Anslem Oshionebo, Fintech Professional and Entrepreneur, Based in Dallas, Texas

Anslem Oshionebo is a Dallas-based fintech professional, engineer and entrepreneur. He is driven by a simple idea: technology should make financial services faster, cheaper and fairer for everyone, including families who send money across borders. His background in engineering, accounting, finance, strategy and financial forensics shapes how he builds and leads businesses.

Education and early career

Anslem earned a bachelor's degree in engineering and began his career as a field engineer, gaining experience in oil and gas and construction management. He later returned to school for a master's degree at Seton Hall University and earned his CPA license. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). He worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he developed training materials, taught technical subjects, consulted for clients, wrote thought leadership and helped uphold regulatory standards.

Community values

Outside work, Anslem is committed to his Dallas, Texas community. He believes life is about people coming together, helping one another and supporting each other's wellbeing, and he takes part in several philanthropic efforts.

Teaching preschoolers

He volunteers teaching four-year-old children at a local church. He values access to learning and believes early education prepares children for everything that follows.

Coaching soccer

As a licensed coach, he volunteers with a local soccer team. He sees sport as an accessible and enjoyable route to health, and he works to teach his players good sportsmanship alongside fitness.

Supporting the Anslem Esi Foundation

Anslem supports the Anslem Esi Foundation, which provides learning materials to school children in Nigeria. Many children still lack access to quality education, and he hopes this support will widen educational opportunity in Nigeria and beyond.

A career built across disciplines

Anslem began as a field engineer after earning a degree in mining engineering, gaining hands-on experience in oil and gas and construction management. He then moved into finance, building his career at PwC in Nigeria and the United States, including a rotation in the firm's National and Technical Accounting Research Office. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), a Certified Public Accountant in the United States and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

That combination is unusual. Engineers learn to respect physical constraints and measure before acting. Accountants learn to follow evidence and test controls. Technologists learn to build, release and improve quickly. Anslem brings all three to the businesses he leads today: Tenaza Asset Recovery & Intelligence, where he is CEO and President, and Haricot Energies, where he is Managing Director and CEO.

Why fintech

Financial technology sits where his experience meets: regulation, controls, software and the real needs of customers. Cross-border payments, compliance monitoring and fraud prevention all require someone who understands both the technology and the rules it operates under. He co-founded a software company that grew more than 500 percent year on year and expanded into over 32 countries, and he continues to build compliance and monitoring technology through his consulting and software development firm.

Leadership as service

Outside work, Anslem teaches young children at his church, coaches youth soccer and supports education projects in Nigeria. He sees a direct link between those roles and executive leadership: patience, clear instructions, encouragement and holding standards consistently. Teams, like young players, respond to leaders who show up, explain the why and celebrate progress.

Read more about his background on the About page.

What he focuses on today

Today, Anslem's work concentrates on four areas where his combined experience adds the most value. In fintech, he focuses on payments, compliance technology and fraud prevention. In corporate strategy, he helps leadership teams align strategy with execution, strengthen controls and improve performance. In business development, he structures partnerships between investors, operators and local companies. In upstream oil and gas, through Haricot Energies, he leads opportunities from evaluation through financing and development.

His writing on this site reflects those priorities: practical guidance on fintech regulation, AI in finance, fraud prevention, debt recovery, upstream licensing and financing, and leadership. Each article draws on experience gained across engineering, audit, forensic work, technology and executive leadership in the United States and Nigeria.

Recognition

In 2020, Anslem received the Immigrant Professional Excellence Award at the Immigrant Journey Awards in Dallas, which honour outstanding immigrant entrepreneurs, professionals, community leaders and advocates. In 2026 he led the refurbishment of the Jattu Primary Health Centre in Edo State, Nigeria, a project covered by more than 25 media outlets.