Jerry Oche is the Founder & CEO of Zowasel, an agrifinance company transforming Africa’s agribusiness supply chains through transparency, sustainability, and farmer-centered technology. Zowasel connects cooperatives directly to national, regional, and global processors, manufacturers, and trade houses, enabling fair pricing, fast settlements through alternative finance, and quality compliance tools.

Passionate about building resilient value chains, under Jerry’s leadership, Zowasel has received strategic support from NIRSAL and IFC to scale alternative finance. They have also expanded into East Africa, and pioneered the Crop Pilot MRV – a digital measurement, reporting, and verification system that helps transition agriculture from a carbon source to a carbon sink.