Joel Yarbrough is the Founder and CEO of Moment, a pan-African fintech building the continent's most complete payments infrastructure platform to enable better lives for businesses and consumers across Africa.

Joel brings over two decades of cross-disciplinary experience in payments, technology, banking, and management consulting, having started his career at JPMorgan Chase before co-founding an online learning startup and consulting to global financial institutions.

A passionate technologist and self-described dot connector, Joel led Global Product Strategy and APAC Product Management at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member of PayPal's non-profit charitable giving fund, earning the 2013 MOB-EX Award for his work on the PayPal Connected Commerce Platform.

Joel served as Head of Product and then Head of Business and Corporate Development for GrabPay at Grab, Southeast Asia's largest tech startup, before becoming VP Asia Pacific and MD of Rapyd Ventures at global fintech-as-a-service platform Rapyd from 2018 to 2023.

Since launching in 2023, Moment now processes 600,000 transactions per day, serves 10 million people monthly across Africa's leading brands, and has raised $55 million in total funding to build one of the continent's most advanced payment infrastructure businesses.