With over 17 years of tech and consulting experience, he helps consumer goods manufacturers easily sell their products. 

Onyekachi Izukanne (photo) is the CEO and co-founder of TradeDepot, a digital platform that connects small African retailers with global consumer goods producers.

His platform, founded in August 2016, offers several services. First, it offers real-time data-driven trade intelligence to get a “product in the right retail stores at the right time.”

It also handles inventory, shipping, returns, and customer service for suppliers through its distribution centers across Africa. In addition, it provides microcredit to retailers to enable them to purchase more products and grow their businesses. 

“Our focus is distribution, which is a very feasible problem because to purchase whatever item we need, distribution is necessary in getting it from the maker to us. Whether it is a shirt, food, or digital item, there needs to be distribution,” Onyekachi Izukanne told Nairametrics in 2022.

With TradeDepot's B2B platform, retailers can order from wholesalers 24/7 without encountering out-of-stock issues. By 2020, TradeDepot already had more than 200 employees and about 40,000 micro retailers using its platform to source basic household products from manufacturers such as Unilever, Nestlé, Danone, and Kellogg's.

Before TradeDepot, Onyekachi Izukanne co-founded C2G Consulting, a consulting and B2B integration firm. He served the firm as a managing partner between 2004 and 2017. Since 2018, he is its non-executive director.

His professional career began in 2013, as a consultant at Mobilizr LLC, a company that connects brands with a large community of social media users who act as their brand ambassadors.

Melchior Koba