Benjamin Bice Asiedu

• Designed and launched a digital sourcing infrastructure that digitizes community-based aggregators and enables traceable agricultural trade between smallholder farmers and formal commodity buyers.
• Scaled platform to over $500K in trade value within six months, onboarding rural aggregators and connecting them to national and cross-border markets.
• Secured over $150K in catalytic support from partners including GSMA, the World Food Program, and impact investors to expand access to working capital, storage, and traceability infrastructure.
• Led integration with local Financial Institutions, unlocking inclusive, collateral-managed financing along the supply chain.
• Built a platform serving over 40,000 female smallholder farmers, enhancing income opportunities, financial inclusion, and access to premium buyers through verified sourcing channels.

• Worked closely with board of advisors to strategically affect operational direction.
• Led company to become a Top 10 Finalist in prestigious Pan-African Digital Innovation Competition, showcasing technological solutions for agricultural challenges
  Successfully secured multiple grants through compelling proposals and presentations, demonstrating the viability and impact of agricultural innovation.
• Negotiated new annual contracts and service agreements with vendors to achieve prime pricing.
• Fostered work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover.

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• Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
• Aligned organizational objectives with company mission, increasing revenue, profit and business growth by collaboratively developing integrated strategies.
• Directed a team of 3 professionals to improve mechanized harvesting and processing initiatives for local rice farmers.

• Delivered interventions in the form of farm inputs and updated agronomic practices to over 20,000 cocoa farmers.
• Compiled field data to mark milestones on interventions for monthly reports and monitoring and evaluation reports.
• Evaluated data to check effectiveness of interventions to cocoa farmers.