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Good Nigerian is founder-led, but its roots go much deeper than one person.

My father, Sir Louis Anyanwu, grew up as an orphan. His father died before he was born, and his mother died when he was still a child. Despite serious challenges — health difficulties, a hearing impediment and financial hardship — he went on to finish top of his class and graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, as an accountant.

He later married Lady Evette Anyanwu, my mother.

Lady Evette is a food nutritionist. She was one of the few people selected by the government to train at the prestigious Michael Okpara College of Agriculture, now Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. She later trained farmers in Ibadan on food processing techniques, including the production of soya bean milk, cassava flour and other nutritious food products.

She eventually set up the Evette Institute of Catering, a training centre for young women — later including young men — to learn food production techniques, hospitality, events management and fashion. To date, she has trained over 30,000 young women and men, many of whom have gone on to start businesses, gain employment, enter academia and move into leadership positions.

I had the unique opportunity to watch and learn from my mother first-hand as she processed raw soya beans into a nourishing, great-tasting drink, and beans into moi moi, alongside many other nutritious plant-based products.

That gave me a solid foundation: relentless determination from my father, and impact-driven business acumen from my mother.

Food production became a natural career path for me. I began as a Food Production Operative at RF Brookes in Newport, Gwent, then worked as a Catering Assistant at BaxterStorey in Bristol, Food Production Supervisor at Trust Quality Foods Plc in Bristol, and later at Ultrapharm in Newport, Gwent.

Good Nigerian is the next expression of that journey: a nutrition and technology company building the world’s first mass-market longevity food system.