Mr. Dunwell Eku

Dunwell is currently the Chief Executive officer of the organization, appointed in August 2021. He was engaged as a staff of Empretec Ghana 1993 serving in various capacities until his exit in 2003, as the Deputy Director in charge Empretec's Training Division. He is an MSMEs Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development expert with over 20 years of experience in areas such as Entrepreneurship training and promotion, Small Enterprise Development, Business Development Services, Value Chains development, Enterprise Clusters, Business Incubation and Fund Management.

He is currently a Certified International Master Trainer (CIMT) of the UNCTAD’s Global EMPRETEC Programme. His 6 years with the National Board for Small Scale Industries as a Regional Manager and head of its first Business Advisory Centre in Cape Coast. He joined EMPRETEC Ghana, then as a UNDP Programme in 1993, as a Regional Coordinator, later took up a position as a Senior Business Advisor at the head office of EMPRETEC, subsequently becoming the Deputy Director and head of EMPRETEC Ghana's training department. He benefitted from a Work Study programme sponsored by the then UK Overseas Development Agency (now DFID) that enabled him work with trainers and consultants of UK's Project on North East and the Totenham Business Development Agency.

As the Deputy Director of EMPRETEC Ghana, he led the design, installation and management of entrepreneurship training and business development services and led the installation of the global EMPRETEC ETW programmes in Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa and Guyana. Dunwell also provided the leadership for various training and consulting assignments in Botswana, Ethiopia, Guyana, Nigeria, Namibia, Mauritius, South Africa, Sierra Leone, The United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe.