Essy KODJO is the founder of Perles & Pagnes, a workshop for artisanal creation and leather goods in Togo. Predestined for a career as a technocrat given her studies at HEC Montreal, she is today one of the leading women entrepreneurs in Togo, just like the famous "Nana Benz." To describe her path, the craftswoman often says she moved "from pension funds to rags."

Rather than following the steps of her politician father, Agbeyome KODJO, she decided to contribute to the structural transformation of the economy through handicraft, notably by investing in women and youth.

Polyglot, humanitarian, entrepreneur, manager, Eric GOULIGNAC is the managing director of the HeidelbergCement Group in Togo. The group is the majority shareholder in the country's leading cement company, CIM-TOGO.

With nearly 25 years of experience in the building materials industry and strong skills in strategy and management of multicultural teams, Eric GOULIGNAC has a Master's in mechanical and ocean engineering from the University of Texas, and an MBA in Business and Administration from the University of Phoenix, US. He joined HeidelbergCement in 1995 as an International Management Trainee for Sweden, Norway, and Tanzania.

Before taking up his position in Togo in 2017, as Regional Director for the Group's Cluster (Togo, Burkina Faso, and Benin), he worked for Lafarge (the world's largest cement group), ItaliCimenti (the Italian cement company), among others. Today, he manages CIMTOGO, SCANTOGO, GRANUTOGO, which together form one of the major consortia of the construction industry in Togo.

Sixteen (16) tons of chocolate produced in 2019, a dozen export destinations outside Africa, a dozen flavors, and derivatives offered onboard aircraft (Asky in particular) and distribution networks. These are the recent figures that would best summarize the boss of ChocoTogo, a cooperative specializing in the processing and marketing of national cocoa. Trained in Italy and Mexico, countries deeply rooted in the chocolate industry, Eric AGBOKOU could be considered as a modern Robin Hood. He is an advocate of fair trade and fair treatment of cocoa farmers. His ambition is to take over the West African organic chocolate market and pass the 10,000-ton annual production mark.

He is the CEO of SOCIPLAST, a plastic production plant located in the free trade zone. This successful entrepreneur also owns EVAME, a company that sells HAOJUE and SANYA motorcycles and spare parts.

In the beginning, he faced fierce competition from other importers of motorcycle brands in the race to take over the Togolese market. However, with time, he imposed himself as the demand for Haojue motorcycles kept increasing.

A sociologist by training, Eléonore Mazalo Katanga has been running the National Agency for Grassroot Development (ANADEB) for several years,

She worked at Inades-Formation, an international NGO that provides support and training in rural areas, mostly. There, she was successively a trainer and a program manager. She left the NGO for the ANADEB's Operations Department and General Management.

Love and passion are her main driving forces towards achievement and success.

A discreet businessman, El Hadj Moumouni BELENGAÏ is the owner of Entreprise de Transport Belengaï (ETRAB), one of the 12 companies operating in the national land transport sector and specialized in serving the Lomé-Kara/Lomé-Cinkassé/Lomé-Ouagadougou line. A member of the executive board of the National Federation of Road Transport Companies of Togo, he is also one of the leading economic actors in the Kara Region.

Managing Director of Togo Invest, the state holding company in charge of steering the development and implementation of strategic investments, Ekue Samuel MIVEDOR is among those who currently embody the new development dynamic driven by Togo through its National Development Plan (PND). He was director of the portfolio management division in the private Sector Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and he has also worked at the BRVM - WAEMU's stock exchange - and Lehman Brothers.

Edem Kokou TENGUE's curricula, both academic and professional, command admiration and respect. After spending several years as the head of Maersk Togo, he was recently appointed minister of maritime Economy, fisheries, and coastal protection. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, the University of Birmingham, the prestigious Imperial College London, and Harvard Business School, he is an expert in the maritime industry. 

Trained from 2003 to 2005 in Copenhagen by the Maersk Group, he became the assistant to the CFO of the group's regional office, which covers all of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). After some years, TENGUE was sent back home to take over the financial management of Maersk's three subsidiaries there: Maersk Togo S.A., Damco Togo S.A., and Lomé Terminal service. At the time, the world's leading shipping company was in the starting-block to take over the handling activities at the Port of Lomé.

Edem TENGUE is an associate member of the CIMA Order of Management Accounting Experts. In 2017, he was one of the 20 Young Leaders of the French African foundation. The next year, Choiseul ranked him among the Young Economic Leaders of Tomorrow, a ranking that includes eminent figures such as French President, Emmanuel Macron.

In December 2019, he was elected President of the Professional Association of Shipping and Ship Consignment Companies in Togo (NAVI-TOGO).

Winner of the International Forum on Youth and Green Jobs (2016), the Green Economy in Africa (2018), and the African Diaspora Award, he recently joined the Local Champion Program of the International Finance Corporation. Edem D'ALMEIDA is a reference when it comes to ecology, green economy, or the environment. After working at Suez Environnement in France for 13 years, the entrepreneur launched Africa Global Recycling (AGR) in Togo. AGR is a waste recycling company that collects waste, processes it, and ships the recycled products, worldwide, to large companies looking for low-cost raw materials. The startup which is in constant growth recorded a turnover of 200 million FCFA in 2019. Its goal now is to make Togo "a center of excellence in waste management."

Edem BESSANH is the head of S.E. NUTRI-TOGO SARL, a startup specialized in the production of nutritional drinks made from medicinal mushrooms. The company is behind the Champiso beverages, sold in Togo and many other West African countries.

One of the flag bearers of Togolese entrepreneurship, the startup was recognized as "Best Small and Medium Entrepreneur of 2017" by the Togolese ministry of grassroots development. Its CEO eyes an annual turnover of 100 million FCFA; and new markets such as Canada and Egypt which he plans to reach through franchising.