Nwachinemere Emeka is a goal-driven, innovation, and technology enthusiast, passionate about transforming Africa's food system. He is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he studied Mechanical Engineering.

Aside from receiving specialized training in Business and Entrepreneurship from the Enterprise Development Center, Pan African University, Lagos, Nwachinemere also studied Financial Innovation for Economic Development at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.

He has won multiple National and International Awards for his work supporting smallholder farmers, including the Nigerian Innovation Awards 2016, Total Startupper Award for Innovation, 2016, World Bank Ideas for Action Competition Winner 2017, Africa Prize for Innovation 2018 Shortlist of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the United Nations STI Award for Innovation 2020, FoodTech 500 Awards 2021, and the Meaningful Business 100 Award 2022.

The multi-award-winning serial entrepreneur has a dream that one day, extreme poverty and hunger will be eradicated from Africa and the world, and he is helping create that future through Kitovu Technology Company, a start-up that builds climate-smart farming and post-harvest infrastructure for African agriculture. He is a writer and public speaker with an interest in
governance and advocacy.