Built for your global life.

You earn here, you support family there, and what you spend on one side shapes what you can send to the other. Odola puts them in one place: your account, debit card and international transfers. Helping you to plan for what’s next.

Our Story

Most apps solve the transfer.
We built everything around it.

Ismail Ahmed founded WorldRemit in 2010 and spent eight years making it cheaper and easier to send money across borders. That solved one part of the problem. It didn't solve the rest -  the account the money leaves from, how you budget your spending, whether what you send arrives and what it cost you to send it.


Odola brings them together: an account, a card, international transfers, and real human support when you need one.

Our Team

Built by people who know global finance.

One app. One relationship. Built around your global life.

Odola brings together people who have built and operated international payments, financial products and technology at scale. Our team combines experience from WorldRemit, Amazon, IBM, Crypto.com, Western Union, Travelex and other global businesses with deep expertise in compliance, finance, operations and customer care. We share one focus: building a simpler, more dependable financial experience for people whose lives span borders.

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Founders

Dr. Ismail Ahmed

Founder & CEO

Ismail founded WorldRemit in 2010 and led it as chief executive for eight years, building it into a global money transfer business last valued at $5 billion. As a United Nations adviser, he helped money transfer companies across East Africa strengthen their anti-money laundering controls. He holds a PhD from the University of London and an MBA from London Business School.

Dr. Abdigani Diriye

Co-founder & CPO

Abdigani shapes Odola’s product vision. He founded Bloom, a Y Combinator-backed neobank, and led artificial intelligence teams at Amazon and IBM working on products used by millions of people. An author or named inventor on more than 50 papers and patents, he holds a PhD in computer science from University College London and an MBA from INSEAD.

Building the product

Mohammed Kazzam

Head of Product

Mohammed leads product delivery at Odola. He was previously Director of Product at Crypto.com, scaling payments and financial products across six markets, and held strategy and commercial roles at Travelex.

Daniel Bober

Lead Engineer

Daniel builds and operates Odola’s secure payment systems, spanning secure development, cloud operations and incident response alongside the compliance team. He began his career at Amazon in Gdańsk, working on Alexa’s text-to-speech systems

Protecting customers & earning trust

Chris Gunias

Chief Compliance Officer

Chris leads compliance across Odola, including the US programme. Fourteen years at Western Union and three as WorldRemit’s Chief Compliance Officer and Bank Secrecy Act Officer.

Kate Petrie

Head of Compliance & MLRO

Kate is Odola’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer, leading its financial crime framework. ICA-certified, with more than ten years in anti-money laundering across WorldRemit and Integrated Finance.

Marie-Genevieve Vellin

Head of Compliance AUS/NZ & AML Officer

Marie leads Odola’s Asia-Pacific business and regional compliance. Previously Head of Compliance at Ezypay and Compliance Officer at Travelex Global Business Payments (Australia), following earlier experience at Nium and WorldRemit.

Dajana Nozic

Country Dir. Netherlands

Dajana leads Odola in the Netherlands and its engagement with De Nederlandsche Bank. She co-founded Prosper and previously worked in financial crime compliance at Mollie.

Reinout Rietveld

Compliance & Risk Dir. Netherlands

Reinout leads Dutch compliance and risk. A former regulator at De Nederlandsche Bank, he has worked at Rabobank, Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO and PayU.

Running the business

Rob Gregersen

Chief Financial Officer

Rob leads finance across the Odola group, including treasury, safeguarding of customer funds and regulatory reporting. He was previously Vice President of Finance and Administration at GiftCertificates.com, following senior finance and risk roles at Tango Card.

Leslie Ladiana

Finance Director

Leslie runs Odola’s core finance operations. A Certified Public Accountant with more than ten years across the Philippines, UAE, UK and US, covering audits, statutory reporting and customer fund reconciliations.

Nino Capanzana

Head of Operations

Nino leads payment operations, transaction monitoring and customer support across Odola’s markets. He was previously Senior Technical Operations Manager at WorldRemit, and comes from a software engineering background.

Grow with our communities

Hannah Tait

Head of Communications & Partnerships

Hannah leads communications and partnerships at Odola and serves as a UK Director. As the company’s first employee, she helped take the app from concept to launch.

Janice Chang

Head of Brand and Marketing

Janice leads brand and marketing, bringing twelve years’ experience across WorldRemit, Sendwave and Zepz, leading marketing teams in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America.

Rhys Orwin

Head of Performance Marketing

Rhys leads Odola’s performance marketing. A growth and acquisition specialist with more than a decade scaling fintechs, including WorldRemit, across emerging markets.

Papa B. Ndiaye

Head of Growth

Papa leads community growth in the United States. A remittance and diaspora marketing specialist who previously led US market launch activity at Sendwave and WorldRemit.

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One account for the life you're building.

Spend here. Send money home. Plan for what’s next.

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Copyright © 2026 Odola Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Odola Inc. is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Odola account is provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. The Odola Visa® debit card is issued by Lead Bank, Member FDIC, and provides access to funds in your Odola account. Odola is not FDIC-insured.

Funds in your Odola account are held at Lead Bank in a custodial account established for the benefit of Odola customers. If the applicable conditions are satisfied, those funds are eligible for FDIC deposit insurance on a pass-through basis, up to the standard maximum deposit insurance amount of $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, if Lead Bank fails.

Pass-through coverage is not automatic. It applies only if applicable legal and recordkeeping requirements are met. These include that your funds must be on deposit at Lead Bank; Lead Bank's deposit account records must show that the funds are held in a fiduciary or custodial capacity for Odola customers; records maintained by Lead Bank, Odola, or another party in the ordinary course of business must identify each customer and each customer's balance; and the relationship supporting pass-through coverage must be genuine. Odola and Lead Bank maintain records and reconciliation controls to support these requirements.

Your FDIC insurance coverage is shared across all deposits you hold at Lead Bank in the same ownership category. If you also hold deposits at Lead Bank directly or through another program that uses Lead Bank, those balances are added to your Odola account balance for purposes of the $250,000 limit.

Funds may not be FDIC-insured before they are received by Lead Bank, after they leave Lead Bank, or while they are otherwise not deposits at Lead Bank.

To learn more about FDIC deposit insurance, visit fdic.gov or use the FDIC's Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) at edie.fdic.gov.

The Odola Visa® Debit Card is issued by Lead Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. Visa and the Visa Brand Mark are registered trademarks of Visa International Service Association. Lead Bank is a licensed user.

One account for the life you're building.

Spend here. Send money home. Plan for what’s next.

Main Pages

Home

About

Support

Get in touch

Locations

United Kingdom

United States

Legal

Legal Agreements

Copyright © 2026 Odola Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Odola Inc. is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Odola account is provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. The Odola Visa® debit card is issued by Lead Bank, Member FDIC, and provides access to funds in your Odola account. Odola is not FDIC-insured.

Funds in your Odola account are held at Lead Bank in a custodial account established for the benefit of Odola customers. If the applicable conditions are satisfied, those funds are eligible for FDIC deposit insurance on a pass-through basis, up to the standard maximum deposit insurance amount of $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, if Lead Bank fails.

Pass-through coverage is not automatic. It applies only if applicable legal and recordkeeping requirements are met. These include that your funds must be on deposit at Lead Bank; Lead Bank's deposit account records must show that the funds are held in a fiduciary or custodial capacity for Odola customers; records maintained by Lead Bank, Odola, or another party in the ordinary course of business must identify each customer and each customer's balance; and the relationship supporting pass-through coverage must be genuine. Odola and Lead Bank maintain records and reconciliation controls to support these requirements.

Your FDIC insurance coverage is shared across all deposits you hold at Lead Bank in the same ownership category. If you also hold deposits at Lead Bank directly or through another program that uses Lead Bank, those balances are added to your Odola account balance for purposes of the $250,000 limit.

Funds may not be FDIC-insured before they are received by Lead Bank, after they leave Lead Bank, or while they are otherwise not deposits at Lead Bank.

To learn more about FDIC deposit insurance, visit fdic.gov or use the FDIC's Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) at edie.fdic.gov.

The Odola Visa® Debit Card is issued by Lead Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. Visa and the Visa Brand Mark are registered trademarks of Visa International Service Association. Lead Bank is a licensed user.

One account for the life you're building.

Spend here. Send money home. Plan for what’s next.

Main Pages

Home

About

Support

Get in touch

Locations

United Kingdom

United States

Legal

Legal Agreements

Copyright © 2026 Odola Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Odola Inc. is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Odola account is provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. The Odola Visa® debit card is issued by Lead Bank, Member FDIC, and provides access to funds in your Odola account. Odola is not FDIC-insured.

Funds in your Odola account are held at Lead Bank in a custodial account established for the benefit of Odola customers. If the applicable conditions are satisfied, those funds are eligible for FDIC deposit insurance on a pass-through basis, up to the standard maximum deposit insurance amount of $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, if Lead Bank fails.

Pass-through coverage is not automatic. It applies only if applicable legal and recordkeeping requirements are met. These include that your funds must be on deposit at Lead Bank; Lead Bank's deposit account records must show that the funds are held in a fiduciary or custodial capacity for Odola customers; records maintained by Lead Bank, Odola, or another party in the ordinary course of business must identify each customer and each customer's balance; and the relationship supporting pass-through coverage must be genuine. Odola and Lead Bank maintain records and reconciliation controls to support these requirements.

Your FDIC insurance coverage is shared across all deposits you hold at Lead Bank in the same ownership category. If you also hold deposits at Lead Bank directly or through another program that uses Lead Bank, those balances are added to your Odola account balance for purposes of the $250,000 limit.

Funds may not be FDIC-insured before they are received by Lead Bank, after they leave Lead Bank, or while they are otherwise not deposits at Lead Bank.

To learn more about FDIC deposit insurance, visit fdic.gov or use the FDIC's Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) at edie.fdic.gov.

The Odola Visa® Debit Card is issued by Lead Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. Visa and the Visa Brand Mark are registered trademarks of Visa International Service Association. Lead Bank is a licensed user.