She has over 10 years of experience in e-commerce, banking and finance, marketing, and branding in Africa, Asia, and the US. She founded a company that uses AI to help businesses effectively manage their inventory. 

Marie-Reine Seshie (photo) is a Ghanaian economist who graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, earning a bachelor of arts in economics. In 2019, she graduated from the Asia School of Business with a master's degree in management and business administration. 

She is widely known as the CEO and co-founder of Kola Market, a startup that supports businesses in their sales and marketing activities by leveraging artificial intelligence. 

Kola Market, founded in 2021, describes itself as a result-as-a-service company that offers innovative artificial intelligence-powered inventory management, marketing, and sales solutions. Its smart inventory forecasting and management system uses sales data from companies' stores, as well as other external indicators such as inflation, fuel prices, weather, etc., to generate perfect reorder levels daily, so companies can focus on selling and maximizing profits. On March 8, 2023, It was named on the list of the 15 startups that will take part in the inaugural class of Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders. 

Its CEO is, since 2021, the social media marketing manager of ASB African & Caribbean Foundation, an association created by Asia School of Business students and alumni to uplift “the marginalized.” Her professional career began in 2012, at  UBA Group where she was an accounts operations executive.  In 2013, she joined First Atlantic Bank Ghana as a management trainee in the business development department. The following year, she continued her traineeship as an executive trainee in the business development and corporate finance departments. Then, in 2016, she was appointed assistant banking assistant.

In May 2019, she was hired by the e-commerce company, Jumia Group, as a project manager before being promoted to marketing manager the same year. In September 2020, she became the marketing manager of The/Studio, an e-commerce company based in California.

Ms. Marie-Reine is one of 22 finalists for the prestigious Aurora Tech Award 2023, which celebrates the female founders whose projects have greatly impacted global development. 

Melchior Koba