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Founder and Chairman

Francis Opoku-Mensah

Francis is a development banking and agricultural value chain financing specialist with over sixteen (16) years’ development financing and banking work experience ranging from entrepreneurship training and development, institutional development, credit appraisal, financial modeling, agricultural value chain financing, farmer-based organization and development, business diagnostic & advisory, credit product development and loan structuring. Francis has extensive experience in agribusiness value chain financing, facilitating training programs for SMEs as well as managing external party funds for both debt and grant extension to third party clients in pro-poor communities and livelihood development projects for organizations such as Missio Invest, USAID, DFID, KfW, Root Capital, MasterCard Foundation, Italian Line of Credit and AfD. At present, Francis is Missio Invest Country Investment Manager and formally served as the chief point of contact for the USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) agriculture sector loan guarantee currently managed by Root Capital. Francis leads the consulting advising team from Enterprise Impacts Growth providing investment advisory services to Missio Invest in Ghana and many other partners including Deloitte. Francis is professional chartered banker and holds an MBA from the American College in Cyprus.

Experience & Activities

Professional Skills
  • Development Banking
  • Entrepreneurship Development Expert
  • Debt and Grant Fund Management
  • Agribusiness Value Chain Specialist
  • Market Development and Studies
  • Feasibility Study
  • Institutional Development Expert
  • Donor Program Management
Activities

Francis previously worked as Training Manager for EMPRETEC Ghana Foundation, Team leader for Agribusiness and Construction Unit at the National Investment Bank and Enterprise Finance Manager at TechnoServe Ghana.

Summary of present and past positions and Role:

  • Country Investment Manager, Ghana – For Missio Invest Corp with headquarters in New York, USA – Missio Invest combines faith with financing to support developmental projects in sectors such as Health, Agriculture and Education in developing countries particularly Africa.
  • Founder/Chairman – Enterprise Impacts Growth (EIG) – A consulting firm with focus on general consulting, debt and grant fund managers serving as a key partner to Deloitte Ghana and other international organizations in Ghana and Africa
  • Project Manager for the Fund Manager – for the $40.06 Million Liberia Agriculture Commercialization Fund (LACF)
  • Former Chief Point of Contact for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Development Credit Authority (DCA) for agriculture sector loan guarantee currently managed by Root Capital.
  • Former In-country Representative/ Portfolio Manager for Anglophone West African Countries at Root Capital Inc, an Impact and development finance institution with headquarters in Massachusetts, USA

Board Membership – Liberia Agriculture Commercialization Fund (Liberia), Tema Women`s Hospital, Ghana Innovation Hub AND Agribusiness Investments Consult

Committees – Member, Root Capital Africa Regional Management Team and other social and religious institutions

Summary of Agencies, Donors and Institutions with Consulting Experience in Africa

Francis has extensive  past and present consulting experience with major donor funded projects in the areas of development banking, investments financing, entrepreneurship training and development for SMEs, agricultural value chain development and financing,  business planning and financial modelling, feasibility and market access studies etc in Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, and other African countries for institutions such  as Deloitte Ghana, the World Bank (WB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), TechnoServe, Invest in Africa, Department for International Development (DFID), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), World Food Program, African Development Bank (AfDB), IFC, ILO, KOSMOS Energy, ENI-Ghana Gas Project, Kosmos Energy Business Incubation Program, Izwe Savings and loans PLC, and other government agencies such as the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ministry of Fisheries  and more.