CEO/FounderChaku Foods
Nikki is a Ghanaian-American entrepreneur innovating at the intersection of food, agriculture & technology. She is the Founder and CEO of Chaku Foods. Based in her home country of Ghana, she is building an AI based platform that maps African farmers land and predicts crop-yields in order to efficiently collect crops post harvest, which alleviates poverty and mitigates against climate change. Prior to founding Chaku, she worked on solving global payment challenges at Visa Inc. across US, Africa, Middle East and Central Europe. Her experiences gave her inspiration and critical skills needed to leverage technology to solve pressing problems facing shareholder farmers back home in Ghana, with plans to scale to thousands more farmers throughout the continent. She received her MBA at Harvard, where Chaku Foods won the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) in 2021. She is a 2023 Mulago Rainer Fellow. She enjoys reading, running, weight-lifting and hiking.