Chimezie Emewulu
Chimezie Emewulu is a Nigerian technology executive, software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Seamfix Limited, a digital identity and enterprise technology company operating across Africa and other regions.
Early life and education
Emewulu is originally from Ihiala in Anambra State and was raised in Nsukka. He attended the University of Nigeria Secondary School, Nsukka. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He later completed the executive and postgraduate business education programmes at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, as well as programmes associated with INSEAD and Henley Business School.Career
Emewulu began his career in the information technology and services sector, working in software development and enterprise technology solutions. After resigning from a paid job in 2006 to found Seamfix, he faced significant financial hardship. To generate income for basic needs and to power a generator for overnight coding, he sourced honey from Nsukka, bottled it in reused containers, and hawked it at a local market while wearing his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) uniform. He later acquired a danfo bus, which he operated as a daily transportation business. In October 2007, he co-founded Seamfix Limited, a company focused on digital identity, biometric systems, and large-scale technology infrastructure.Emewulu has been at the forefront of efforts to enhance identity protection systems, and as Group CEO, he has overseen the company's expansion from a startup into a multinational technology firm providing identity enrolment, verification, and access management solutions. Seamfix operates in several countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, with technology deployments across parts of West and East Africa.
In 2015, MTN Group partnered with Seamfix to strengthen its subscriber identity verification infrastructure following regulatory actions by the Nigerian Communications Commission related to improperly registered SIM cards. Seamfix and MTN moved beyond Nigeria to five other African countries for SIM card registration. Seamfix has also worked with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Nigeria's National Identification Number (NIN) programme, providing a mobile enrolment application used by agents to register citizens across urban and remote locations nationwide.
In December 2025, Seamfix partnered with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) on identity-related infrastructure within the African financial ecosystem.