(Togo First) - Pawou Batana is a key figure in the Telecom industry in Togo. A brilliant student, he received the Phi Kappa Phi award which is awarded to the best students in the US. In 1991, Pawou Batana started working at Togo Telecom where he stayed over a long period before slowly starting his own business in 2003.

In 2006, the DePaul University graduate quit Togo Telecom to fully focus on his company, IPNET EXPERTS SA, an IT solutions provider which also includes a computer engineering training centre. In 2018, this center became an IT university. BATANA is well known in the region when it comes to IT projects.