Head of technology & strategy for ecommerce startup in Africa
Ocey Phillips – was leading a hybrid remote technical & strategy team from Indonesia, India & Africa bringing the largest Ecommerce startup platform in Nigeria & securing Start-up Capital from VC’S. Delivering not only e-commerce but an online marketplace bringing buyers & sellers together in one place.
There’s no doubt about it: retail has changed and continues to grow at a rate never seen before in the last five years. To keep up, eCommerce has become more sophisticated, and traditional retail has followed suit.
This constant pressure, combined with exciting technological advances, has prompted retailers ranging from the largest to the smallest to explore marketplaces and international trade in order to increase sales and, in some cases, simply consolidate market share.
The use of online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay by retailers can represent a significant opportunity to reach new customers, increase sales, and enter new markets.
Selling through marketplaces, on the other hand, is easier said than done. You can’t just add your products and sit back and watch the sales roll in; you need to find the right platform, understand the competitive landscape, optimize your listings, manage your sponsored ads, and look for growth opportunities.
Retailers can use our online marketplace consultancy service to get unbiased, expert advice on how to do this successfully and grow their business through marketplaces.
Scaling of a technology & digital agency
Ocey took Inifye Technologies a digital agency from an Idea and grew it to become a global company. A fully digital company since 2018 with offshore teams as far as India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, Ocey managed to work in every continent in the world and set up major hubs for strategic purposes. Scaling staff from just 4, to a compliment of 36 staff all over the world.
Who is Inifye? A digital agency
We blend innovative practices, new-gen technologies, user experiences, engaging interactions, and relatable human touch to the digital sphere that permits the brands to pace with fast-evolving consumer behaviors and preferences. With Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption also comes practically in all industries/sectors. Presently, the digital economy offers an unparalleled opportunity to envisage and build innovative new solutions, services, and experiences tailored to stay ahead of developing customer demands.
The proliferation of new technologies like mobile, cloud computing, IoT, Voice Assistance, AR, VR, and AI is transforming customer behavior and disrupting market places. As a result, our digital approach for marketing practices is also evolving.
To engage with today’s connected consumers, we cannot use yesterday’s approaches. Inifye transforms startups and enterprises to take advantage of the same technologies that are transforming consumers’ behaviors. We design personalized and customized solutions with an end-to-end perspective. Starting all the way with customer understanding and insight- to coming up with unified brand experiences and engagement strategies– to execution and optimization.
We don’t just talk about digital communications but
We talk about digital processes.
We talk about digital organization.
We talk about technology platforms.
All that support digital marketing decision-making
Our Focus Areas as a digital agency
Inifye Tech focuses on rethinking and developing the digital processes that not only drive performance but also close the process gaps between customers, suppliers, and partners with automation, insight, and certain platforms. It also helps in enhancing the brands’ online visibility through an amalgam of innovative campaigns, performance-driven approaches, conversation strategies, and modernization. Our learning and developing agenda drive business improvement from our innovation ecosystem.
Digital Strategy
Inifye Tech assists enterprises to stay agile while identifying, investing, and implementing new digital strategies to deliver the brand promise with clear ownership and accountability.
Digital Experience
Improve customer-brand interactions using digital gestures and meaningful insights by shaping brand perception and loyalty and understanding how they interact with the brand online.
Technology
Inifye focus is on simplifying, modernizing, and securing the applications and IT infrastructure because these are the main backbone of the company.
Digital Interaction
Inifye engages customers by envisioning and building better services and experiences, go-to-market approaches, and disruptive business models to generate new growth.
Next-Gen Digital
Today is about transformation and disruption, which means the end of ancient technologies and the start of new opportunities. But what would be next? Next-Gen will be about people dealing with and living in a digital world.
Our Motivation
We aim to deliver the best-in-class experiences, driven by strong creative approaches, rooted in the technology, data, and organizational strategy required for operational excellence, seamless technology integration, marketing effectiveness, and business profitability.
What differentiates us is that we offer a full spectrum of capabilities to reach milestones essential to accomplish your digital goals. Our work area is your entire business and organizational landscape comprising of internal and external components.
Our vision is to build an organization that prodigiously expands the threshold of business, outperforming industry benchmarks by maintaining a firm base in this technology-driven world along with new innovation to create value, growing consistently, boosting people to do the extraordinary, and vehemently collaborating with our customers.
Future of Digital Reality Depends on Cloud
In the future, Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality will transform the way we live, play, and work. A key factor in the growth and impact of Digital Reality will come from cloud computing as it requires enormous computing power to deliver rigorous frame-rate requirements, dynamic lighting and shadows, and 360 environments with volumetric data and SLAM environment mapping that has to happen in under 20 milliseconds.
Just as the mobile devices today are able to make use of server-side computing power to run computationally intensive apps like voice technologies, Digital Reality devices will become as slim and as powerful as these mobile devices; a lightweight, functional, attractive display that relies on the cloud to access the world with the wave of a finger or the blink of an eye.
Digital Reality can enhance Government Services
Nowadays, Governments are pressurized to provide more services but with fewer resources, it is unable to meet the expectations of the public. In such a situation, Augmented and Virtual technologies can help Governments to transform their way of using data, help raise employee performance, and more effectively offer enhanced services.
The Government can apply digital reality in
the following situations:
Improve Public Health and Safety
One can see and interact in real-time with the available data on a manufacturing facility, a food processor, or a building to assess compliance. A health inspector visiting a meat packing facility can look at data from earlier inspections in his/her AR glasses. After inspecting, if code violations are highlighted then, she/he is alerted to common problems in similar facilities.
Support Investigations and Case Management
It lets investigators and law enforcement to overlay known data onto live scenes, get expert advice, and collect information. An investigator can pull up a network analysis during a conversation with a proof, or a guard can be alerted to signs of danger in an overloaded vehicle approaching a transit hub.
Improve Education
This technology allows students or workers to access education and training from anywhere anytime. For instance, Government authorities can create 360-degree videos to train farmers or advanced agricultural techniques, help them visualize future crop patterns, and prepare for challenges by simulating unpredictable weather conditions comprising floods or dry weather spells.
Fintech Consultant at Liberpay
Fintech consultant for Digital wallets, Electronic Fund Transfer, Digital currencies, Electronic KYC, Payments, Strategy, Development.
LiberPay is a payment platform that addresses the needs of the next generation of consumers in emerging markets in Africa. LiberPay is a payment platform that addresses the needs of the next generation of consumers in emerging markets in Africa. It allows consumers to have a simple and easy way to send and receive payments, top-up airtime, split payments and so much more!
LiberPay also offers companies the opportunity to be plugged into 150 million mobile wallets through a single API to over 40 countries across Africa.
LiberPay is a product of InterVAS, a technology company and leading value-added services provider. Launched in 2006, InterVAS has connections to over 200 mobile operators globally and we help organizations across multiple sectors and geographies engage and interact with their customers and employees.
VISION
To be the leading Pan African payment platform by the end of 2020
MISSION
To empower our clients with mobile payment services by providing them with a reliable platform that offers services that meet their requirements and enabling them to achieve their business objectives
Newer entrants in the financial technology space (fintech) are driving rapid change throughout the financial services sector and beyond. How can the fintech industry realize its growth ambitions which are so often based on creating positive societal impact? Discover how our fintech solutions, insights, and multidimensional approach to advising and collaborating can help fintech adapt to the ever-evolving business environment.
Financial technology (Fintech) is used to describe new tech that seeks to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. At its core, fintech is utilized to help companies, business owners and consumers better manage their financial operations, processes, and lives by utilizing specialized software and algorithms that are used on computers and, increasingly, smartphones. Fintech, the word, is a combination of “financial technology”.
When fintech emerged in the 21st Century, the term was initially applied to the technology employed at the back-end systems of established financial institutions. Since then, however, there has been a shift to more consumer-oriented services and therefore a more consumer-oriented definition. Fintech now includes different sectors and industries such as education, retail banking, fundraising and nonprofit, and investment management to name a few.
Understanding Fintech
Broadly, the term “financial technology” can apply to any innovation in how people transact business, from the invention of digital money to double-entry bookkeeping. Since the internet revolution and the mobile internet/smartphone revolution, however, financial technology has grown explosively, and fintech, which originally referred to as computer technology applied to the back office of banks or trading firms, now describes a broad variety of technological interventions into personal and commercial finance.
Fintech now describes a variety of financial activities, such as money transfers, depositing a check with your smartphone, bypassing a bank branch to apply for credit, raising money for a business startup, or managing your investments, generally without the assistance of a person.
Fintech’s Expanding Horizons
Up until now, financial services institutions offered a variety of services under a single umbrella. The scope of these services encompassed a broad range from traditional banking activities to mortgage and trading services. In its most basic form, Fintech unbundles these services into individual offerings. The combination of streamlined offerings with technology enables fintech companies to be more efficient and cut down on costs associated with each transaction.
If one word can describe how many fintech innovations have affected traditional trading, banking, financial advice, and products, it’s ‘disruption,’ like financial products and services that were once the realm of branches, salesmen and desktops move toward mobile devices or simply democratize away from large, entrenched institutions.
Intervas & Intervas Caribbean
Digital Strategy, Technology, & Go-to-market Consultant for Intervas Africa, UK & Asia & Lead Consultant & Intervas Caribbean
We live, breathe and speak the unique and complex language of digital connectivity in Africa and Europe
InterVAS is passionate about transforming Africa & the Caribbean. Our goal is simple: to empower people through connectivity, promoting digital transformation across all facets of life.
We have been delivering innovative digital solutions that solve real-life challenges across multiple sectors and geographies in Africa since 2006. Our value-add products and services serve every aspect of the industry. Our approach is extremely collaborative, and we love helping our clients to launch different solutions across Africa.
Africa is a huge continent with dynamic and complex demography. We are the preferred partner for Africa because we understand the African market well and we have connections to over 200 mobile network operators. With our expert knowledge of the diverse and varied market, coupled with 13 years experience of in launching services that span across multiple countries, we act as the client’s single point of contact.
Our focus is on:
Unlocking the value of digital value-added services for the African consumer
Helping our clients access the African mobile customer base with ease through our state of the art gateway
Developing accessible and reliable omnichannel solutions
Leveraging our strong relationships with regulators and mobile network operators to get things done
Faster time to market and increased revenue for our clients
World-class project delivery and service management
Many businesses around the world are being challenged to explore Africa as the continent takes on the position of being the “new business frontier.” Exploring business opportunities in Africa through value-added services offered by mobile network operators is a very daunting task, especially when a business is not familiar with the intricacies of executing these services and understanding the African market.
InterVAS Limited offers unique value-added services that support a business’s mission to grow revenue and increase market share across Africa. Our product and services offering for enterprises include:
OUR FOUNDATION
VISION
To empower people through connectivity.
MISSION
To promote digital transformation in Africa, helping our clients to deliver innovative turnkey solutions to enhance the experience for the consumer and respond to changing market dynamics
CORE VALUES
Excellence | Integrity | Professionalism | Innovation | Collaboration
FOREFRONT OF DIGITAL INNOVATION IN EMERGING MARKETS
InterVAS is at the forefront of digital innovation in emerging markets, helping businesses to grow their customer bases in a profitable way and build long-term value.
Whether you sell products or services directly to the consumer or to another business, our Consultancy arm can help you to identify the most appropriate technology solution to suit your needs and deliver market-ready solutions from the ground up, taking scalability, robustness and customizability into account.
By taking a disciplined and detailed approach we will implement effective growth opportunities for your business. Our goal is to enable you to become more competitive in your industry and respond to changing market dynamics.
Our cross-functional team of analysts, architects, and UX experts will guide you through technical and functional feasibility to validate the solution and prepare the foundation for future design and development work.
Our Consulting team has expertise in:
Mobile Payment Solutions
Database Management Services
Omni-channel Mobile Solutions
Cloud Solutions
Program and project delivery
Collaboration is our way of working and our talented team will always go the extra mile to ensure we exceed your expectations. We are approachable, flexible, and easy to do business with and we work with high energy, intellect, and pace. Our aspiration is very simple: to be the best at what we do and help our clients to thrive.
Strategic Consultant at Worldmobile
Strategic consultant for worldmobile in the space of telecommunications, blockchain, digital, strategy, & tokens.
World Mobile was founded with a far-reaching goal: to connect everyone, everywhere while advocating for economic freedom and dignity.
Half the world is unconnected.
When you discover a giant problem it’s nearly impossible to ignore it: there are nearly 4 billion people unconnected globally—that’s half the world. It turns out there’s a reason. The mobile network industry won’t invest in the last mile to reach remote places because it’s not profitable enough, leaving half the world disconnected from digital society and the inclusion opportunities it provides.
We started World Mobile to go the extra mile.
Unlike traditional mobile networks, we’re based on blockchain and the sharing economy. Local business owners in unconnected regions can operate affordable nodes on our network and bring their community online while sharing the rewards —World Mobile Tokens.
We’re building a mesh network using hybrid spectrum, renewable energy, and blockchain technology. Earth Nodes are the backbone of our network and process all transactions on our blockchain.
As an Earth Node operator, you’ll secure our network and earn WMT as per the tokenomics model. Since our network is based on the sharing economy, as the network grows so do your rewards.
