Kevin Lubega is the General Manager of Ezee Money, Managing Director of Golden Lane Developers, Foundation Leader of the Obama Foundation, among many other companies and organisations that he runs in Uganda.
Kevin is an Engineer by profession but is more passionate about entrepreneurship. He is involved in numerous businesses—all of which he has built from the ground up—spanning very diverse fields like e-commerce, digital financial services, real estate and hi-tech.
He aims to contribute towards solving the biggest challenges we face in Africa, most especially those affecting underserved communities at the base of the pyramid.
In line with that mission, he helped launch EzeeMoney, a Digital Financial Services firm, and he has grown it into a $40m a year operation with presence 5 African countries and is soon to open more operations on the continent.
From as far back as his early teenage years, Lubega used every opportunity he had to work with and learn from his father
He was inspired to solve Africa’s problems through technology. To date, he has founded five companies in diverse industries, including e-commerce, real estate, financial services and oil and gas.
Incorporated in 2012, EzeeMoney is a fintech firm offering electronic money services to clients with or without a mobile phone or formal bank accounts wishing to receive and make multiple payments. They also offer to pay bills, do collections, and offer point of sale money transfers and other e-money services to banks, non-bank corporations, government and NGOs.
EzeeMoney operates in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. They directly employ 80 people and indirectly about 8,000.
