Pompigne-Mognard to select ‘Africa’s Business Heroes’ top finalists

The Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative has chosen APO Group Founder and Chairman, Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, as a semi-final judge for this year’s prestigious competition “Africa’s Business Heroes”.

The ANPI organises Africa’s Business Heroes, now in its second year, a grassroots competition looking to spotlight and give a platform to entrepreneurs all over Africa, to showcase their business ideas and inspire others to do so.

The Jack Ma Foundation is committed to fostering African entrepreneurship and has brought in some of the continent’s most esteemed businesspeople and investors to help in the search for ‘Africa’s Business Heroes.’

Pompigne-Mognard will be part of a select seven-judge panel who will interview candidates from a semi-final shortlist of 20 entrepreneurs based all over Africa.

In earlier qualification rounds, more than 150 prominent African business leaders acted as initial judges to whittle down more than 20,000 applicants to the final 50.

In the online semi-final, to be held on August 28 and 29th 2020, Pompigne-Mognard will help to identify the 10 finalists who will go forward to compete in a ‘pitch finale.’

Pompigne-Mognard has spent over a decade at the forefront of African business. In 2007, he founded APO Group and has seen it grow into a leading pan-African communications and business consultancy, providing strategic advice to multinational organisations in diverse industries.

Now, in his role as the chairman of APO, Pompigne-Mognard has committed to supporting the next generation of African entrepreneurs.

In 2019, he embarked on a series of conferences in some of Africa’s most prominent universities. He spoke about entrepreneurship, business and journalism to students in Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Ethiopia, and South Africa.

“Jack Ma is at the very pinnacle of global entrepreneurship, so it is an honour to have been asked to judge this year’s semi-final of the ANPI competition,” said Pompigne-Mognard.

“It is fantastic to see the Jack Ma Foundation investing so much energy into African entrepreneurship, and I am delighted to see such a high level of talent from this year’s applicants as we get ready to crown the next African Business Heroes.”

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