A renowned chartered accountant, Ignace CLOMEGAH is part of the very select team of advisors to the Togolese President, Faure Gnassingbé, who counsels him on financial matters. After spending 25 years as chief of operations of US group ARTHUR-ANDERSEN in West and Central Africa, he left the audit and tax services provider to take over the Togolese subsidiary of audit firm Deloitte. The latter provides audit services to businesses in the WAEMU and CEMAC financial markets.

This veteran of the accounting world is also a well-known director on the boards of large public, private or parapublic structures, such as SNPT (Société Nouvelle des Phosphates du Togo) and Ecobank.

Ignace CLOMEGAH is a Freemason.

Until September 2020,  Mawuli Clément AHIALEY was the president of Togo’s large enterprises association (AGET), an entity regrouping more than 52 active large businesses that account for nearly 20% of the Togolese GDP.

With almost 30 years of experience in the materials industry, he has been heading Wacem-Fortia for a decade. In addition to this company, he is also the boss of Amexfield Togo Steel (ATS), TogoRail Mae Clay, among others.

A graduate of the Havard Kennedy School of Government, CINA LAWSON began her career at the World Bank (Washington, D.C) and later moved to Orange Group and Alcatel-Lucent in (New York and Paris respectively France Telecom). In 2012, she was ranked by Forbes among the 20 most powerful young women in Africa. She had joined the government two years prior as minister of posts, digital economy, and technological innovation. She has been occupying the position since then - a record.

While her ministry was not much significant when she took over, today it plays a major role in the digitalisation of the Togolese economy and administration.

Charles GAFFAN is the managing director of Togo Terminal, one of the subsidiaries of Bolloré Africa Logistics,  and the president of the Maritime Cluster of Francophone Africa (CMAF). He heads the European Chamber of Commerce in Togo (CCET), a collaborative platform established in 2019 to structure trade between Togo and Europe.

Charles GAFFAN also relaunched the Association of Commissionaires Agréés en Douanes (ACAD) composed of a dozen companies that handle transport, logistics, and customs formalities for third parties. He was once an accountant at CIMTOGO.

Founder of the African Institute of Administration and Commercial Studies (IAEC), Bassabi Kagbara is the father of the BK-University Group whose training institutes are established in some twenty French-speaking African countries.

Engaged in politics, he ran for the presidency in the 2010 presidential elections, under the banner of his party the PDP.

Trained as a microbial biotechnologist, Urbain Amoussou quickly turned to entrepreneurship and writing after returning from Fez where he studied. 

From works of the mind to entrepreneurship, the young Togolese has several strings to his bow and seems to be well established in the Togolese incubation sphere. 

The main project he is associated with is CUBE, an incubator he founded in 2016 to support young entrepreneurs' innovative projects and help African startups define and structure their business plan and raise funds. The primary vocation of CUBE, according to Amoussou, is to share the experiences of young entrepreneurs. 

The Alumnus of the US International Visitor Leadership Program wants to leverage biotechnological sciences to develop a new source of energy on the continent. Congruent with this vision, he launched BioTri, a startup that produces biopesticide using microorganisms.

Urbain Amoussou is also the founder of AGAU Edition, a digital platform for sharing articles, promoting writing, publishing, and revealing literary talent in Africa. 

In 2019, he was recruited as chargé d'affaires at NunyaLab, a new incubator launched by the government and the UNDP.

Specialized in business law and international trade, Ayélé LOCOH-DONOU has been a business lawyer over a long period and was also an advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank in Africa. However, her passion for entrepreneurship eventually took over, making her give up big offices for fashion show sets, launching Ayélé Design, a company that makes high-end bags. Beyond her business, the lawyer-entrepreneur wants to contribute to the local economy by supporting business projects in Togo.

Auguste Yao DOGBO is the boss of the Navitrans Group, a service company founded in 1979 and specialized in various domains such as shipping agency, logistics transport, shipping, or transit and customs. He also chaired for several years the Professional Association of Shipping Companies and Ship Consignments in Togo (NAVI -TOGO). Also, much involved in sports, Auguste DOGBO was the president of the Togolese National Olympic Committee, a member of the executive board of the African handball confederation, and the Togolese federation of sliding sports.

Atta-Kakra Essien is the commissioner of customs and indirect taxes, since February 2019. Before assuming this position, he headed the regional customs operations at the Togolese Revenue Office (OTR). In September 2020, he was appointed tax commissioner in the place of Adoyi Essowavana.

Alexandre COHEN is the head of Canal + Togo, a subsidiary of the Vivendi group. Before joining the Canal + Group, he worked for several multinationals, including Ford Motor Company. Under his leadership, Canal + has become one of the best Internet service providers in Togo.