Mr. Edmund Poku is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Niche Cocoa Industry in Ghana. Niche Cocoa produces high-quality cocoa liquor, cocoa butter and cocoa powder for export. The company has won the award of “Ghana Exporter of The Year” for three Consecutive Years (2013, 2014 and 2015) given its high commitment to the value addition of cocoa.Prior to the company’s start-up, he served as manager of Strategic Business Development at Home Depot and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 2002 and a masters in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College in 2000. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Poku worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and earned an Industrial Engineering degree from Columbia University and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Bowdoin College. He is passionate about industrial and economic development in Africa.