Elizabeth Rossiello
Elizabeth Rossiello is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of digital payments platform BitPesa. She grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Dakar, Senegal. She is an expert in East African financial product development and establishing practices in risk, governance and IT for local banks.Career
Rossiello has a Masters in International Finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to founding BitPesa, she was Deputy Director of Planet Rating's East and Southern African office, served as an Analyst at Credit Suisse in NY, London and Zurich, worked at Goldman Sachs and served as a Robert Bosch Fellow at the German Bundestag in Frankfurt. She is a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Blockchain and the Global Blockchain Business Council, as well as an active advocate for blockchain technology in emerging markets. In 2018 she was named to Fortune Magazine's "The Ledger 40 Under 40" list of young people who are transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.
