Daniel Asare-Kyei
CEO
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ESOKO
Daniel is an agricultural economist, technologist, geoinformation scientist and entrepreneur. His passion is to bridge the gap between the realities of people living in last mile communities and technological innovations. He has spent the last 20 years working with partners in many Agritech initiatives for smallholder farmers. As CEO and shareholder of ESOKO, he has led one of Africa's largest Agritech providers to navigate through a maze of digital products. As a serial entrepreneur, he has founded two other agribusinesses, Adinkra Frontiers and Eucharia Farms Ltd. Daniel has also founded two other start-ups, SikaFields Technologies, a fourth industrial revolution enterprise that seeks to integrate thousands of Africa's smallholder farmers into the global Carbon Credit. Daniel is a fellow of the United Nations University and the Unreasonable Group, a recipient of 2020 Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship of the Year Award. He has a doctorate degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, a double master's degree in Geo-information Science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a first-class bachelors in Agricultural Economics from Ghana's KNUST.