Unreasonable Fellows

Daniel Asare-Kyei, PhD.

Chief Executive Officer at Esoko

Daniel is an Unreasonable Fellow. Daniel has participated in 2 programs, including Unreasonable GOALS 2024.
Daniel is an agricultural economist, technologist, geo-information scientist and entrepreneur. His passion is to bridge the gap between the realities of people living in last mile communities and technological innovations. He has spent the last 20 years working with partners in many technological driven initiatives. As CEO and shareholder of ESOKO, he has led one of Africa’s largest Agritech providers to navigate through a maze of digital products and developed several innovations for the African digital ecosystem. As a serial entrepreneur, he has founded two other agribusinesses, Adinkra Frontiers and Eucharia Farms. Daniel has just founded two other start-ups, SikaFields a 41R enterprise that seeks to integrate thousands of Africa’s smallholder farmers into the global Carbon Credit market and OpenTrade, a revolutionary platform that combines the powers of traditional e-commerce and affiliate marketing to create wealth for Africa’s urban populations.
Daniel is a fellow of the United Nations University and the Unreasonable Group, a recipient of 2020 Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship of the Year Award . He has a doctorate degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, a double master’s degree in Geo-information Science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a first-class bachelors in Agricultural Economics from Ghana’s KNUST.