Kofi is a finance and management professional with fifteen (15) years of experience in financial, accounting system establishment and management and agribusiness development. Kofi is resourceful and has a penchant for finding solutions to problems. He has led teams to do due diligence on ten (10) institutions across Africa to assess the institution’s financial and management capacity to receive and report on grants. He has worked extensively in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Mali and therefore has a very good understanding of the finance and management standards of these countries and by extension Africa. Kofi has successfully supervised and managed grants of US$30m. He is very conversant with the reporting requirements of EU, USAID, Danida, and CFTC having worked with all these development partners in the past. Kofi is diligent, a good writer, confident, team player, capable of managing teams and getting the best out of people with diverse skill sets. He is very conversant with and has used ITbased accounting software such as Sun system, Microsoft Dynamics and Quickbooks. He has a knack for learning new things especially computer-based systems.

His academic and experience fields include finance and accounting, communications, business administration, business incubation management, project planning and management, strategic planning, and management, applied research planning and coordination, entrepreneurship, sustainable development and management, agribusiness value chain development, projects monitoring and evaluation with experience in project management, design and coordination including resource mobilisation in Africa and beyond.

Kofi has worked extensively both at the national and international level with private, government and development sector partners to design and implement incubation, acceleration and business development programmes. He has directly worked on the design and implementation several agribusiness entrepreneurship programs. He is an accredited business development trainer and has trained participants from both private and public sectors on business development as part of the overall Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise entrepreneurship sector strengthening programs.

Kofi has worked extensively in Ghana Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire, India, Zambia, South Africa and Mali and therefore has a very good understanding entrepreneurial ecosystem of these countries and by extension Africa. He is also highly experienced in Trade and Investment Negotiation, providing strategic insights to foster economic growth and development.

He is a key member of the team that started one of the largest agribusiness incubation programmes in 2010 and sustained it through the establishment of African Agribusiness Incubators Network (AAIN) in 2015. Since then, he has co-led in re-aligning the major structures and systems, developing and strategically positioning the AAIN brand for business development and resource mobilization.