Founder

Thierry Mbimi

A banking executive, engineer, lecturer, and entrepreneur, Thierry Mbimi carries the vision of ASKIA Consulting Group: connecting institutional expertise, technology, and African platform building.

Banking Engineering Advisory Venture building
Thierry Mbimi
Founder, ASKIA Consulting Group

Positioning

Institutional experience with a platform-building focus.

Thierry Mbimi brings senior banking leadership experience across Africa, former consulting and advisory exposure, an engineering background, executive education exposure, and teaching experience in finance and financial engineering.

His entrepreneurial work through ASKIA focuses on African technology platforms, financial inclusion, capital markets, and practical digital solutions adapted to institutional and market needs.

Credibility areas

A profile at the intersection of finance, technology, and execution.

BF

Banking and finance

Experience across financial services, risk, internal audit, and institutional execution.

ET

Engineering and technology

Technical background applied to platform design, systems thinking, and operational solutions.

TA

Teaching and advisory

Finance and financial engineering exposure connected to practical market development.

VB

Venture building

Focus on creating African platforms that solve structural challenges and can scale.

Journey

A journey across banking, advisory, technology, and African markets.

The founder’s path connects pan-African financial institutions, senior advisory, risk management, capital markets, teaching, and technology entrepreneurship.

2007 - 2013

Quantitative research and proprietary trading models

Personal work on a quantitative trading model combining financial engineering, backtesting, risk management, and market logic.

2011 - 2013

Deloitte Australia: treasury, capital markets, and financial risk

Led work across treasury, capital markets, risk models, system validation, and financial transformation.

2013 - 2017

KPMG Nigeria and West Africa: Financial Risk Management

Built and led the Financial Risk Management practice across risk, regulation, treasury, capital markets, and banking transformation.

2017 - 2024

KPMG Central Africa: regional leadership and executive management

Partner & COO, CEO & Managing Partner, Lead Advisory Services, and Regional Financial Services Leader for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa.

2022 - aujourd’hui

Teaching: finance, risk, blockchain, and financial engineering

Academic activity at IUG, UCAC, the University of Lomé, and Lagos Business School across finance, risk, investment, and innovation.

2023 - aujourd’hui

MoranjETrade: digital capital markets platform

Founded and executive-sponsored a web and mobile platform designed to broaden retail, SME, and investor access to African equity and bond markets.

2024 - aujourd’hui

Ecobank Group: Group Executive, Internal Audit & Management Services

Leadership role within a pan-African banking institution present in 35 sub-Saharan African countries, supporting transformation, control, and group performance.

ASKIA

ASKIA Consulting Group: advisory, technology, and platforms

ASKIA formalizes this combination of experiences: supporting institutions, building intellectual property, and developing digital platforms adapted to African realities.