Managing Director, since 2012, of the Youth Economic Initiatives Support Fund (Faiej), Sahouda Céline GBADAMASSI-MIVEDOR stands as a vector of the resolve of the Togolese authorities to support the country's youth. Determined and dynamic, the MD is also renowned for being close to young entrepreneurs. Throughout her seven years at the FAIEJ, nearly 9,000 jobs were created, 2,500 young entrepreneurs supported, and around 4 billion FCFA in loans were provided. Her most cherished ambition is to foster the emergence of a young class of seasoned entrepreneurs who will create solid, sustainable jobs.

Over the years, Prosper Gato Koumako Amegnido has acquired quite a reputation, in and outside Togo. The businessman mainly did through his firm, GATO Shipping, and Logistics group, which he heads as CEO. He launched this company in 1990 after getting strong experience in line management, shipping, logistics, and other related fields.

GATO Shipping and Logistics operates in the Maritime Agency, sea and air transport, logistics solutions, bulk and cargo, agriculture, P&I correspondents, and has two hubs, one in Lomé (Togo) and another in Bordeaux (France). It covers several countries and has agencies in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, and Togo.

A general engineer with a specialization in civil engineering, he holds a master's degree in entrepreneurship and project management. Pierre-Etienne LATOUR is the Managing Director of SOGEA-SATOM Togo, a subsidiary of the VINCI Construction Group. Before moving to Lomé, he worked in Gabon, Madagascar, and other African countries.

Anthony Comlan MAWOUENA, commonly known as Peter ANTHONY, is a passionate fashion designer. After a long stay in France, he decided to return to Togo to start his entrepreneurial career. The businessman represents the famous Zara brand in Togo and runs Empreinte by Zara, a boutique located on one of the main arteries of Lomé. He dressed many celebrities including Carla Bruni, wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Besides fashion, the entrepreneur is also known for his philanthropic work.

Pawou Batana is a key figure in the Telecom industry in Togo. A brilliant student, he received the Phi Kappa Phi award which is awarded to the best students in the US. In 1991, Pawou Batana started working at Togo Telecom where he stayed over a long period before slowly starting his own business in 2003.

In 2006, the DePaul University graduate quit Togo Telecom to fully focus on his company, IPNET EXPERTS SA, an IT solutions provider which also includes a computer engineering training centre. In 2018, this center became an IT university. BATANA is well known in the region when it comes to IT projects.

A journalist and fact-checker, he holds a master's in web journalism from Ecole supérieure de Paris. Noel Kokou TADEGNON is well known in the Togolese media sphere. The Nukafu kid started in radio but ended up focusing on web journalism.

He launched one of the first online media in Togo, Médiatogo, and won in 2008 the Highway Africa Digital Journalism Award.

Co-founder of TogoCheck (a fact-checking platform), he collaborates actively with many international media, such as Reuters, Inter Press Service, Wren Media, and Deutsch Welle. Noel Kokou Tadégnon is the promoter of Vox America in Togo.

This Togolese-American social entrepreneur is the CEO of Alaffia. The latter, well-known in the sector of fair trade (shea butter, coconut oil, etc...), has an estimated turnover of $50 million. It promotes the economic empowerment of women in Africa and Togo particularly.

In 2018, Alaffia and its owner received an Award for Corporate Excellence from the US State Secretary, under the "Women's economic empowerment" category.

The same year, Olowo-N’djo joined the consultative committee on African trade (for 4 years), an entity that provides counseling on trade and development policies related to sub-Saharan African countries, notably regarding the AGOA.

Director general of the Development Education Agency (AED) since 2018, Dammipi Noupokou is closely related to the energy sector in Togo. A former managing director of the country's power utility, the Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo (CEET), and former minister of mines, energy, and water, he has also headed the ministry of transport.

Now, he is an Advisor to the President of the Republic.

Norman Bayi Flore is at the head of Mawugno. Discreet yet strong in character, she imposed herself in a very competitive rice importing sector. Her company sells rice mostly but other food products as well.

Greatly attached to her country, she strongly believes that Togo has a lot of potential and resources which the youth should exploit to fully contribute to national development.

In a few years only, the former minister of agriculture of Togo, Noël Koutera Bataka, distinguished himself as one of the main actors of agricultural reform in the country. With a bachelor's in agriculture, a master's in public affairs, and another degree in public administration, he truly revealed his capacities by advancing the implementation of the risk-sharing based incentive mechanism for agriculture financing (MIFA).

As minister of agriculture, revolutionizing the Togolese agriculture was one of his main goals, one he pursued by connecting the various actors engaged in the sector (banks and farmers) and successfully carrying out agricultural processing projects.

Among other accomplishments, he coordinated the PNIASA and the Global Alliance for Resilience in the Sahel and West Africa (AGIR).