Simon Poole & Marjorie Saint-Lot Join Hubtel’s Management Advisory Council 

Kokomlemle, Accra – September 11, 2025 – Hubtel, Ghana’s leading payment service provider, today announces the appointment of Simon Poole and Marjorie Saint-Lot to its Management Advisory Council, strengthening its vision to expand across Africa and reinforce its position as one of the continent’s most trusted digital commerce and payment enabler. 

The addition of Simon Poole and Marjorie Saint-Lot to its advisory leadership brings extensive expertise in finance, governance, capital markets, digital transformation, and cross-border expansion. 

Simon Poole – Finance, Governance & Value Creation Expert 

Simon Poole is a distinguished finance and investment leader whose career spans more than three decades across Africa, Europe, and international markets. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with PwC London, where he worked on landmark privatizations and management buyouts, he joined Bank of America as Vice President of Corporate Finance, building its advisory services for telecom clients and structuring complex debt and equity deals. 

His career took him into operational finance, where he pioneered shareholder value-based performance metrics, and then at Celtel International. At Celtel, Poole held CFO roles across multiple African markets before becoming Group Financial Controller in Amsterdam. He played a pivotal role in Celtel’s growth into one of Africa’s largest telecom operators, culminating in its landmark $3 billion acquisition by Zain. 

In 2011, Poole became an Operating Partner at Helios Investment Partners, Africa’s largest private equity firm with $3.5 billion under management. For over a decade, he served on boards and committees across diverse sectors, helping to rebuild management teams, embed Lean Six Sigma operational discipline, and elevate governance standards. His leadership contributed directly to the transformation and IPOs of several major companies: CAB Payments, which grew fifteenfold and listed on the London Stock Exchange as part of the FTSE 250; Helios Towers, one of Africa’s leading telecom infrastructure companies, which also listed in London in 2019; and Vivo Energy, carved out from Shell and floated in 2018. He also chaired the board of Solevo, a pan-African agricultural inputs distributor, strengthening its route-to-market and farmer engagement before its sale to DPI. 

Poole has also contributed to the rise of Africa’s fintech sector through board positions at Interswitch in Nigeria and Fawry in Egypt, both of which have become industry leaders in payments and digital services. Across his career, he has combined capital markets expertise with governance rigor to deliver sustainable value creation in frontier and emerging markets. At Hubtel, Simon brings unmatched experience in IPO leadership, financial discipline, and risk management to help the company achieve its vision of becoming Africa’s most useful company. 

Marjorie Saint-Lot – Digital Transformation & Market Expansion Strategist 

Marjorie Saint-Lot is a global executive with more than 20 years of experience leading digital transformation, financial inclusion, and market expansion initiatives across Africa, Europe, and North America. Fluent in both English and French, she has successfully bridged cultures and markets, delivering growth and innovation in some of the world’s most dynamic and challenging environments. 

She is currently Head of Francophone Africa at Taptap Send, where she manages operations across 14 countries with transaction volumes exceeding $300 million monthly. In this role, she has spearheaded four new market launches and deepened the company’s role in connecting African families and communities to vital remittance and payment services. 

Previously, she held several senior leadership roles at Uber, where she oversaw operations in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Tanzania, and Pakistan. In Ghana, she achieved profitability amid severe macroeconomic headwinds, proving the viability of new models in frontier markets. In Côte d’Ivoire, she led Uber’s operations to achieve 60-fold growth in just 12 months. Beyond growth metrics, Saint-Lot championed inclusion as Uber’s Women’s Empowerment Strategy Leader for Africa and the Middle East, creating pathways for women drivers and co-chairing Uber SSA’s women leadership programs. 

Before Uber, she spent nearly four years at Orange Côte d’Ivoire, where she directed high-value acquisitions worth more than €300 million and integrated subsidiaries in Liberia and Burkina Faso. Her leadership also drove innovative business models across mobile money, e-commerce, energy, and banking, positioning Orange as a leading player in West Africa’s digital economy. Earlier in her career, she held operational and strategic roles at Digicel Haiti, Veolia Transdev in France, PwC in Boston, and major financial institutions in Canada. She also mobilized €30 million in development funding for Côte d’Ivoire through her work with ADDR and the African Development Bank. 

Alongside her executive roles, Saint-Lot serves on the Board of Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire, where she contributes to Audit and Governance Committees. She is also the Founder and CEO of Yarey Consultancy Group, advising organizations on growth strategy and governance. She holds a Master’s in Financial & Economic Engineering from Université de La Réunion in France and a Financial Planning Diploma from George Brown College in Toronto. 

At Hubtel, Marjorie brings her proven expertise in digital strategy, cross-border expansion, and stakeholder engagement to advance the company’s mission of enabling everyone to participate fully in Africa’s emerging digital economy. 

Building Africa’s Most Useful Company 

With Simon and Marjorie on its advisory council, Hubtel is equipped with the leadership and insight to expand beyond Ghana and help shape the future of Africa’s digital economy. 

About Hubtel 

Hubtel is a leading technology company licensed by the Bank of Ghana as an Enhanced Payment Service Provider. 

The company makes it easy for people to find and pay for everyday essentials from local businesses of all sizes. Hubtel’s payment processing, messaging, and feature-rich platform enable users to pay bills, make payments, order food, and purchase everyday essentials. 

The Financial Times of the UK named Hubtel as Ghana’s fastest-growing company for the 2022 financial year. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Forbes Magazine have also previously featured the company. 

Hubtel operates 23 offices across Ghana and has about 700 direct employees. Founded in 2005, Hubtel’s mission is to drive Africa forward by enabling everyone to find and pay for everyday essentials. The company aims to be Africa’s most useful company, building a platform on which everyone can find, pay, and easily partake in the emerging digital economy across the continent.