He is a technology entrepreneur specializing in educational technology solutions. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his innovative work.
Cecil Senna Nutakor (photo) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur leveraging technology to improve lives. He is the founder and CEO of eCampus, an edtech startup focused on making education more accessible, flexible, and affordable.
Founded in 2015, eCampus offers a digital learning platform tailored for a wide range of users—from primary school students to professionals seeking vocational training or higher education. The platform provides tools to evaluate, analyze, and predict users’ readiness for exams, employment, or compliance processes.
For students, eCampus facilitates goal-setting, preliminary testing, progress tracking, and self-paced learning. Teachers can share knowledge, mentor learners across Africa, and earn additional income while inspiring and educating. Businesses also benefit, using eCampus to train employees, monitor performance, and identify strengths to enhance growth and productivity.
Before launching eCampus, Nutakor founded Equinox Intercom Ltd in 2006, a Ghanaian application services provider where he serves as CEO. He began his career as a systems administrator at Regent University College of Science & Technology in 2005. He later worked as an IT consultant for the Ghana Ports Authority (2006), a project manager at Ghana Commercial Bank (2010), and held the same role at luxury real estate firm Devtraco Plus Ltd (2013–2015). In 2019, he collaborated with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) as an edtech consultant.
Nutakor holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Regent University College of Science & Technology (2007). He earned a master’s degree in international business and sustainable development from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy (2014). Additionally, he completed a program in exponential technologies at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University in California.
He won the Startup of the Year in Education award at the Ghana Startup Awards in both 2016 and 2021, as well as the overall Startup of the Year award in 2021.
By Melchior Koba
Editing by Sèna D. B. de Sodji
