Ramatoulaye Adama Diallo
Global AI-savvy fintech leader
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About Ramatoulaye Adama Diallo
Ramatoulaye Adama Diallo is a globally experienced business leader, board director, and advisor with over 25 years of executive and governance experience spanning Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Her career sits at the intersection of strategy, finance, technology, and institutional leadership, with a particular focus on regulated environments, digital transformation, and inclusive growth in emerging and frontier markets.
She is currently a Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair or member on several financial services and impact-driven boards, including regulated fintech and e-money institutions operating across Europe and Africa. In parallel, she serves on investment committees for Africa-focused venture and impact funds, where she brings deep operating judgment to capital allocation, governance, and scale-up decisions. She is also an Executive-in-Residence at Trinity Business School’s Corporate Governance Lab, contributing to research and executive education on AI and board oversight.
Previously, Ramatoulaye held senior executive roles at Google, where she was Director and COO for Large Customer Sales into the French market, overseeing a USD 3 billion portfolio across multiple sectors including financial services, telecoms, retail, and technology. In this role, she combined commercial leadership with operational excellence, cross-border growth strategy, and early engagement on the practical implications of AI for enterprise customers. She also acted as a fintech Advisor to Google Cloud’s Financial Services AI product teams.
Before Google, Ramatoulaye was Chief Executive Officer of Orange Finances Mobiles in Senegal and a senior executive within the Orange Sonatel Group. There, she led the transformation of Orange Money from a fragmented, under-scaled operation into one of the highest-performing fintech platforms in the region. Under her leadership, the business scaled to millions of customers, quadrupled revenues, expanded nationwide retail and merchant networks, and established strong governance, risk, and regulatory frameworks. She worked closely with central banks, ministries, and international partners, maintaining clean audits while driving rapid growth. Her work was recognized multiple times by Orange Middle East & Africa with regional performance and digital innovation awards.
Earlier in her career, Ramatoulaye was Deputy CFO at Etisalat Nigeria (now 9mobile), where she led treasury, capital structure, and corporate finance for a USD 1 billion telecoms operator. She raised more than USD 2 billion in financing, including landmark syndicated debt transactions and the acquisition of a 3G license, earning multiple international project finance awards. She began her career in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley in New York and in private equity with Emerging Capital Partners, working on pan-African investments.
Beyond corporate leadership, Ramatoulaye has founded and advised entrepreneurial ventures, served on non-profit boards, and coached founders and CEOs navigating growth, regulation, and governance complexity. Her work consistently bridges commercial ambition with institutional strength—helping organizations grow while remaining resilient, ethical, and accountable.
Ramatoulaye is known as a clear, grounded, and engaging speaker who translates complex topics—such as AI governance, financial regulation, and board oversight—into practical insight for directors and senior leaders. Her speaking style blends strategic rigor with lived experience, drawing on real boardrooms, turnaround situations, and capital events rather than theory alone.
She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BSc in Mathematics and Economics (magna cum laude), and a Diploma in Company Direction with Distinction from the Institute of Directors UK & Ireland. She is fluent in English and French and brings deep cultural fluency across African, European, and Middle Eastern contexts.
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Scaling Is Not a Slide Deck: Lessons from the CEO Chair
What it really takes to scale a business, beyond frameworks and theory. Drawing on experience as CEO and senior operator in fintech, telecoms, and technology, this talk explores the hard trade-offs leaders face as they grow: talent, capital, culture, regulation, and execution under pressure.
Growth Breaks Things: How to Scale Without Losing Control
Rapid growth exposes weaknesses in systems, governance, and leadership. This session examines how CEOs can anticipate the stress points that emerge during scale—and build resilience without slowing momentum.
Scaling Across Borders: Growth in Regulated and Complex Markets
Scaling across countries is not just about expansion—it’s about navigating regulation, culture, and risk simultaneously. Lessons from building and growing businesses across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
AI as a Growth Lever, Not a Science Project
How CEOs and leadership teams can use AI to drive real revenue growth, cost discipline, and customer insight—without losing focus or exposing the business to unmanaged risk.
When Growth Meets the Boardroom: What Changes at ScaleAs companies grow, the role of the board—and the relationship between management and directors—must evolve. This session explores how CEOs and boards can stay aligned during periods of rapid expansion.
Governing Growth Without Killing It
Governance is often seen as a brake on growth. In reality, the right governance enables sustainable scale. This talk reframes governance as a growth enabler rather than a compliance exercise.
AI, Power, and Accountability: What Leaders Are Now Responsible For
As AI reshapes decision-making, accountability does not disappear—it concentrates. A leadership and board-level conversation about power, responsibility, and trust in AI-enabled organizations.
From Operator to Director: What Changes—and What Doesn’t
For senior executives stepping into board roles, this talk addresses the mindset shift required to lead through influence rather than control—without losing relevance or impact.
Client Feedback
"Thank you very much, Rama, for your session. It was exceptionally well suited to a board audience. I must say you are the first speaker who truly gave me the keys—and, more importantly, the right questions to be asking. Bravo."
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