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Harvey Dent
Fintech Product Lead · Dakar
TOTAL EXPERIENCE BALANCE
9 yrs 4 mo
Building payment and savings products for West African users since 2016.
Mobile money
Card issuing
KYC & risk
Product ops

Summary

About this account

I lead product for consumer wallets and merchant tools, most recently at a Dakar-based neobank serving 2.1M active users. Over the last three years my teams shipped features that cut onboarding drop-off from 41% to 18% and moved instant transfers to a median of 4.2 seconds. I read support tickets on Fridays because roadmaps age faster than the complaints do.

Recent transactions

Career milestones · credits
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Head of Product · Jamono Wallet
Owned the consumer wallet and card roadmap for a 60-person org. Grew monthly active users from 780K to 2.1M and raised 90-day retention 22 points by reworking the first-run flow and adding scheduled bill pay.
Leadership
+ Lead
2022 – now
📱
Senior PM · Teranga Pay
Launched QR merchant payments across 3 regions, onboarding 14,000 shops in the first year. Built the dispute flow that dropped chargeback handling time from 9 days to 2.
Payments
+ Senior
2019 – 2022
🔐
Product Manager · Baobab Micro
Ran the KYC and lending onboarding squad. Cut identity review time from 48 hours to under 6 with a tiered verification model, keeping approval fraud below 0.7%.
Risk & KYC
+ PM
2017 – 2019
📊
Associate PM · Sahel Telco Digital
First product hire on the airtime top-up team. Shipped an in-app balance widget used by 320K users a month and set up the analytics stack the team still runs on.
Growth
+ APM
2016 – 2017

Savings goals

What I am working toward
🌍
Cross-border transfers
Pilot in 2 corridors70%
🧑‍🏫
Mentoring 5 junior PMs
3 of 5 placed60%
📚
Offline-first payments spec
Drafting v245%
🗣️
Speak at 2 fintech events
1 confirmed50%

Spending categories

Skills
Product strategy
92%
Payment rails
88%
User research
80%
SQL & metrics
74%
Risk & compliance
78%

Statements

Education
🎓
MSc, Information Systems
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar. Thesis on mobile money adoption in rural markets.
2016
📐
BSc, Computer Science
Institut Polytechnique Delta, Saint-Louis.
2013
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Certified Product Manager
Sahel Product Guild. Languages: French, Wolof, English.
2020
JAMONO · VIRTUAL 🇸🇳 Dakar
4021 · 8830 · 2016 · 2025
Card holder
Harvey Dent
Valid thru
07 / 28