Andrew Watkins-Ball

Andrew Watkins-Ball is a South African entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in scaling businesses across technology and financial services. He founded JUMO in 2015, a fintech platform providing digital financial services to unbanked and underbanked entrepreneurs in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. His career began in event production working with notable figures like Quincy Jones. He co-founded Gateway Telecommunications in 1991, which was sold to Vodacom for $675-700 million in 2008. He spent seven years (2000-2007) at Salomon Brothers in leveraged finance roles in London and New York. In early 2026, he transitioned from CEO to Chairman of JUMO.