Juan Seco is COO for JumiaPay, the payment and financial services venture of Jumia, the leading online platform in Africa and Africa’s first unicorn. He has been with Jumia for more than three years and joined as the CFO for the group Kenya. For the past year he has overseen the expansion and deployment of JumiaPay in Jumia’s key markets to avail payment and credit solutions to the company’s customers and merchants. 

Prior to Jumia, Juan spent his career at PwC and KPMG working in Audit and then Transaction Services, where he was a Director in New York providing financial due diligence services and M&A advisory for large Corporates and PE Funds. 

Juan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University where he majored in Finance and International Business.