Ideshini Naidoo

Chief Technology Officer, Wave HQ

Ideshini Naidoo is Senior Vice President, Engineering at Wave where she leads a team of over 100 engineers. She brings a depth of knowledge in technology and information systems within the Fintech space, having led major development efforts at both startups and large banks. Ideshini‘ extensive knowledge in electronic banking with large scale, multi-country, multi-platform implementation experience, comes from leading corporate electronic banking channels across Africa at Barclays Bank. As Chief Information Officer of Rand Merchant Bank’s Corporate Bank she led architecting and building complex corporate banking platforms as well as the wider FirstRand Bank’s (one of Africa’s largest banks), Swift and Settlement systems. She is now focused on paving the path for Wave to change the world of small business financial services, one entrepreneur at a time.