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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated Lome
2365 Boulevard du Mono Lome
Lome, Maritime (Région), 00228
Togo

Abla Kossidze

Quantitative Risk Analyst

Abla Kossidze began her studies in Togo before flying to France where she obtained a Master's degree in Finance at the Ecole Polytechnique-Université Pierre Marie Curie in 2011. During that same year, she joined the Europlace Institute of Finance were she was a quantitative analyst. Like many Africans who succeed in the diaspora, Abla Kossidze has ambitions in her native country. In 2013, she created Kopps Research SARL, a firm specialized in market research and surveys.

Andeka Oule

Sohonet Project Manager/ Country Manager at Indigo

With a Bachelor's Degree in Science and Technology in his pocket, Andeka Oule leaves the prestigious Preparatory and Technical Military School (EMPT) of Bingerville (Cote d’Ivoire) in 2006. He later obtained his Master’s Degree in Network and Telecom Systems at the school of the High Technological and Commercial Studies of Abidjan (HETEC). He will subsequently fly to Casablanca (Morocco) in order to improve his skills in referencing, web communication and human resources management.

Edem D'Almeida

Co-founder and CEO of Africa Global Recycling

Edem d'Almeida is a 34-year-old Franco-Togolese, expert in recycling with ten years of experience in the management and recycling of recyclable waste. Edem use to work for the Suez Environment Group before joining a subsidiary of the French SAMSIC Group as Head of Industrial Waste and Trading. He created in 2012, in France, KD-Recycling, a firm involved in brokerage and trading of recyclable waste and secondary raw materials. Today he is Co-founder and CEO of Africa Global Recycling (AGR), a company specializing in waste management and recycling in Togo.

Edoh Kossi AMENOUNVE

Chairman of WACMIC

Mr. Edoh Kossi AMENOUNVE holds a PhD in Finance from Laval University in Canada which he obtained in 1995. He is the chairman of the West African Capital Markets Integration Council (WACMIC) Since 2015 which is based in Ivory Coast. This appointment at the head of the subregional Institution is the result of his rich professional and entrepreneurial career in the field of finance. He is considered as an ardent architect of the rebirth of this financial center in the zone of the West African Economic and Monetary Union. He also works from September 2003 to September 2012 as the General Secretary of the Regional Capital Markets authority (CREPMF), the financial market regulator of the West African Economic and Monetary Union. During his entrepreneurial career, Mr. AMENOUNVE has created two companies t (SGI-TOGO, 1997) and (OPTI ASSET MANAGEMENT TOGO, 2002)

Florent Youzan

Expert consultant in open innovation

Florent Youzan is the director of the laboratory of innovation based in Dakar Senegal

Obin Guiako

Co Founder and President of Baby Lab

Obin Guiako, is a young actor for the promotion of free software in Cote d'Ivoire. He is the Co-founder and president of FabLab BabyLab in Abidjan, a company that brings different talents and professionals together in order to carry out community projects around digital fabrication.

Rais Kablan

Specialized in Organizations Management Systems/ Neuroergonomics Student

Specialized in Organizational Management System (SMO), Raïs-Ismaël KABLAN has been working since 2011 as a strategy consultant for the implementation and development of companies in several sub-Saharan African countries (West and Central Africa). Since his establishment in Togo, he has been active in the mobile telephony, mobile banking and distribution methods and technologies. Raïs-Ismaël KABLAN also supports the creation and sustainable management of local companies and acts as a consultant for senior executives through approaches such as Neuron-ergonomics and transactional analysis.

Renaud Dossavi

Poet

Born on 20 September 1993, AYI RENAUD DOSSAVI-ALIPOEH is a young Togolese poet who quickly proved himself in the poetic world of Togo.

Sonya Tomegah

Architect, Entrepreneur

Born in Lome 30 years ago, Sonya Tomegah is a passionate entrepreneur. The world of creation is where she best expresses her talent as a junior architect and designer of accessories in wax and African textiles. Discreet, dynamic and open-minded, she is seen as an honest, kind and cheerful professional.