This appointment comes on the heels of Wave’s recent $137 million debt funding round aimed at scaling its operations in both new and existing markets. 

Having recently entered the Cameroonian market, Wave is positioning itself to compete for market share with already established telecoms like MTN and Orange in the country. 

The company currently operates in eight African countries, including Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, and Cameroon.

Ndjodo is a digital financial services specialist with over two decades of experience in both local and international management roles. His career spans the telecoms, oil, and consulting sectors, and he previously served as MTN Cameroon’s Senior Mobile Money Manager.

Wave officially entered Cameroon through a strategic partnership with Commercial Bank Cameroon (CBC).

Authorised by the regional banking regulator, Cobac, the partnership allows CBC clients to perform cash deposits, withdrawals, pay bills, receive international transfers, buy airtime, and move money between mobile wallets and bank accounts.

In his new role, Ndjodo is tasked with sustainably establishing Wave’s presence in Cameroon and positioning the fintech to tap into the country’s fast growing and competitive financial services market.

The new solution unifies and correlates mobile operator and subscriber data into a single 360-degree view and enables real-time decisioning with LigaData’s Data Fabric and Flare products.

MTN Cameroon becomes the thirteenth MTN Operating Company to implement the innovative technology solution with the support of strategic data partner LigaData.

The business looks to build on the success of its fellow OpCos, offering more advanced mobile money products, optimizing network resources and enhancing customer experience.

LigaData’s strategic data partnership with MTN Group was established in 2018. The partnership has already seen great advancement in leveraging new technologies to support real-time decision-making, improve data quality, and provide AI capabilities at scale.

“Accelerating MTN Cameroon’s Digital Transformation agenda is a top priority and leveraging Data is a critical part of that mission,” said Reuben Opata, Chief Technology & Information Systems Officer at MTN Cameroon. “Implementing our new data platform in partnership with LigaData will not only create business efficiencies but provide superior day-to-day experiences for our loyal customers.”

Darya Nasr, Chief Revenue Officer at LigaData, stated: “MTN Cameroon has many exciting plans to introduce innovative digital services to its customers. We’re thrilled our products and services are assisting MTN Cameroon to utilize data and analytics even further to support their data-driven digital transformation ambitions.”