Natalie Payida Jabangwe

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Natalie Payida Jabangwe (née Natalie Payida) is a Zimbabwean computer engineer and businesswoman, who serves as the Group Digital Executive Officer at Sanlam, based in Cape Town, South Africa. In this role, she oversees digital functions in over 34 African markets, India and Malaysia.

She was the chief executive officer of EcoCash, the mobile money service of Econet Wireless, a leading wireless telephony company in Zimbabwe. She ran the second-largest mobile financial service company on the African continent, serving in excess of six million individuals, as of 2018.

Early life and education Payida Jabangwe was born in the United Kingdom circa 1983. She studied at Middlesex University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. While at Middlesex, she studied as an exchange student at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, she earned an Executive Master of Business Administration, from the Imperial College London. She was also a 2017 Fellow of The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship Program. In November 2018, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed her to the United Nations' Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals, co-chaired by Maria Ramos and Achim Steiner.

In 2018, Payida Jabangwe was named among the "100 Africa Economic Leaders for Tomorrow" by the Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics, a Paris-based think tank.

While at Spelman College in Atlanta, she interned in the office then-Atlanta Mayor, Shirley Franklin. Payida Jabangwe is credited with developing Atlanta's first information technology security policies in 2004, when she was 21 years old.

Family Natalie Payida Jabangwe is mother of one daughter, Makatendeka Morris.