Ngu Nyindem founded Pether in 2008 as a Web Development Company and it later evolved to an Application Development Company.
They both grew up in Cameroon seeing children who were malnourished and could not go to school and families losing loved ones ever so often due to chronic financial hardship to illnesses that could easily be treated.
While Ngu dreamed to one day save lives as a medical doctor, Nelson was bent on providing financial solutions to curb poverty.
Ngu’s dream to become a medical doctor was dashed at 11 after he was involved in a fatal accident via which he ended up losing two fingers on his left hand. However, he had a breakthrough to go to the US in 1998, where he arrived with $20 and the determination to realize his dreams. He enrolled in the University of Maryland and graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering.
Fast forward several years later, Ngu is realizing his dream, working with folks in the informal sector who have often been neglected and lacked access to the sort of services Pether is enabling them to have now.