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Summary

Twenty years operating at the point where government mandate, market economics, and technology implementation meet. Co-founded one of West Africa's first fintech companies; designed Ghana's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy; architect of national digital transformation blueprints referenced in a $200M World Bank project. Now builds and advises across fintech, policy, and venture, from Heritors Labs.

Executive Roles

Co-Founder & CEO, Sevn Group (formerly DreamOval)

2007–2018 · now Chairman-track advisor

Built Slydepay and CocoaLink; delivered digital banking infrastructure for 5M+ bank accounts across five Ghanaian banks; independently valued at GHS 345M by Fincap Securities, January 2025.

Founder & Principal Innovation Architect, Heritors Labs

2019–present

USD 1.09M secured as Principal Investigator across two phases of the UK FCDO's RISA Fund. Originated the IMVCM and RISCAM frameworks, deployed across five African countries.

CEO, Ghana Chamber of Technology

2018

Led private-sector consultation that fed directly into the drafting of Ghana's Payment Systems and Services Act.

Policy & Government Engagements

Principal Architect, Ghana National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2022–2033

The Future Society (Harvard Kennedy School) & GIZ Germany

Co-authored one of the first comprehensive national AI strategies developed in West Africa.

Principal Architect, Ghana Integrated Digital Transformation Blueprint

Ministry of Communications & Digitalisation

Now referenced as foundational infrastructure in the World Bank's $200M Ghana Digital Acceleration Project (PAD4612 ↗).

Lead Architect, Ghana National Cashless Economy Programme

United Nations Capital Development Fund · Nov 2019 – Nov 2020 · USD 91,400

Contracted by name as sole individual expert; designed the Digital Payments Coordination Unit structure.

Technology Track Chair, Ghana–Singapore Financial Trust Corridor

Monetary Authority of Singapore & Bank of Ghana

Bilateral digital financial interoperability framework.

Corporate & Board Advisory

MTN Ghana (Scancom PLC)

Channel Partner Business Transformation Programme · Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · GHS 2,525,951 contract

Led a comprehensive business transformation programme across MTN's nine Channel Partners.

Volta River Authority

Founding Principal & Chief Advisor, The Heritors People

Directed a three-deliverable enterprise transformation programme, including a 17-department baseline assessment and a five-year Digital Transformation and Innovation Blueprint.

GFA Consulting Group (Germany) / BMZ

Senior Technical Expert · Oct 2023 – present

Directs human-centric service design and digital experience strategy for a German Federal Ministry-funded programme, including user testing across 12+ digital apps.

Selected Speaking

UC Berkeley Haas Africa Business Forum · Founder, host & keynote, Africa Research and Innovation Commercialisation Summit (ARICS) · Kellogg School of Management Africa Business Forum · London School of Economics Africa Summit · Kenya Innovation Week (Commonwealth Edition, UK Government) · 3i Africa Summit · Kenya CEIL Summit · Standard Chartered Bank speaker series. Full list on the Speaking page.

Education & Credentials

AI & Machine Learning, Business Applications

Post-Graduate Programme, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business · 2025

Business Transformation

Certificate, Stanford SEED Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business · 2016

BSc Computer Science

Ashesi University, Accra · 2003–2006

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