eGro Partners
eGro partners are the early co-founders who invested their valuable time in eGro and stays with the startup. They all have a small equity percentage in the company, and are driven by the vision and mission of eGro.
You can read more about their affiliation below.
Jacob Vahr
Full-time dedication
Jacob started his life early on living on passion. Initially by making a living from his childhood sport as an elite golfer, turning golf bum and later master greenkeeper deep inside the green sector industry. Here his understanding of soil, water movement and landscaping started to take form. After an inspirational journey in 2008 to the Gambian bush in West Africa, Jacob’s interest for plants initiated the first ideas around the company eGro. A new entrepreneurial direction for business development and management created eGro’s sustainable model. Building eGro since 2008 has lead to the daily pursuit of the mission to stabilize Earth’s climate.
Founder and CEO
Autodidact and Polytechnical
Ghazal Torabi Kristensen
Collaborating online sporadically/ one day in office every second week
Ghazal is one of the few people, who knows exactly what happened within the first 6 seconds of the Big Bang. As a structured scientist, mathematician and physicist, she has been eGro’s project manager from the very start, keeping eGro’s diligence on a tight track.
Project Manager
Msc Physics and Astronomy/Wind Energy
Diana Salkauskiene
Advisory on ecology when needed
Diana is used to thinking in holistic systems connected in several ways. She has the ability to understand the complexity of the connections in the ecosystem and the interdependencies of its individual components, in a structured and effortless way. Diana works with the development of the agricultural aspects of eGro’s model by exporting plans to the Ghanaian team. She adapts these plans according to the specific villages and the farmers’ needs.
Agronomic Officer
BA Ecology MA agriculture
Freja Poulsen
Available on call
Freja has a Bachelor in Intercultural Marked Communication and a MSc in Economics and Business Administration. During her Master, she specialized in Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Communication. Her specialities include internal/external communication, management and perspectives on how enterprises handle increasing expectations, responsibility and communication with stakeholders. Freja has a global and local understanding and is passionate about sustainable development, food security, women empowerment, human rights and well-being. Within these fields, she wrote her Master thesis on eGro. Freja has worked with Jacob since 2013 and her tasks at eGro have included shaping the internal communication, creating structures for recruitment processes, facilitating onboarding of new team members and supporting the team in staying on track. She is emotionally intelligent and understands management and ethics.
HR, Office and Project Manager
MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Roman Suleiman
Weekly advisor via phone
Roman was studying his Master in Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark when he started working with eGro in 2015. In the winter of 2016, he provided his time to work with tasks including building a viable business case, finding a suitable go-to market strategy, organizing production on the supply side, selecting relevant crops and establishing a viable business model. Roman is a now working with PWC in Switzerland while he invests his earnings in eGro and saves up for the day that he dreams of coming back to eGro on full-time. He worked 6 months part time for an impact investment firm before becoming corporate.
CFO
MA Finance and accounting
eGro Freelancers
Andrius Motuzas
Freelance
Andrius is eGro’s visual 3D artist and web developer. He communicates eGro’s complex model in a comprehensible visual design, shaping eGro’s message in a simple visual language. His abilities within coding expands eGro’s possibilities for developing visual directions.
Web Developer
BA Multimedia
Abdalla Alhassan
Abdalla is eGro’s local developer of educational material for the farmers. He develops the material in the Ghanaian language and with a cultural understanding. He also produces and trains his own documentary crew for the recording of the material.
Media Developer