Gabriel Atchori N'Dri

Independent

Trainer

Atchori N'Dri is an entrepreneurship and financial management trainer and coach. He graduated from the National University of Côte d’Ivoire in 1981 with a major in economics.

Mr. N'Dri began his professional career by integrating the prestigious state financial institution (Caisse Autonome d’Amortissement, or CAA) that was the Sinking Fund in 1982 as a head of research and head of bond loans services. In 1994 he began his consulting career in several Ivorian firms, notably in assistance and management of SMEs and agricultural organizations. With his experience and achievements, in 2003 he created the AMB Consulting firm. In order to be more operational, in 2002 he became a certified trainer of the International Labor Organization's "Start and Improve Your own Business", or SIYB program. In 2006 he received the Project Manager certificate with the Israeli MASHAV program and in 2011 he became an IFC trainer. In 2012 he obtained the regional trainer certificate initiated by WAEMU and executed by the Regulatory Authority of public markets Côte d’Ivoire (ANMRP) and became an expert in diagnosis “CDE / UEMOA” after a careful sub-regional selection of consultants in 2013 in Bamako (e.g. FUNDES); expertise he combines with the assessor certificate of professional agricultural organizations of the Dutch company Scopeinsight Plus Scope Basic and Pro. In 2018 he received AMEA-ALP and IFC-LPI certificates and became a Scope Pro financial evaluator expert.

He has to his credit more than 400 entrepreneurs and 200 SME managers trained, of whom 80 received assistance and coaching; over 200 business plans were put together, and the capacity of 300 management employees and non-executive management and corporate finance strengthened. Mr. N'Dri performed 50 diagnostic missions and evaluation of private companies and agricultural organizations; accompanied fifteen NGOs and associations in the creation, organization and management.

Finally, in 2013-2018 he trained and coached more than 500 cooperative organizations’ managers within CARGILL COOP Academy projects Proplanteurs, Procacao, and ICRAF CVC.