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Job Title: Co-founder and CEO
Organisation: GrowForMe Limited
Professional History: Nana Opoku Ware Ofori Agyeman-Prempeh has more than a decade's experience in fintech, agritech, and technology and his entrepreneurship has been focused on developing tech solutions for underserved markets. He is spearheading Grow For Me's Pan-African strategy after successfully deploying the first farmer-centric service on the largest mobile money platform in Ghana, MTN-Mobile Money. This provides farmers with a ready market, inputs, training, insurance, loans and savings. He also spearheaded the creation of Africa’s first crowdfunding regulations to open up retail financing to small and medium-sized businesses to address challenges in Africa’s food systems.
Nana represented Africa’s private sector at the the 32nd Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa.
Academic and professional credentials: MPhil. in Agricultural Engineering (Machine Systems)
Programs: Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2019
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) program from 2015 to 2016