Dziedzorm Kwaku Segbefia

Dziedzorm ‘JayJay’ Segbefia is General Partner of BraveHearts Expeditions and works as Expedition Leader on the firm’s experiential learning adventure activities. His company won this past year’s StartUp Cup Ghana Business Model Competition, from which he was personally acclaimed and honored with the Ghana Angel Investor Network’s coveted Most Promising Entrepreneur 2013 Award. Dziedzorm Kwaku Segbefia led his firm to place 2nd in the first World StartUp Cup Competition hosted in Armenia in January, and compensated four months later with winning the Enablis Business Launchpad Competition. Although his academic backgrounds are in communication studies and journalism, he has over a decade’s experience in extensive adventure leadership having conducted a total of 387 jungle, mountain, white water, and wilderness experiential learning expeditions across Africa. Before founding BraveHearts Expeditions, he honed his skills as a Public Relations Officer of a graduate university and briefly as Junior Communications Advisor to the African Cashew Initiative (ACI) of GIZ, Germany’s leading provider of international cooperation. JayJay plans to apply the Business and Entrepreneurship education experience from the Washington Fellowship to expanding the revenue streams of his young firm with commercial Rappelling Sports and Corporate Expedition services that will create more economic opportunity and jobs for Ghana’s teeming unemployed young people. Dziedzorm was one of 100 Fellows competitively selected to participate in an 8-week internship in the United States following the Mandela Washington Fellowship academic institute. He interned at the National Outdoor Leadership Schools (NOLS) in August-September 2014.