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Kola Masha
Managing Director
Babban Gona
Private Sector & Development author
Kola Masha is the Managing Director of Babban Gona and holds the same position at Doreo Partners, an agriculture focused African impact investing firm. Prior to founding Doreo and Babban Gona, Kola was the Managing Director and CEO of a major subsidiary in the Notore Group, one of Nigeria’s leading agricultural conglomerates. Kola brings significant leadership experience in VC, corporate finance, business development, marketing and operations, across four continents with multiple global companies, including GE and Abiomed. Kola holds an MBA from Harvard and Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.
Babban Gona
Babban Gona is an investor-owned social enterprise serving small networks of smallholder farmers with a model created specifically to attract the youth. The members receive development and training, credit, agricultural inputs, marketing support, and other key services. Besides increasing each farmer’s yield and income to 2.3 times the national average, the Babban Gona franchise demonstrates a viable model for investment in the smallholder segment, and attracts new capital to the sector.