Cellulant, a leading Pan-African payments company, has appointed Michael Muriuki as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO). This strategic move consolidates the oversight of product, platform, and software engineering under a single role to drive further innovation and growth.

• Michael Muriuki has been with Cellulant for over a decade, most recently serving as Vice President of Software Engineering.
• He played a crucial role in modernizing Cellulant's Tingg platform into a cloud-native microservices architecture, which increased transaction throughput from about 1 million to 4.5 million transactions per day in 2025 alone.
• As CPTO, Muriuki will oversee Cellulant's product portfolio, technology foundation, and the development of AI, data, and insights capabilities to bolster the company's focus on enterprise payments and automation.