Profile: Kwabena Smith – Founder and Executive Chairman Orun Energy

Kwabena Smith – Founder and Executive Chairman Orun Energy. PHOTO/Orun Energy

Nigeria’s Kwabena Smith is the founder and executive chairman of Orun Energy – a global energy services company commited to reducing the carbon footprint and emissions from cellular base station sites.

Kwabena Smith started Orun Energy in 2004, because he believed that mobile/ cellular operators in emerging markets in both Africa and Asia would be challenged by the issue of operational costs as they had in other large emerging markets like India.

At present Smith has grown Orun Energy into a consortium of eight (8) companies that are spread out in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Kenya), Asia (India) and Australia.

Orun Energy is now in commercial negotiations with major cellular operators, both India and Africa. They are also talking to an Australian operator where they will do an on-grid test in order to save the operator the energy costs of powering from the grid.

Kwabena Smith, a serial entrepreneur is an alumnus of the University of Lagos, where he earned a Bachelors in French and History.

More information about Kwabena Smith and Orun Energy can be found here…