Amitabh Saxena

Amitabh is Managing Director at Digital Disruptions, a global fintech innovation consultancy, and has 22 years hands-on experience in fintech and product innovation in over 25 countries. As Head of Product for the firm, he has led engagements with public sector clients (e.g., International Monetary Fund, United Nations, GSMA) and private sector ones (e.g., Vodafone M-Pesa, Mastercard, Amazon, Ecobank) alike. He has also provided training on innovation methodologies to clients such as the IFC and DAI, and has written thought-leadership reports for the World Economic Forum and USAID. Previously, he was Vice-President for Mastercard’s Emerging Products team, where he was responsible for Mobile Money in Latin America. Prior to that, he started and led the Alternative Channels practice area for Accion International, consulting on mobile banking, prepaid cards, and banking agents to its network of financial institutions, based out of the firm’s Colombia and Washington, DC offices. Amitabh also worked for the GSMA’s Mobile Money team in London and for Jamii Bora Bank in Nairobi, Kenya. He started his career as a Product Manager in the Product Innovation Center at Capital One, a US Fortune 100 bank. Amitabh is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, and holds an MBA from INSEAD (France/Singapore) and a Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering from McGill University from his native Montreal, Canada. He previously served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, where he taught an MBA course on New Product Development for 5 years.