Dave Okech, Founder & CEO, Aquarech Ltd.
Dave Okech is a Food Systems Entrepreneur with over 10 years’ experience in the agribusiness world. He is the founder of Aquarech LTD, associated with development of disruptive innovations in Aquaculture food systems. His outstanding innovation in Aquaculture sector is development of AquaRech Platform, to tackle challenges confronting small and medium scale fish farmers, such as lack of access to: high quality feed, credit, technical assistance and structured fish markets. The innovation connects all actors in the fish value chain (input suppliers, farmers, processors and traders). He has undertaken an intervention in enhancing access to high quality feeds, with high conversion ratio, which has had positive effect in; reducing production period (from 13 to 8), increasing productivity, reducing production costs and increasing profit margins.