduce remittance costs for African immigrants in the US. Earlier, he founded Techhive Africa, where he built and scaled the Information Nigeria media platform to 5 million users and secured a digital news partnership with the BBC. Kingsley has been recognized by The Future Awards Africa and the Obama Foundation as an emerging African leader.