Organisers of the Nigerian Fintech Awards have announced that Tope Dare has emerged as the salesman of 2022 at a dinner in Lagos on November 4.
The Fintech salesman of the year goes to an outstanding sales professional who has influenced the financial service industry in many ways by promoting the deployment of ATMs by Nigerian banks to address the major issues of cash management and automation with outstanding innovations. Sales are one of the most important functions in the Fintech industry.
Dare is the executive director of sales and strategy (infrastructure business division) at Inlaks, an information and communication technology, and infrastructure solutions provider in Nigeria with a presence in the West and East African regions.
The Nigerian Fintech Awards Director, Sola Fanawopo, said the sales manager’s role in Fintech requires hard and soft skills such as customer relations management as well as personal and interpersonal communications skills. These skills also include cross-functional collaboration, an entrepreneurial mindset, and proactive and vast industry knowledge.
“These are the required skills a salesman needs so that he can have a full grasp of the Fintech industry and develop experiences with B2B and B2C sales,” Fanawopo said.
He added that Fintech salesman of the year was among the new categories introduced to the awards in 2022.
“The members of the jury were impressed with the achievements of Dare in the ATM market landscape, and that was the reason he clinched the award. The award is in recognition of his hard work and efforts that have led to the growth and promotion of the ATM industry in the country and across Africa since 2002 when he was an ATM technical manager in a commercial bank in Nigeria.”