Christopher
Baker-Brian
Chris is the Managing Director at Asopo Technologies, a business that is powering Africa’s financed future through its proven software platform that has processed more than 100m payments and reached more than 6m people.
Pulse by Asopo Technologies provides the infrastructure and application layer that powers businesses across the continent with one platform to scale frontier finance.
Prior to this, Chris led Bboxx’s technology strategy, vision and execution for the last 15 years, underpinning the growth of Bboxx into a super platform that has reached more than 6m people across Africa with essential products and services.
Founded in 2010 by Chris and two fellow Imperial College London students, Bboxx has enjoyed fast growth, employing more than 2000 full and part time staff in 15 countries globally.
Chris is the Managing Director at Asopo Technologies, a business that is powering Africa’s financed future through its proven software platform that has processed more than 100m payments and reached more than 6m people.
Pulse by Asopo Technologies provides the infrastructure and application layer that powers businesses across the continent with one platform to scale frontier finance.
Prior to this, Chris led Bboxx’s technology strategy, vision and execution for the last 15 years, underpinning the growth of Bboxx into a super platform that has reached more than 6m people across Africa with essential products and services.
Founded in 2010 by Chris and two fellow Imperial College London students, Bboxx has enjoyed fast growth, employing more than 2000 full and part time staff in 15 countries globally.
Chris has diverse expertise across physical and digital product areas, including clean tech product development and manufacturing, scaling cloud infrastructure, building high performing software engineering teams (both remote and on site) and is equally comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders in a range of settings.
“Building energy & digital infrastructure for growth markets
Impacting 2M+ lives across Africa & Asia”
- Managing Director at Asopo Technologies
- About Me
Leader Driven by Impact and Innovation
Every initiative is approached with clarity, collaboration, and long-term impact in mind.
Christopher Baker-Brian
Managing Director at Asopo Technologies
Co-Founder of Bboxx — reached 6M+ people across Africa & Asia
Specialized in scaling fintech, payments, and clean energy platforms
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- My Core Expertise
I help businesses and founders turn ideas into functional, scalable digital products. Every project is built with performance, clarity, and long-term growth in mind.
Skills
Electrical Engineering
Product Design
Rural Electrification
Electronics
Solar Energy
Electricians
Renewable Energy
Engineering
Energy
Matlab
Project Planning
Project Management
Program Management
Energy Efficiency
Product Development
Sustainability
Research
Team Leadership
Analysis
Engineering Management
Strategy
Business Strategy
Experiences
Asopo Technologies
After a decade building the software platform that powered Bboxx to reach more than 6m people over the last decade, we are taking the step to open up this technology to customers across the continent who may benefit from our innovations in credit, payments and physical asset management.
Various Companies
Board/management/strategic advisor to various companies/entities across sectors in energy, manufacturing and software development.
Bboxx
Hired, grown and led teams of 100+ people on 3 continents (Europe, Africa, Asia) to deliver a range of hardware and software services to Bboxx’s internal and external customers.
– Executed a diverse product strategy ranging from; massively scaling payments infrastructure to clean tech product development/manufacturing and retail software development.
– Led the roll out of Bboxx Pulse; a software platform that has reached 6m customers, >10k internal users, >100m digital payments processed and millions of actions tracked per month.
Professional Excellense Gradte
Engineering Professional Excellence Programme Graduate Scheme.
Placements included Electrical Machine Design, Power Electronics/Heat Exchanger Packaging, Electrical/Control System Design for Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems, a Field Service Officer with BA at Heathrow Airport and an Electrical Development Engineer at Tidal Generation Ltd (Part of the Rolls- Royce Group).
Trusted Feedback From Real Clients
Have an idea or a project in mind? Let’s turn your vision into a high-performing digital solution. I’m open to collaborations, startups, and long-term partnerships.