Amber Thetford

Amber Thetford is Chief Product Officer for Card Processing at Onafriq, a leading pan African fintech headquartered in South Africa that is expanding financial access across the CEMEA region. With over a decade in the fintech space, she leads product strategy and execution for Onafriq's card processing business, working closely with partners and distributed teams across the U.S. and Africa to bring secure, scalable payment products to market. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Amber holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University and is actively pursuing her Executive-MBA degree at MIT Sloan. Outside of work, she's balancing very active schedules of her two children.