Mike Quinn

CEO
Zoona

Overview

Mike Quinn is Group CEO of Zoona, an African FinTech business that aims to free up African economies by reducing the need for cash. He has lived in Ghana, Zambia, and South Africa for the past 12 years, and has now settled in Cape Town. Mike grew up in Calgary, Canada, and completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Mike holds an MBA with Distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Skoll Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, alongside an MSc in Management Development from the London School of Economics.

Zoona

Zoona is an African FinTech business that helps communities thrive. Since launching in 2009, Zoona has grown to an active customer base of 2 million consumers with 3,000 agents in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique and has processed over $2 billion in transactions. In 2015, the Nike Foundation and Unreasonable Institute selected Zoona as one of the world’s top start-ups for helping girls out of poverty based on a microfranchise model that empowers girls and young women to become entrepreneurs.