Prateek is the Managing Director at BFA Global, where he leads the organization's strategy and partnerships to advance climate resilience, financial health, and venture building. With over 30 years of experience across 40 countries, he brings together technology, capital, and institutions to build inclusive solutions that benefit low-income and vulnerable communities.
Most recently, he served as Vice President of Digital at Accion, where he led the Mastercard–Accion Partnership, reaching more than 30 million people worldwide, and helped design the $152.5 million Accion Digital Transformation Fund. Before this, Prateek was Managing Director of Monitise Emerging Markets, pioneering shared mobile payments infrastructure across Africa and Asia, and co-founded BeyondBranches in Nigeria, which became Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services. In 2023, he co-founded EMpact, a venture studio for inclusive innovation in Guatemala and Côte d’Ivoire, and launched soilnet.ai, an IoT- and AI-driven experiment for agriculture.
His areas of expertise include digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cyber-resilience, organizational change management, inclusive finance, venture building, and capital mobilization, with a career spanning fintech, agriculture, and climate resilience. He holds an MBA with distinction in Microfinance & Mobile Banking from Henley Business School in the UK, an MSc in Computer Science, and a BSc in Applied Computing from the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has also completed executive education at Harvard Business School and holds a blended certificate in Digital Transformation (AI and Platforms) from MIT. Prateek serves on the Board of Annapurna Finance in India.
