Gagan Gupta is arguably the best-known entrepreneur in Libreville, who whispers in President Ali Bongo Ondimba's ear, and who made Olam Gabon, a subsidiary of the Singaporean agribusiness giant, the country's first private company.
Its dazzling trajectory has something to make people envious.
A native of Rajasthan, in the north-west of India, a management controller in his early days, passed through the financial departments of the Indian subsidiaries of Reebok and Reckitt Benckiser, he arrived in Gabon in 2008, at the age of 33. , without speaking a word of French, to direct the activities of Olam.
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Thirteen years later, he is at the head of Arise, a pan-African group that he created, of which Olam is the reference shareholder with the African Finance corporation, an investment fund.
The holding company continues to expand through its three branches: Arise IS for infrastructure, which includes the Libreville and Nouakchott airports (Mauritania) in its portfolio and the Libreville 780 km road project.
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