Dr. Aminu Maida is the newly appointed executive vice chairman/chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.
Dr. Maida graduated with a master’s degree (MEng) in information systems engineering from Imperial College, London in 2002 and, in 2006, he bagged a PhD in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Bath, also in the United Kingdom.
Between 2018 and 2019, Maida completed a postgraduate diploma in entrepreneurship (fintech pathway) at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Until his latest appointment by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Dr. Maida was the executive director, technology and operations, at the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), the country’s central switch company owned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and all licensed deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria.
At NIBSS, Dr. Maida was responsible for holistically spearheading the technical and operational standardization of all devices deployed in the financial system in Nigeria for interoperability. He led a dynamic team that ensured that all terminals used in the e-payment industry and all devices deployed in Nigeria would accept all cards issued by banks and other licensed card schemes without discrimination.
Prior to his appointment at NIBSS, Maida was the chief technical officer (CTO) at the Nigerian-based FinTech Arca Payments Network, and senior manager at Cisco Systems, United Kingdom.
As a seasoned technical professional with over 15 years of multi-functional and international experience in fintech, telecoms and enterprise technology, Maida worked between 2010 and 2014 as a network design consultant at EE, part of BT Group, and one of the largest mobile communications companies in the UK. He was also at some point, between 2006 and 2010, a system engineer at Ubiquisys, a leading company in intelligent 3G and LTE small cells, which is now part of Cisco.
Dr. Maida, a professional par excellence with a broad range of experience, making him technically strong and commercially aware, is married with children.
