Chris Maurice, Co-Founder & CEO, Yellow Card

Chris Maurice, Yellow Card’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, is a 27-year-old American tech entrepreneur who has spent five years living and working in Africa, making significant contributions to the continent’s financial services industry.

In 2016, Chris started Yellow Card from his dorm room in Auburn, Alabama, before moving the company to Lagos, Nigeria, and launching the mobile app in 2019. Today, Yellow Card is the largest crypto company on the African continent, as well as the first and only licensed pan-African exchange.

With Chris at the helm as CEO, Yellow Card has facilitated over $2B USD in transactions, grown to over 200 employees across 25 countries, and launched full on-and-off ramps for local fiat currencies in 17 African markets.

Chris has led the company through three successful funding rounds, securing over $50 million—the most ever raised by a crypto company on the African continent—from investors including Polychain Capital, Valar Ventures, Third Prime Ventures, Block’s Cash App, Coinbase, and more.

Chris has delivered keynote addresses at conferences attended by heads of state and advised ministers and financial regulators across the continent on crypto adoption in Africa. He has been interviewed and featured by prominent international and pan-African media platforms such as CNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Business Insider.

Chris graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Finance. While in school, Chris spent his summers volunteering at Camp Smile for differently-gifted children and adults. He has a black belt in TaeKwonDo, is an Eagle Scout, and was a finalist for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships in 2019. Chris was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List (2023) in the "Finance" and "Big Money Startups" categories.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismaurice18/