(Togo First) - A former auditor at Deloitte, a private equity specialist with more than 20 years of experience, Vissého GNASSOUMOU worked at Cauris before co-founding with another Togolese, Marc Savi de Tové, their private equity firm Adiwale Partners (2016).

They finance SMEs in French-speaking West Africa to foster economic growth in the region. Supported by partners such as the African Development Bank (ADB), Adiwale Partners, which has already secured more than €50 million in funding, wants to support and transform small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the sub-region.