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In 2005, Carol Realini founded Obopay to meet the need for an industry leader in mobile payments technology. In two years, Carol secured $47 million in funding and finalized deals with several major cellular networks and one of the biggest banks in the United States. Today, Obopay is defining an emerging industry and quickly gathering the market share necessary to ensure longevity.
Carol was inspired to found Obopay when she traveled to Africa and saw, first hand, the opportunities that mobile payments would bring to both industrialized and developing nations. Obopay fulfills Carol’s interest in industry-changing advancements and her desire to support social and economic development throughout the world, bringing financial services to millions of under- and unbanked people.
HISTORY OF SUCCESS
Before founding Obopay, Carol was Chairman and CEO of Chordiant Software, a leader in one-to-one marketing and customer interaction software. Carol raised more than $30 million in VC financing and played a key role in the successful IPO of the company. Prior to her success at Chordiant, Carol was the CEO and President of J. Frank Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to helping corporations achieve breakthrough business results through successful applications of enterprise-wide client/server solutions. Carol guided the company through significant growth, ending in the firm’s sale to MCI. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Legato Systems, a network storage software innovator, Carol launched the company’s first series of products and established key strategic business relationships.
Carol holds a B.A. with Honors in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, San Jose. Additionally, Carol successfully completed the Executive Management Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Carol’s passion is education. She and her husband provide scholarships for women in Sierra Leone, Liberia and AIDS orphans in Uganda. | 