ABOUT
Kennedy Ekezie is the Founder and CEO of Kippa, a payments and accounting platform serving 500,000+ small businesses in Nigeria.
Before Kippa, Kennedy worked at Tiktok in Beijing, heading user acquisition for its expansion to Africa. He won a Yenching Scholarship (Chinese Rhodes Scholarship) and was the highest-ranked competitive debater in Nigeria for two years. As a teenager, he ran a social enterprise focused on expanding access to education for women in Nigeria. His work won the Queen’s Young Leader Award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and was awarded the Young African Leaders Fellowship from President Barack Obama.
Kennedy is a 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 Lister.