Nayokan is a development ecosystem connecting vocational training, entrepreneurship, innovation and capital — designed as one working system for building productive capacity in Cameroon.
Cameroon does not lack talent. It does not lack ideas, entrepreneurship or ambition. What has often been missing is institutional infrastructure — the connective tissue between skill, enterprise, market and capital.
Nayokan was founded to build that infrastructure. Our motto — « Skills for Industrialisation » — reflects a specific conviction: that a country becomes productive not through isolated programmes, but through connected systems that carry capability all the way through to lasting economic value.
Our four worlds — VTI, Startup Centre, Venture Capital and Hospitality — are not four separate organisations. They are four operating arms of the same institution, each covering a stage of the same productive pathway.
Skills alone are not enough. Systems create lasting value.
Every Nayokan programme is designed to feed the next stage of the ecosystem. VTI graduates enter entrepreneurial clusters. Clusters become ventures. Ventures move into the Startup Centre for commercialization. Commercialised ventures access Venture Capital. Productive assets are anchored in Hospitality.
The result is that a young Cameroonian entering VTI today can — through a single institution — progress from certified skill to productive enterprise to funded venture, without ever leaving the ecosystem.
Six principles that shape how Nayokan operates — internally and with every partner, applicant and community we work with.
We build systems that outlast individuals. Repeatable processes, documented governance, transparent decisions.
We only publish what we can verify. Marketing claims are held to the same evidentiary standard as reports.
Programmes are the tools. Individual human capability — its formation, dignity and productive expression — is the goal.
We measure ourselves by the productive activity we create in Cameroon — not by presentations, prizes or PR.
We work with universities, ministries and communities as equals. Local knowledge is the starting point, not a footnote.
Building a productive economy takes decades. We are structured to be here for them.
Nayokan is a young institution with long-term intent.
The founding team convenes around the conviction that Cameroon needs connected institutions for skills, enterprise and capital.
Early curriculum design for the Vocational Training Institute, and first partnership conversations with Cameroonian institutions.
The Nayokan Vocational Training Institute launches its computer lab in Yaoundé.
The Startup Centre formalises the commercialization pathway from research to venture.
Venture Capital and Hospitality are structured as full divisions, and the Nayokan digital ecosystem launches with this website.
The people leading and advising Nayokan. Division leads are introduced here as each appointment is announced.
Senior Systems Engineer at Ameris Bank, previously in infrastructure engineering at Disney Signature Experiences and AAA. Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from the Catholic University of Central Africa. Based in Atlanta; specializes in enterprise infrastructure, cloud technologies and automation.
Associate at McKinsey & Company, previously in Sales Strategy at Kenvue. MBA from Rotman, Master of Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and BEng from the University of Sheffield. Based in Toronto; bilingual in English and French.
Development organizations, universities, corporates, government and investors — Nayokan is designed for long-term institutional partnership.
