GICAM pays hommage to its President Andre Fotso

He died at the age of 69 on the 2nd August 2016 in Paris after a protracted illness.

Mr. Andre Fotso will be remembered as a rare Cameroonian business magnet who provided direct employment to more than 800 Cameroonians.

After his sojourn as a student of the Lyon II University in France In 1977 to 1983, where he studied Science Management Andre Fotso came back to Cameroon and in 1991, began a business entreprise.

In 1993 he set up the first Cameroon Gas company and in 2002 became a member of GICAM.

His efforts to enlarge the Cameroon Business landscape earned him the post of a vice President of GICAM in 2008, after having contributed to establish the Ecobank group in Cameroon in 2003.

In May 2010, the organization registered some remarkable changes thanks to some innovations made by the deceased.

In July 2010 he laid a ground work of the construction of the Kribi deep sea port, and some road infrastructural projects in September that same year.