Patrick E. Ngowi

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Patrick Epaphra Ngowi
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Born
Tanzania
Nationality Tanzanian
OccupationRenewable Energy Entrepreneur
AwardsUnited Nations SDG 7 Pioneer 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 New York, USA.

2016 100 Most Influential Young Africans, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Contents

East Africa Young Business Leader of the Year Award 2014 (AABLA) [1] Nairobi, Kenya.

Top 100 Young Economic Leaders 2014 - Choiseul Institute, Paris, France. [2] [3]

Top 100 Most Influential Africans 2013-2014 [4] Lagos, Nigeria.

Patrick Epaphra Ngowi is a Tanzanian entrepreneur, businessperson, environmentalist, Al Gore's climate change reality leader and United Nation's SDG 7 Pioneer. Patrick has founded and led several businesses over the course of his career. [5]

Career

Ngowi started his first business at age 15 when he started selling top-up vouchers for mobile phones in high school. [6] After graduating, Ngowi travelled between China and Tanzania and brought back trendy and cheap phones, and began buying inexpensive phones from low-cost manufacturers and selling them in the Tanzanian market. [6] He enrolled at Denzhou University in China, studying renewable energy. [6]

Patrick Ngowi founded Helvetic Solar in 2007 to provide and install solar equipment in Tanzania and the United States. [7] The company was awarded KPMG's No. 1 of the Top 100 Mid Sized Companies in Tanzania Award in 2012. [6] The firm has since evolved into a diversified business group, of which he Chairs. [8]

Recognition

Forbes included Ngowi in its list of 30 under 30 Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs [9] and Forbes list of Young African Millionaires to Watch in 2013. [10] He was again listed in the 2014 list of Africa's Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs through Helvetic Group. [11] He was also named as East Africa's Young Business Leader of the Year 2014 by Forbes and CNBC. [12]

Ngowi has had multiple speaking roles at international events [13] [14] [15] [16] and in 2015 was elected as Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact in Tanzania. [17] A year later, it was announced by the United Nations Secretary General that Ngowi was one of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) Global 10 Pioneers, being a pioneer in providing access to clean energy, SDG 7. [18]

Philanthropy

Ngowi is the founder of the Light for Life Foundation, a non-profit social enterprise of which focuses on providing free solar and small wind power systems for youth and women in rural and off-grid parts of Tanzania. [19]

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