Board and non-executive director search for African fintech
TITC runs retained board and NED searches for fintech and financial services businesses across Africa. For chairs and investors building a board that earns regulator and investor confidence.
The hire that keeps going wrong
After a raise or ahead of a licence, the founder-and-friends board has to grow up. The mistake is appointing a well-known name who adds prestige and nothing else.
A good NED brings a specific competency the board is missing. Regulatory depth. Capital markets. Risk. Real operating experience in your market. A name on the letterhead doesn't strengthen oversight, and regulators and serious investors can tell the difference.
The harder seats are the committee chairs. An audit or risk committee chair who can actually do the job is rare, and the gap shows the moment something goes wrong and the board has to respond.
What good looks like
Directors who strengthen how regulators and investors see the business. Who bring a competency the board genuinely lacks, not a duplicate of what's already there. Who challenge management constructively rather than rubber-stamp. And, where it matters, who bring substantive local-market and diversity representation, not the cosmetic kind.
How we run it
We map NEDs against the specific gap on your board, regulatory, financial, technical or commercial. For licence and raise-driven appointments we factor in how the regulator and incoming investors will read the board.
Common questions
When should a fintech build out its board?
Typically after an institutional raise, ahead of a licence application, or when governance maturity becomes a condition of investment. The signal is investors or regulators asking who provides independent oversight.
What should a fintech look for in a non-executive director?
A specific competency the board lacks, regulatory, capital markets, risk or operating depth, plus the independence to challenge management. Reputation alone doesn't improve oversight.
Can TITC find independent directors for regulated fintech boards?
Yes. We place NEDs and committee chairs with the regulatory standing and sector depth that strengthen how the FSCA, SARB and investors view the business.
Discuss a mandate
Building the board for a raise or a licence? Tell us the gap you need to fill.