Mark Matovu

Mark Matovu is a Ugandan social entrepreneur and a computer scientist. He's the founder and CEO of Nampya Farmers Market - a food distribution and logistics startup in Uganda. Through Nampya Farmers Market, him and his team have developed and are operating a unique low-tech enabled food supply solution to address the inherent inefficiencies in the delivery of fresh produce in East Africa with a significant positive impact for both low-income agricultural producers and consumers. Also helping farmers to access quality farm inputs, Nampya's structure paves the way improved for improved equity, efficiency and transparency in the Ugandan agri-food market.
He has been featured in the 2018 Ashoka Changemakers, in the 2019 UNCTAD-Alibaba eFounder Fellows, in the 2020 SOMET Afrique-France Laurette, a 2018 Sankalp Africa Ugandan delegate and has received awards in different categories on the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge, 2021 UNDP SDG Impact Challenge, the 2021 Land Accelerator program of the World Resources Institute and is among the 2023 100 Meaningful Business leaders combining profit and purpose as per the EY, Hogan Lovells, Gibson College and United Nations. With expertise in Information systems Analysis, Logistics and supply chain space management, Mark is now committed to innovating the local food industry through creating deeper market penetration and distribution channels in the consumer food supply. He's a mentor on the UGEFA green businesses forum in Uganda.