Meet Serial Entrepreneur, Founder Of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd, Currently The Leading Waste Management Company In Ghana

Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong can best be described as a Serial Entrepreneur with a penchant for identifying business opportunities across various industries.

He presently the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies and owns over 60 companies with operations in over 14 sectors of the economy, clustered into Environment & Sanitation, Financial Services, ICT, Technical & Logistics and Commercial and Allied Services.

In 2006 he revolutionized Waste management in Ghana with the introduction of Zoomlion Ghana Ltd. which currently is the leading waste management company in Ghana and West Africa, thus providing waste management solutions in Ghana and in five other African Countries.

According to Dr. Agyepong , before the idea for waste management came to him, he was operating a printing business that was not giving him the returns he required.

He travelled to China after an encounter with the Lord and saw that tricycles were used to collect refuse and he was inspired to buy one to start his waste management business with.

After using the tricycle for sometime, he raised money to buy three more and that begun the success story of Zoomlion Ghana Limited. His innovative method of waste management has helped keep Ghana clean.

For his immense contribution to capacity building in Waste and Environmental Sanitation, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) conferred on him a doctorate degree.

His sterling leadership and contribution to national and continental development have been duly recognized over the years by governments and other institutions.

He has won several awards including Lifetime African Achievement Prize in Sustainable Development in Africa, African Achievers Awards in Business Innovation; Order of the Star of Volta-the highest award of the nation Ghana.

Source:Charles Ayitey|
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