Paul Miki Akpablie, a Ghanian and an international student at colorado college, USA, where he is studying Maths and Biochemistry as double major . He is 22 years old and the CEO of Kadi Energy.He started Kadi Energy with a hope that he can create a very viable energy solution, creating energy independence that would allow people to have the luxury of being able to power their lives and create viable businesses.
Paul's inspiration for Kadi Energy was a personal one experience. Here was a young man who grew up in Ghana until he was 17, and then went to high school for two years in Hong Kong. When he was in Ghana, even when he was in middle school, a lot of the time he would have to study with the lights out. It was really difficult for students to study. His grandmother, too, who lives in the more rural part of Ghana, has to give her phone to a driver who drives many miles just to charge it. And so he needed to find a way to address this problem.
Paul has been working on battery technology for four years now. His Company officially started in September 2013. At the beginning it was pretty slow. At that time he was focused on assembling the right team. One of the biggest things Kadi Energy has achieved is getting invited to pitch at Harvard Business School and going to a business summit at Northwestern University. There he met a lot of investors who are interested in putting money into his company. Now he think the company is ready and the market situation is plausible at this point for him to start distributing the company's products.
Ironically, Paul-Miki is not an engineer, but he grew up in engineering camps.
When he was little, organizations would come from the states and other
countries to install solar systems in his villages. He was very young but
those people just took him along and showed him how to install most of
the stuff. When he was 12, he started working on his own and he built a
solar collector for his village, which is currently in use. From there he
started thinking about batteries in general. He destroyed a lot of my
dad’s radios and televisions. His dream is to figure out a battery that
would work best for Africa. He worked in Israel last summer, where he
helped build a solar power computer. He has been constantly working on
projects in the energy sector.Being a student and also a CEO has never been easy for him, but he has figured how to balance.
A true young African...the future of Africa!
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