Kpenkaan Terhemen

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Director General, Nigerian Youth Chamber of Commerce

Mr. Kpenkaan Terhemen Johnpaul is a Certified Business Incubation Manager, who is passionate about SME development. He is the founder and CEO of CP Brands Ltd, a company that has helped over 450 small businesses develop high quality brand collaterals to create strong brand equities in the market place. Johnpaul has impacted knowledge and skills to over 187,000 participants in trainings ranging from life skills, personal development and entrepreneurship development in the last 20 years. 

As Director General of the Nigerian Youth Chamber of Commerce (NYCC), he led the Chamber to receive accreditation from the Central Bank of Nigeria as an Entrepreneurial Development Institute (EDI). Johnpaul proceeded to develop and launch the Academy for MSME, an online learning management system (LMS). The learning platform has enabled over 3,000 enterprise operators to acquire entrepreneurship training online in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

To address the challenge of financial exclusion among the youth, Johnpaul led the NYCC to digitize daily savings under the auspices of Digital Asusu. This self help Fintech solution has been endorsed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as “an ingenious financial inclusion solution towards digitizing informal savings to improve access to finance for low income earners in Nigeria.”

His relentless passion for SME development has led him to establish the SME Roundtable, an online platform where he shares small-business-focused information via blogposts, podcasts, E-books, and YouTube videos; to inspire aspiring and budding youth entrepreneurs gain insight and address their daily business challenges.

Johnpaul holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He is a Certified Professional in Digital Money (CIDM), and the Distributed Ledger, with a focus on the blockchain.