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Peter Ojo
Founder and CEO |
Peter Ojo
President and
CEO
Peter is a visionary whose education
across three continents has influenced his view of what a
payment solution should mean to users and merchants. He's a
well-known and influential figure in the world of electronic
business.
Peter has more than 10 years of progressive
professional experience in transforming business ideas into
e-business solutions. Before founding LFR Communications, Inc,
Peter was responsible for the development of complex Match
Grant National Database for Refugees in the USA as a project
under IRSA Washington DC.
Peter was instrumental in the
development of various software and web enabled applications
for the Internal Revenue Service, Data Mining and analysis for
x-ray machines to enhance the reaction of operators to Tip
images at many airports in the US (TSA/Jill), sales automation
and procurement for AT&T /British Telecom (Concert
project), Intranet for American Standard, Department of
Homeland Security, Hitachi Data System Solutions, and the
ASCII Group, Inc.
In 2005 Peter eliminated the need for
mailing prepaid debit cards to International destinations by
developing a faster and secure algorithm leveraging on PDF
(portable document format) called virtual debit card.
Graphcard, the first client, sold several millions of dollars
worth of prepaid virtual accounts two years after deployment
of this solution without mailing any card. The technology is
now widely used world- wide by many corporations.
In
2007, Peter designed the algorithm-blue print for VTN Mobile /
web payment network to power ecommerce transactions for over 50million GSM users in Nigeria, that has now
processed several million transactions in its pre-launch stage. Same was used to power
USA-Africa trade mission summit successfully.
Peter's strong technical background, good
understanding of e-payment solutions, e-commerce business
models and applications has helped accelerate the growth of
Graphcard, which is currently being used in over 100
countries.
Peter is an alumnus of the University of
Ibadan, the University of Portsmouth, U.K and Kings College
University of London. He is currently studying for a PhD in
Business Administration at NCU with special focus on
ecommerce. He is a former ODASSS (now DFID) Scholar.
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Catherine Berruer
Executive Vice President Business Development |
Catherine Berruer has more than ten years of progressive loan management and client services experience at various national and international agencies and private institutions. She worked at the Department of Agriculture in France in 1993 where she was responsible for facilitating, preparing, structuring, and fulfilling credit proposals for agriculture clients. She managed client loan portfolios, including analyzing financial data, statements, as well as determining credit worthiness. In 1999, she began to work as Scholarship Officer at Microcredit Summit in Washington D.C. During her tenure, she organized conferences in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and other areas and was directly responsible for reviewing and managing $250,000 scholarship to people in poverty-stricken areas. During the same period of time, she also worked at the Sulphur Institute where she was responsible for event planning and personally organized conferences in the U.S., Europe and China.
Ms. Berruer obtained her B.A. (Second class Upper) degree in Applied Language Studies from the Thames Valley University of London, U.K. and in Translation from the University of Rouen, France. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Her extensive international experience has been an asset to LFR Communications, Inc.
