THE Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of iroko TV Jason Njoku, voted as one of Forbes ‘Ten Young African Millionaires to watch,’ and thought to be the world’s largest distributor of African movies and Nollywood movies online with over one million unique visits each month, was recently confirmed as an official Growth Ambassador for the Alternative Securities Market (ASeM), a specialized board for listing small and mid-sized companies with high growth potential part on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Njoku has over the years promoted Nollywood movies streamed online for free with a track record in building a successful global Nigerian tech company and promoting best busines practice. At only 32-years-old, he is the youngest member of the Growth Ambassador programme for the ASeM and will be working with advisors to look at how Nigeria’s young, budding entrepreneurs, notably in the technology and Internet sphere, can access funding and mentorship from business veterans and investors.

On joining the ASeM Growth Ambassador programme, he said: “It is a huge honour to be recognized by the Nigerian Stock Exchange for my work within Nigeria’s business and technology sector and I  look forward to starting an immediate dialogue on how we can collectively encourage and support the young Nigerian entrepreneurs of the future.

“I believe there are a lot of very smart young men and women out there who have awesome ideas and are desperate to start their own companies, but too many fall at the first hurdle because they cannot access funding or navigate the bureaucracy of starting a business here. For me this is a challenge to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship in Nigeria’s SME market in the coming months and years for both the ASeM and myself which will be extremely interesting”.

Njoku was also joined by dignitaries from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the CEO, Oscar Onyema and other representatives of the Nigerian government, organizations and business entrepreneurs alongside the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Omatek Ventures Plc, Mrs. Florence Seriki as an official ASeM Growth Ambassador.