Founder & CEO
Matt Folson (Ekow)
25+ years driving innovation at HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, Santander, Mitsubishi. Deep UK regulatory expertise (BoE + FCA). Passionate about sustainable tech progress in Africa.
Leadership Team
Cush Payments is built by experienced operators across banking, fintech, distributed systems, and regulation — with one goal: fix African payments properly.
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
Platform & Ledger Architecture
Veteran architect obsessed with high-throughput ledgers, Rust-based infra, uptime, and correctness. Ships real systems that scale.
COO
Chief Operating Officer
Operations & Scale
Scaled regulated financial products across jurisdictions. Owns partnerships, execution, and strategy-to-outcome delivery.
MLRO
MLRO
Paul Tamber
A highly experienced Board and executive-level Head of Compliance/AML/financial crime, registered MLRO and former international regulator. Paul has a record of success in global organisations, providing deep knowledge, wide-ranging skills and significant expertise in financial services. Paul’s experience covers banking, payments, Investment firms and crypto.
PRODUCT
Head of Product
User Experience & APIs
Mobile-first design, embedded finance APIs, dev tooling. Builds clear, fast products people love using.
PARTNERS
Head of Partnerships
Banks, Telcos & Ecosystem
Drives strategic alliances with banks, mobile money, regulators, and diaspora corridors across Africa.