He began his career as a credit-focused Financial Analyst before moving to the United Nations supporting national governments in Africa on their economic policies.

In 2019, Yele founded a Buy-Now, Pay-Later startup for East Africa, Julla focused on helping e-commerce businesses start, manage and grow their business with ease.

Julla ran its operations till December 2020 and in January 2021, Yele took his learnings from Julla and joined Carbon as a Product Lead scaling their Buy-Now, Pay-Later product. Now, Yele is focused on building and scaling Duplo with the vision to be the premier payment rail powering global trade.

He holds a BA in Economics and Finance from the University of Reading, United Kingdom.

Prior to co-founding Duplo, he had two stints at Jumia; Product Manager for Jumia Lending and Head of Consumer Financial Services (Nigeria).
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Tunde was the Country Manager at Seedstars where he helped launch fintech businesses like Quickcheck and Lendigo.

He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Information Systems from Northumbria University and an MBA from HEC Paris.

Before joining Duplo, he worked as the VP Engineering at Arca Payments, a payment services platform provider. He also worked as a software consultant for Diamond Bank.
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Emeka has over a decade of experience in software development, building diverse systems to solve challenges in a wide range of sectors including banking, manufacturing and logistics operations as well as human resources, procurement, performance management and electronic payments.

He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Lagos and an M.Sc. in Information Systems Management from Northumbria University.