Board & Management

A pan-African industrialist and economist, and Founder and Managing Partner of Semper, KOACH & O, he brings to the chair two decades of operating command and a conviction that the Africa-Asia corridor is this century's defining growth axis, one to be built on real industry, disciplined capital and durable partnership rather than aid.

Through Semper, KOACH & O he practises market-system development, aligning Asian manufacturing capacity and international capital with African enterprise. That practice is grounded in a portfolio he has founded, chaired and advised: the Fortis Sentinel Group in AI and defence capability, private credit and trade-payments infrastructure, extractives, energy and national food security. He has led a workforce of more than 1,300 and coordinated a billion-dollar smart-city programme.

He holds a master's degree in Economic Policy Management, majoring in monetary economics, and is a beneficiary of the University of Cape Town's Leaders in Extractives and Africa Development programme.

With a multidisciplinary background in engineering, international business management and law, he brings a practical, commercially oriented perspective to cross-border cooperation. He holds an MBA in International Business Management and a Master's degree in International Law, is qualified as a PRC lawyer and holds a Chinese ESG qualification.

With more than ten years in international trade across goods and services, he has advised on business and investment involving China, Europe, Africa and Asia, and is committed to facilitating practical, sustainable cooperation between Chinese, African and Asian companies.

A research economist, policy analyst and senior banker with more than twelve years of experience, she has built credit-scoring and risk models to Basel and IFRS 9 standards and led energy-sector value-chain studies across oil, gas and power.

Her work translates complex economic data into strategic policy and bankable structure, strengthening how the Forum evaluates cross-border projects and matches Asian capital and capacity to African infrastructure and energy opportunities. She holds a Master of Arts in Economic Policy Management from the University of Ghana, with professional qualifications in banking (ACIB) and accountancy (ACCA).

His practice structures the financing, dealership and trade arrangements that turn cross-border interest into operating businesses on the ground, spanning heavy equipment and industrial OEM channels, agribusiness and project finance, trade and investment promotion, and rural SME development.

He has mobilised over US$100 million of FDI into Ghana and built OEM channel relationships across leading Chinese heavy-equipment manufacturers.

For more than eight years she has implemented and tested SimCorp Dimension, the platform behind many of the world's asset managers, banks, pension funds, insurers and central banks, spanning private debt, portfolio management and performance analytics. Her consulting spans Europe and Africa, including the Central Bank of Kenya and leading Nordic institutions, and she currently maintains front-office solutions at a major Danish bank.

For the Forum she strengthens the systems, data discipline and financial analysis behind cross-border investment between Africa and Asia. She holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Ghana, where she was awarded best economics student, and is a Certified SimCorp Professional.

A certified professional HR practitioner (PHRi) and budding lawyer with over five years of experience across human resources, administration and payroll, she brings compliance discipline and operational rigour to the board.

Fluent in English and French, she is recognised for aligning HR and administrative functions with organisational goals, strengthening policy implementation, employee relations and record management. As Board Secretary she safeguards transparent proceedings, accurate minutes and the sound administration on which the Chamber's members and partners rely.