Christian Ngan (born 23 December 1983) is a Cameroonian businessman, public speaker, and author. He is the founder of Adlyn Holdings and the Madlyn Cazalis Group, a Cameroon-based cosmetics company with operations in Central and West Africa.[1]
Ngan began his career as an associate at Findercod, an investment banking firm in Paris.[4]
In July 2012, aged 28, Ngan returned to Cameroon to establish the cosmetics company Madlyn Cazalis.[5]
Ngan has spoken at events on entrepreneurship in Africa. On 23 February 2013, he participated in TEDxAkwa in Douala.[6]
He was elected to the Youth Advisory Board of Brand Africa in South Africa for a three-year term and helped prepare the Africa Youth Prize for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation under the auspices of the African Union Commission.[7]
On 23 December 2023, his 40th birthday, he published a semi-autobiographical book titled 40 principes de l’entrepreneur en Afrique, which discusses his experiences and business principles for operating in Africa.[8][9]
Honors and awards
In September 2014, Ngan was featured in the first edition of The Choiseul 100 Africa: Economic Leaders of Tomorrow, published by Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics.[10] In October, he was listed among the "Top 35 Africans Under 35" by Young People in International Affairs (YPIA) in International Policy Digest.[11]
In August 2015, Espace PME Cameroun named Ngan one of the "three most influential young entrepreneurs in Cameroon".[12] Ngan was featured as one of the "Top 40 African Visionaries" in March 2016 in a Swahili-language newspaper published by Global Publishers in Tanzania.[13] In September 2016, Ngan was named among the "Top 100 African Doers" in Tropics Magazine.[14]
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