Gatien Gildas TSAMBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
VECTAFRIQ GLOBAL PARTNERS Inc.
Profile updated on September 7, 2026
Two sets of standards combined: the institution's and the business's
Gatien Gildas TSAMBA is the President of VECTAFRIQ GLOBAL PARTNERS Inc. and has led the Company since its incorporation in Ottawa on August 17, 2026.
A project and programme manager and administrator, he has eight years of experience within the African Union system and the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), between Addis Ababa and Accra: preparing and coordinating high-level meetings, producing the technical documents that accompany them, functionally supervising a team of ten, and liaising between the Commission, the Secretariat, Member States and technical partners.
He previously ran a business services company in Libreville for four years, with a staff of twelve. In 2021, he worked for an Ottawa consulting firm on the second Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa.
He therefore knows both sets of standards that VECTAFRIQ brings together: those of an institution that decides on the basis of documents, and those of a business that has to sell, deliver and get paid.
Why this company exists
I have worked on both sides of the same problem, and that problem is what gave rise to VECTAFRIQ.
On the business side, I ran a services company in Libreville. I know what it is like for a manager with a good product, real customers and a solid team to see a file come back without explanation. It is almost never the substance. It is a missing document, a figure that cannot be traced, a format that does not match what the reader expected.
On the institutional side, I spent several years at the African Union and the AfCFTA Secretariat. I saw how a decision is prepared: documents travel ahead of people, deadlines are firm, and a poorly built note disappears without anyone having to reject it. This coordination and documentation work is not very visible. Yet it is what decides whether a file exists in the eyes of the person making the call.
Between Canada and the African continent, these two sets of standards rarely meet, and months are lost on both sides. People often conclude that the deal was not viable, when in fact it was never properly presented.
VECTAFRIQ was incorporated to work precisely there. We qualify counterparties, produce documents, coordinate contributors and meet deadlines. We sell no promise of market access, and we say so when a file needs something other than what we know how to do.
A word about the term “Africa”. The continent has fifty-four states, and as many customs regimes and administrative practices. Preparing an operation in Senegal is not the same as preparing one in Cameroon. So we do not speak of the African market in the singular, and we only announce a local capability when it is documented under a written agreement.
Our limits are stated before the mandate. We guarantee neither financing, nor contract award, nor partnership, nor results. We give no legal, tax or investment advice. Anything falling under a regulated profession is entrusted to a professional licensed in the relevant jurisdiction. This reduces what we sell and increases the value of what we deliver.
The Company is young: incorporated in August 2026, it has no clients, completed mandates or publishable references to show. We prefer to say so and let our method be judged.
If you are preparing an operation between Canada and an African country, write to us with your question, the country and your deadline. We will tell you what we can do, what we will not do, and what must be entrusted to an authorised third party.
Gatien Gildas TSAMBAPresident and Chief Executive Officer
From Libreville to Ottawa, by way of Addis Ababa and Accra
Gatien Gildas TSAMBA has led VECTAFRIQ GLOBAL PARTNERS Inc. since its incorporation on August 17, 2026. He is its President and Chief Executive Officer, responsible for the management, representation and commitments of the Company.
His profession is the management and administration of projects and programmes. He practised it from 2019 to 2021 as a junior project manager in the AfCFTA Negotiations Unit of the African Union Commission's Department of Trade and Industry in Addis Ababa; from 2021 to 2022 at the AfCFTA Secretariat in Accra, as a programme officer and coordinator of a team of ten; then, from February 2022, as a programme manager at the Secretariat's Liaison Office to the Commission.
This is coordination and documentation work, not negotiation: organising high-level meetings, drafting notes, agendas, minutes and reports, managing the archiving and distribution of official documents, and circulating information between the Commission, the Secretariat, Member States and technical partners.
His entrepreneurial experience predates this institutional career. From 2013 to 2014, he was project lead, partner and board member of an agricultural cooperative in Libreville. From 2015 to 2019, he ran Global Enterprise Services, a business services company with a staff of twelve, supporting SMEs on their business models and the protection of their intangible assets. In 2021, he worked for CPCS Transcom Limited, an Ottawa consulting firm, on the second Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa: his first contact with the Canadian consulting sector.
His career has been recognised by several selective programmes: laureate of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme in 2016 and of the U.S. Embassy in Gabon grant programme in 2017, finalist among the last thirty of the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative in 2019, and fellow of the African Presidential Leadership Programme the same year.
VECTAFRIQ was born from the gap between these two worlds. A Canadian company targeting Africa does not always know who it is talking to. An African company targeting Canada discovers that the quality of its offer is not enough if the file does not take the expected form. The Company works on this precise point, with a simple rule of conduct: put in writing what commits before it commits, state the limits before the mandate, entrust to a licensed professional what falls within their profession, and never present an assumption as a fact.
The stages of a career
Periods and titles are taken from the most recent résumés.
- Since August 2026
President and Chief Executive Officer
VECTAFRIQ GLOBAL PARTNERS Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Employment - Since February 2022
Programme Manager
Liaison Office of the AfCFTA Secretariat to the African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Employment - August 2021 to January 2022
Young Professional, Programme Officer and Team Coordinator
AfCFTA Secretariat, Negotiations Unit, Accra, Ghana
Employment - July to August 2021
International Junior Consultant, Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa
CPCS Transcom Limited, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Consulting - October 2019 to June 2021
Junior Project Manager, AfCFTA Negotiations Unit
African Union Commission, Department of Trade and Industry, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Employment - November 2015 to October 2019
Managing Director
Global Enterprise Services, Libreville, Gabon
Employment - March 2013 to July 2014
Project Lead, Partner and Board Member
Globale Entreprise Jeunes cooperative, Libreville, Gabon
Employment - July to August 2011
Sales Agent, internship
Société de brasserie du Gabon, Port-Gentil, Gabon
Internship - June to August 2007
Communications Programme Officer, internship
Zain Gabon, now Airtel Gabon, Lambaréné, Gabon
Internship
Coordinating, documenting and supporting execution
Project and programme management and administration
Planning, milestones and dependencies, resource mobilisation, cost and schedule control, quality control, organised reporting and archived close-out. This is the core profession.
Institutional coordination
Preparing and running high-level meetings, technical sessions and multilateral consultations, following up on decisions, liaising between headquarters and offices.
African economic integration
AfCFTA frameworks, Phase II protocols on investment, competition and intellectual property, interplay between the Commission, the Secretariat, regional economic communities and Member States.
Technical and institutional writing
Briefing notes, agendas, presentations, minutes, activity reports and working documents, in French and English.
Document management
Collection, indexing, secure archiving and controlled distribution of official documents; design of document management systems.
Business development
Running a business services company, supporting SMEs, business models, protection of intangible assets.
Coordinating multicultural teams
Functional supervision and mentoring of technical teams, work in multilingual and multi-institutional environments.
Selective programmes and recognition
Being selected or named a finalist is not the same as winning a prize. Each entry below is worded according to what the documents establish.
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