He is dedicated to dynamizing agriculture for smallholder farmers. After years of ^professional experience with agribusinesses, he co-founded a startup that offers financing and technical support to farmers.

Benjamin Njenga (photo) is a Kenyan entrepreneur who holds a Masters in Finance and a bachelor's in agribusiness and management. He is one of the co-founders and chief customer officer of Apollo Agriculture, an agritech that offers financing and counseling to smallholder farmers.

The agritech, founded in 2016, streamlines access to finance for unbanked farmers and even helps reduce the costs for them, therefore facilitating productive and profitable operations for the farmers.

As Apollo Agriculture's Chief Customer Officer, Benjamin Njenga leads most aspects of the start-up's operations, from customer acquisition, logistics, and delivery to repayment collection, tracking, and evaluation. He oversees more than 25 employees, spread across the corporate team, call center, agri-retail partners, and field agents. In March 2022, his startup raised US$40 million in Series B financing to finance more smallholder farmers across Africa.

Benjamin describes himself as a visionary leader. His professional career started in 2008 when he joined telecom operator Safaricom as a customer support. From 2011 to June 2013, he worked as a monitoring and evaluation specialist for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. Upon leaving that foundation, he joined the agricultural insurance company ACRE Africa where he worked until the creation of his agritech startup Appolo Agriculture. With the Aagritech startup, he successively held the positions of business analysis manager, deputy general manager, and chief customer officer.

Melchior Koba