Founder and Group Chairman of Kasapreko Company Limited, Dr Kwabena Adjei has won the prestigious Master Entrepreneur Award at this year’s West African edition of Ernst and Young’s World Entrepreneur of the Year Awards held in Lagos, Nigeria on Friday night February 5, 2016.

Dr Adjei was named ahead of three other contenders to take home the coveted award. He will be inducted into the World Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame.

Dr Adjei will battle it out with other world entrepreneurs for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year award during the World Entrepreneur of the Year Forum this June in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

The EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award programme is to recognize the accomplishments of entrepreneurs around the globe. The programme aims at recognising the world’s most successful and innovative entrepreneurs by identifying and celebrating their outstanding achievements within successful growing of dynamic businesses.

Other award winners during the event were Kinapharma’s Managing Director Kofi Nsiah-Poku who won the Emerging Entrepreneur Award and Sir Sam Jonah who won the Lifetime Achievement Award.