Okey Esse

Okey Esse is a self-taught serial entrepreneur that builds unrefined ideas from Strategies to Sustainability. He founded five successful companies, created two proprietary products, holds one patent and franchise of two other products and has established himself as a valuable resource in fundraising activities. To date, Okey has raised over US$50 million for 101+ SMEs. On the humanitarian side, Okey is the President and Co-founder of Passionate Care Foundation, an NGO that focuses on nutrition and food security, gender equality, HIV/AIDS advocacy and free primary healthcare services. Passionate Care Foundation is working with Vitamin Angels California USA to give free Vitamin A, Deworming Tablets and Multivitamin drugs to 0-69months children, pregnant and nursing mothers. Over 100+ women owned micro-enterprises have received US$500 each business support financing from Passionate Care Foundation. Okey Esse and his companies have won several awards and recognition including 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow, YouWiN Grants, World Bank BIG Accelerator Grants, Nollywood/FMF Distribution Innovation Funds Grants, D-Prize, Cisco, TEF-GIZ, UN Foundation, DEMO Africa, Engie Energy AFRICAN STARTUP OF THE YEAR 2018 AWARD, King Hamad Award 2019, 2018 Champions of Science, Africa Story Challenge, etc. He is a graduate of Physics Electronics from University of Jos, Plateau State, an Alumina of Westerwelle Foundation Programme, Berlin Germany (WYPF Spring 2019), Forbes8 Accelerator (Nigeria) 2020 and a Graduate of Entrepreneurship from Enterprise Development Center of Pan-African University.