Interview By Emmanuel Abara Benson
Born into a Nigerian Logistics Empire, Obinna Anyaegbu is now Leveraging Tech to Forge his own Path in Business
am most interested in is how logistics influences trade. That’s exactly why I established Chisco Express. We are using technology and leveraging data to build a platform/marketplace that will enable trade to happen seamlessly.
As you know, logistics is a driver for so many other aspects of the commerce value chain. For this reason, we are building on logistics which is our base. That’s what we have honed into, as our strength, over the past 35 years as a group.
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binna Anyaegbu is the first son of Chief Chidi Anyaegbu, a successful Nigerian business tycoon who amassed his vast wealth from his transportation and logistics business. In this interview with Business Elites Africa, he recounts his experience growing up in a family that was characterized by logistics and transportation, and how his father’s success informed his career path. Also, he discusses Chisco Express, a technologybacked startup he recently founded as part of his plans for the next growth phase of his father’s empire. Enjoy the conversation.
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People will like to know how your father’s success in transportation and logistics has influenced your decision to follow the same path.
Chisco Express is now coming along as the new kid on the block, backed by technology and bringing embedded services into the chain with our partners, all with the mission of consolidating everything Chisco Group has already done. With Chisco Transport, we already have on the ground over $25 million worth of logistics infrastructure across West Africa.
Obinna: I was basically born into logistics. From a very young age, I got immersed in everything there is about logistics – driver management, And that’s basically what we now fleet acquisition, spare parts, etc. want to build tech on top of. But then I’ve basically been in and around the again, it’s beyond just building on situation of logistics. what Chisco Transport already has on ground. It’s also about the other And I must admit that my father’s embedded services we are offering; mastery and success in this industry about making it possible for other through his company Chisco service providers to link into our Transport have been a big influence technology and provide services to on me. Right now, however, what I clients.
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