Jason Clinton
Business Development Manager
Hire this person
Send a job offer directly to this candidate
About
2x startup founder, one exit. Led GTM, market entry and growth strategies across Ghana and West Africa. Currently leading Operations at Access View Africa, one of Capi's clients, overseeing investments and cross-border transactions for import/export businesses across Africa.
Experience
Head of Operations & Business Development at Access View Africa (2025-01 – Present)
Running end-to-end operations for a firm that invests in and scales import/export businesses across Africa.
- Reports directly to the CEO, running end-to-end operations for a firm that invests in and scales import/export businesses across Africa.
- Managing the Capi Money partnership, facilitating international supplier payments for portfolio clients.
- Built a proprietary investment portfolio management platform that helped scale AUM from $100K to $1M.
- Organised the Value Creation Summit, a flagship event bringing together 200+ C-suite executives and institutional investors.
Founder at Growk AI (2024-01 – 2026-01)
Built an AI-powered platform helping foreign businesses expand into African markets.
- Built an AI-powered platform helping foreign businesses expand into African markets, covering GTM strategy, team building, and customer acquisition.
- Scaled Truscreen, a Chinese LCD distributor, from zero to $1M MRR across Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Founder & CTO at AcquireAI (2023-01 – 2024-01)
Built an M&A sourcing and due diligence automation platform. Acquired by Unybrands.
- Built an M&A sourcing and due diligence automation platform from the ground up.
- Drove user acquisition to 1,000+ within the first month through growth hacking, automation and strategic partnerships.
- Facilitated multiple 5–6 figure transactions and successfully exited via acquisition.
Software Engineer at Pandora Software Inc (2021-01 – 2023-01)
Built data infrastructure for Afrobarometer, processing millions of survey responses across African countries.
- Built data infrastructure for Afrobarometer, processing millions of survey responses across 35+ African countries.
- Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 80% through architecture optimisation and resource rightsizing.
Education
BSc in Computer Science – University of Greenwich (2018-01 – 2021-01)