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Deliver
Scoping, delivery management and executive peer support for the leadership team: government projects, payment platforms, operator turnarounds.
Lamine ABDOUL HAMID · Founding Partner, Ambora
I get what is decided delivered.
Digital payments, IT governance & security, applied AI. I help leaders and institutions in Central Africa bring to completion the platforms and projects their services depend on, then secure them and multiply their impact with AI.
20 yearsof payment platforms and government projects
5certifications: CISA, PMP, TOGAF, MCSE Security, Google AI
3 countriesof mobile money migrations led
5 / 5deliverables approved for the World Bank in 2026
What I do
Three fronts, one common thread.
Many sell AI. A few do certified cybersecurity. Very few have operated payment platforms in several countries. I do all three, and that is why I get the call when a project decided long ago is not moving.
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Secure and comply
Rapid Compliance & Cyber Assessment in 10 days, then cyber awareness and hardening for your teams.
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Multiply teams with AI
“The AI-Augmented Executive” and “The AI-Augmented Professional”: short programmes, on your files, with your tools.
Track record
Twenty years making critical platforms reliable.
The same pattern, repeated in different settings: take a system that does not exist yet or does not work, make it reliable, then adopted and profitable.
Today
Ambora · Mayele AI
Founding Partner of Ambora, an independent advisory firm; co-founder of Mayele AI, an applied AI company.
World Bank · HISWACA-SOP 2 · 2026
IT infrastructure study of the INS and the CNFSDP
Assessment, requirements, specifications and the terms of reference used for the tender; five deliverables approved on time. Certificate of completion: rated “Highly satisfactory”.
Ministry of Finance · Congo
Government projects
NIU project (biometric identification) delivered; helped stabilise SIGFIP, e-Tax, the data centre and the inter-agency fibre network.
Mobile money · DRC, Congo, Burkina Faso
Director of Operations
Three mobile money platform migrations, and then their operation: availability, incidents, compliance, multi-country teams.
BICEC · BDEAC
SYSTAC / SYGMA
Implemented and operated the BEAC regional clearing and settlement systems, in a commercial bank and then in the sub-regional development bank.
Citibank
CitiDirect payment platform
Took over an unstable, little-used platform; stabilised it, then grew its usage and revenue.
CISAMCSE SecurityPMPTOGAFGoogle AI Professional
Ambora
An independent firm, born between two shores.
I founded Ambora in Brazzaville to carry this work with others: partners and experts brought in as each case requires, five offers with scope and price set in advance. We sell no platform.
My motto: reliable before spectacular.
Contact
What has long been decided in your organisation, but is not moving?
Thirty minutes are enough to know whether I can help, and how. Reply within 24 business hours.