Gillian Darko Steps Into VP of Strategy Role at Yellow Card to Champion Stablecoins in Emerging Markets
Yellow Card, a leading fintech company, has appointed Gillian Darko as its new Vice President of Strategy, sitting within the executive team and reporting into the CEO. An award-winning executive with experience at JP Morgan Asset Management, PwC, JUMO and other top institutions, Darko previously served as Yellow Card’s Chief of Staff and Director of Strategy.
In her role, she will lead the company’s long term growth strategy, innovation initiatives, and expansions into new markets. She brings extensive expertise in board governance and regulatory navigation, having served on executive boards across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, and Tanzania. Her appointment reflects Yellow Card’s commitment to embedding world-class financial discipline into its core operations.
Darko is also an Ambassador for Women in Payments Africa and a former nominee for Outstanding Woman in Tech, underscoring her leadership in advancing gender diversity in the fintech sector.
On this new role Darko says, “Stepping into this role is about seizing the momentum we’ve built and accelerating it. My focus is on driving revenue through a powerful growth engine, built on innovative commercial strategies that expand our market presence, unlock new opportunities, and create sustainable value. This means not only leveraging our existing strategic partnerships with global leaders, but actively forging new alliances that strengthen our competitive position and fuel our next phase of growth.”
About Yellow Card:
Yellow Card is the largest licensed stablecoin-based infrastructure provider operating in 20 African countries and the emerging markets.
Our mission is to make it easy for businesses of all sizes to make international payments, protect their financial assets, manage their treasury function, and access hard currency liquidity. Leveraging the power of stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar (e.g. USDC, USDT, and PYUSD), we deliver our innovative solutions through our commercial trading function, our B2B products (i.e. our payments API and “widget”), and our retail and small business platform.
Since launching our first product in Nigeria in 2019, we have generated volumes of almost US$6 billion, 99% of which is attributable to stablecoins. We employ over 200 individuals from 24 countries and we have completed US$85 million in equity financings.
