Viola Llewellyn is the co-founder and President of Ovamba Solutions, Inc.. Ovamba is an award winning African “TradeTech” innovator that creates culturally attuned technologies for Financial Institutions. Ovamba’s solutions combine innovative Sharia compliant structures with eCommerce, logistics services and investment to drive financial inclusion and promote small and medium business growth.

As a founding team member of a life insurance investment fund ($500M AUM) in Washington, DC, she led investor communications, business development and asset management divisions. In her past career, she has held positions with Unisys Corporation, IBM, Digital Equipment Corp., KPMG Consulting, BearingPoint and Rothschild’s.

Ms. Llewellyn is listed in the “Digital Undivided Report” as one of the original cohort* of Black women in the USA to have raised more than $1 million for a technology company as featured in the April issue of Vanity Fair Magazine. Her recognitions include Innovate Finance’s “Women in FinTech Power List”, and “Latice80’s Top 100 Women in Fintech 2019”. Ms. Llewellyn is further distinguished by being the first Female African Tech Founder to speak at both “Slush”, Helsinki and “Slush, Tokyo” – yearly events that are billed as the biggest gathering of innovators, funders, startups and entrepreneurs in Europe and Asia respectively. In late 2018, her TED Talk was included as part of the “Reboot” Series with Boston Consulting Group. Ms. Llewellyn is a published author of The Brooking’s Institute’s “Foresight Africa 2019” article, ‘Winning in Africa’s FinTech: The Ovamba Way’, and the Wilson Centers’ “Africa: Year In Review 2019”

Ms. Llewellyn is a Global Technology Pioneer with the World Economic Forum. She was also a WEF Technology Ambassador and spoke at the prestigious “Davos Summit” conference. She is the Chairperson of The Africa Fintech Summit, and has served on the board of The Africa Professional Services Group, the European Women’s Payment Network, and the African Women in Fintech & Payments Network. Most recently she and the Ovamba team were selected to represent Cameroon to the Global Blockchain Business Council; and in 2021 she joined the board of, Generosity Global. Ms. Llewellyn previously served on the board of Africa’s leading tech hub and incubator ActivSpaces. Viola Llewellyn’s family is originally from Cameroon. She was born, raised and educated in the U.K. and lives between the African Continent and the USA.