About TAIM54
Africa's Trade & Marketplace for 54 Nations — connecting buyers and suppliers across the entire continent through AI-powered procurement.
Our Mission
TAIM54 exists to unlock intra-African trade. Across all 54 nations, billions of dollars of commerce happen every year — but too much of it is friction-filled, opaque, or dependent on relationships rather than transparent markets. We're changing that with a modern B2B marketplace backed by AI-driven sourcing, procurement automation, and a supplier network spanning the continent.
Our Team
Founders
Gloria Owusu
Director of Operations & Co-Founder
A Ghanaian native educated in the UK and US, Gloria is a serial entrepreneur who founded a successful business consulting company. She brings deep expertise in African business operations and cross-border commerce to TAIM54.
Business Development Representatives Across Africa
Amara Diallo
Business Development Representative - West Africa
📍 Senegal
Amara brings 5+ years of B2B sales experience across West African markets. She specializes in building supplier relationships and connecting African exporters with international buyers. Her network spans textile, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors across the Sahel region.
Kwasi Mensah
Business Development Representative - Ghana
📍 Ghana
Kwasi has deep connections throughout Ghana's mining and cocoa export industries. A logistics expert by training, he understands the friction points in African supply chains and is passionate about digitizing trade. He previously worked with port authorities in Tema.
Zainab Hassan
Business Development Representative - East Africa
📍 Kenya
Based in Nairobi, Zainab focuses on connecting TAIM54 with Kenya's thriving horticulture, coffee, and technology sectors. She has strong relationships with farmer cooperatives and export associations, enabling TAIM54 to reach smaller producers often ignored by traditional marketplaces.
Thabo Mkhize
Business Development Representative - Southern Africa
📍 South Africa
Thabo covers South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe - regions with massive mineral and agricultural potential. His background in commodities trading gives him insider knowledge of how deals actually get done across Southern Africa. He's building TAIM54's mining and precious metals vertical.
Chinyere Okafor
Business Development Representative - Nigeria
📍 Nigeria
Chinyere brings Lagos entrepreneurship energy to TAIM54's vision. She's spent years connecting Nigerian SMEs to pan-African supply chains and understands the unique challenges faced by African businesses trying to scale across borders. She's focused on building trust with suppliers in sub-Saharan Africa's largest economy.
Abebe Mengstu
Business Development Representative - Central & East Africa
📍 Ethiopia
Based in Addis Ababa, Abebe covers Ethiopia, Uganda, and Central Africa. He specializes in agricultural commodities and agro-processing, sectors where African suppliers have significant untapped potential. His relationships with farming cooperatives and exporters help democratize access to global markets.
Every AU member state is represented in our supplier and buyer network
From RFQ generation to proposal evaluation — powered by AI at every step
Sourcing → RFQ → PO → Fulfillment, all in one platform
What We Do
TAIM54 is a B2B marketplace and AI-powered procurement platform built specifically for African trade. Buyers can source verified products and services from across the continent, submit RFQs and RFPs, and manage their entire procurement lifecycle — from requisition to purchase order to delivery tracking — through a single platform.
Suppliers gain access to a continent-wide buyer network, an intelligent RFQ response system, and tools to manage their product listings, orders, and documentation — all without complex ERP integrations.
Behind the scenes, our AI procurement workflow engine handles specification extraction, RFQ document generation, proposal evaluation, and PO drafting — dramatically reducing the time from sourcing need to awarded contract.
Built for Africa
Africa's trade ecosystem has unique needs: multi-currency transactions, complex cross-border logistics, diverse regulatory environments, and the importance of supplier relationships built on trust. TAIM54 is designed from the ground up to serve these realities, not to impose a Western marketplace model onto African business culture.