Mitchell Elegbe

Background

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Mitchell Elegbe, Interswitch founder, is a systems-first fintech builder who pairs big vision with gritty execution. He builds rails before hype, earns trust through reliability, and treats compliance and resilience as non-negotiable. Elegbe’s leadership is focused, pragmatic, and partnership-minded; he scales through infrastructure, disciplined growth, and long-term relationships with institutions. Distinctive for patient ecosystem-building and operational rigor, he shows how durable payments infrastructure is forged—one dependable transaction at a time—anywhere.

Operating Beliefs

1) Build the rails.

Infrastructure outlasts trends.

Enbaling Behaviours:

• Solve for uptime, latency, and failure recovery first.

• Design for scale before marketing for scale.

• Make reliability a KPI every team owns.

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2) Trust is the product.

Security and compliance are growth.

Enbaling Behaviours:

• Build controls into the workflow, not after the fact.

• Document processes and audit them routinely.

• Treat incidents as drills: learn, fix, harden.

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3) Ecosystems beat solo wins.

Partnership compounds reach.

Enbaling Behaviours:

• Align incentives with banks, merchants, and regulators.

• Ship integrations that remove friction for partners.

• Invest in talent pipelines and local capability.

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Recomended action

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Pick one reliability or trust weak-spot in your “customer journey,” define a measurable standard (uptime, fraud rate, turnaround time), ship one control or fix that improves it, and share the before/after metric with your team this week.

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