Isaac Sesi

Isaac Sesi is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, engineer, and the founder of Sesi Technologies, a Ghanaian company that solves agricultural and food challenges. He is known for his development of a moisture meter to help sub-Saharan African farmers reduce post-harvest losses

Education Sesi is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) where he studied electrical engineering. He completed his senior high school education at Mfantsipim School, where he studied general science. This device allows farmers and grain traders to measure moisture levels of maize, wheat, millet, and other staple. which made it to the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I Global Pitch competition semifinals.

The following year he co-founded 2eweboys, a creative writing agency. In 2017, Sesi, then a research engineer at the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Dr Paul Armstrong, a researcher at the United States Department of Agriculture, worked together on a Feed the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post Harvest Losses Project in partnership with Kansas State University to develop a low-cost moisture meter. The moisture meter was launched at a ceremony in KNUST

Achievements

GrainMate has won the GIST Tech-I 2019 and the Empowering People Award. Pasco App won Gold in the Freelance Education category of the MTN Apps Challenge Version 4.0 in 2017 NextEinstein finalist Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by the Royal Academy of Engineering