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Jay Alabraba

Co-founder & Director Business Development•Paga
Nigeria
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Expertise

Business Planning
Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Management
Corporate Development
Investment Banking
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Mobile Payments
Financial Services
Angel Investing
Program Management
Pharmaceutical Marketing
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Primary Sector
FinTech
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Biography

Jay Alabraba is co-founder and Director of Business Development at Paga, Nigeria's largest mobile payments service. He has over two decades of work experience spanning high-tech, pharmaceutical, and financial services sectors. Before founding Paga in 2010, Jay was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York and later led an M&A unit at BGL Plc in Lagos. Earlier in his career, he was a program manager at Microsoft (1999-2004) and accepted a fellowship at Eli Lilly managing pharmaceutical marketing projects. He holds an MBA from Stanford GSB (2007) and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (cum laude) from Ohio State University. Jay is a sector-agnostic angel investor, partner at Kernel Fund, and serves as Chairman of ALMPO. He is passionate about improving education and developing real estate for lower-income families.

Education

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MBA

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

2007

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B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (cum laude)

The Ohio State University

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Awards

  • 🏆Stanford Graduate School of Business Charles P. Bonini Partnership for Diversity Fellowship
  • 🏆Named Endeavor Entrepreneur (2018)
  • 🏆Finance Leaders Fellowship, Aspen Institute (2021)
  • 🏆Patent awards for anti-piracy and software protection work at Microsoft