Bio

Emmanuel Udotong is the co-founder and CEO of Shield, which provides banking, payments and business credit for importers, exporters, wholesalers and resellers. Shield has processed $600M+ in total transaction volume and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Kraken and MoonPay.

Emmanuel Udotong is the co-founder and CEO of Shield, a financial services company for businesses that trade across borders. Shield gives importers, exporters and wholesalers a US-dollar account, international payments and business credit, with payments settled on USDT and USDC stablecoins. The company is a registered Money Services Business in the US and has processed $600M+ in total transaction volume. Shield is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Kraken and MoonPay, plus angels from JPMorgan, American Express, Bank of America, Coinbase and Menlo Ventures.

Before Shield, Emmanuel was on the founding team of Releaf, a Y Combinator-backed trade business, and ran its agricultural processing factory in rural Nigeria. He then spent a year at McKinsey & Company in Lagos building a risk and controls program for a $200B bank. He graduated from Princeton in 2019.