Esi is an Assistant
Professor at Ashesi University,
where she teaches classes including Human Resource Management, Organizational
Behavior, and Negotiation & Creative Problem Solving, working closely with
her students to help them in self-discovery, identifying, articulating and
carving out their career paths. She is an avid believer in, and
contributor to achieving the vision and mission of Ashesi.
Her other professional
and academic interests include social and public entrepreneurship and
sustainable educational and public
sector reform in Ghana. Esi earned her Bachelor's degrees in
Psychology, International Affairs and French from the Florida State University
in 1999, graduating with a three Bachelor’s degrees in three years cum
laude (with honors). She also holds Master's degrees in Social
Sciences and in Public Service Management from the University of Chicago (2004)
and DePaul University in Chicago (2002), respectively. She holds a PhD in
Public Administration (2008) from Rutgers University in New Jersey. In
September 2009, Esi was welcomed into the Africa Leadership Initiative as an ALI Fellow.
Esi has a deep
commitment to community service and has a long history of volunteer work
wherever in the world she finds herself. From caring for displaced orphans in
Jamaica, to mentoring adolescents to excel academically in Florida, to laboring
to refurbish houses for the low-income elderly in Kentucky, to caring for
children in a daycare in France and mentoring incarcerated youth in Ghana. Esi
is a member of the Board of the Longevity
Project, where she also serves as a volunteer.
Esi is a
chocolate-lover who counts cooking and eating, writing, traveling, and
photography amongst her hobbies. She believes that being spiritually alive and
well is the key to her success, and describes herself as a simple, high-energy
person who never runs out of ideas (she maintains a detailed Idea Bank), and
also as a "grounded idealist" with a sense of urgency and an aim to
bring positive transformation wherever she finds herself.
Kwadwo Adjei-Barwuah
Kwadwo began his
career with Investors Group Canada, then the largest financial services company
in Canada. As a Financial Consultant
in Investor's Group Asset Management section, he provided investment and tax
planning solutions to small Canadian businesses and households. As a licensed
mutual funds dealer, he structured and tracked several investment portfolios.
Kwadwo also worked as
an Analyst and Head of Information Systems for the Banking Supervision
Department of the Bank of Ghana. As head of a unit responsible for reporting on
the banking industry, he tracked the solvency, profitability and liquidity of
the Banking and Non-Banking industry at an aggregate and individual level during
his time with the Bank of Ghana, Kwadwo also served as the User Team Lead on a
project to develop and implement the national supervision software.
Kwadwo most recently
worked as an Associate with Black Star Advisors, a Ghanaian Investment Bank. He
was responsible for a originating, structuring and monitoring deals for a $10MM
Venture Capital Fund as well as structuring third party mutual funds.
Kwadwo has a
Bachelor's Degree in Economics with a Minor Management (with Distinction) from
McGill University in Canada and is an affiliate member of the Association of
Certified Chartered Accountants.
Isaac Kwaku Fokuoh
Isaac is an
international business development and finance expert with over 12 years of
experience in change and project management, supply-chain management, and business development. His areas of
expertise include corporate due diligence and governance, socially responsible
investing, process design and implementation, political and economic risk
analysis, and Islamic finance.
As principal of the
BOTHO Group of companies, Isaac provides clients with independent, impartial,
and comprehensive advice about investment
opportunities in emerging markets. BOTHO is also involved in the nonprofit
sector and is proficient at using private sector resources to develop
micro-enterprise and finance opportunities through sustainable economic
development programs in emerging economies. Current projects are in Southeast
Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Prior to founding
BOTHO, Isaac was selected to participate in a prestigious management
development program at McMaster-Carr where he held several positions of
increasing responsibility in process management, realignment and implementation
of best business practices. As part of the operations management team, he
managed daily operations of the order fulfillment department (monthly sales of
approximately $30M), supervised over 80 employees, and served as assistant
project leader of a team that facilitated and developed set-up and readiness in
large-scale warehouse operations including safety requirements, product
placement, density, and workforce management.
Isaac is a
sought-after speaker on topics such as emerging market opportunities, socially
responsible investing, corporate governance, strategic philanthropy, and
operations management. He has authored articles on emerging markets, Islamic
finance, and corporate social responsibility that were published in the
Middle-East, South-East Asia and Africa.
Isaac holds an MBA
from DePaul University's Kelsdadt School of Business, an MA in International
Relations from the University of Chicago and a BA in International Studies from
Hanover College.
Eric Donkoh
Eric Donkoh is a
senior microprocessor circuit design engineer at Intel Corporation Enterprise Microprocessor
Group in Portland, Oregon. Eric joined IntelLogic Technology Development,
Microprocessor Design Group, in 1999 and has since worked on the design of
major Intel and industry leading state-of-the-art Microprocessor and Process
Technology products such as Core i7/i5/i3, Pentium 4, Dual/Multi-Core, and
Pentium III line of CPUs for Laptops, Desktop, and Servers.
Eric also does
research in the field of Low Power CPU design with the view to reducing CPU
energy consumption. He is currently the Intel Converged Core Development
Organization Register File Circuits Power Lead. Eric also does collaborative
research with Oregon State University, USA.
Eric has diverse
interest in various fields and has hobbies that span from sports to social
commentary to internet and computer technologies. Eric serves on the board NAPE
foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to provide education
opportunity through academic scholarships to Ghanaian students for university
education.
Eric has M.Sc. degree
in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, USA (1999) and B.Sc.
degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Central State University, USA (1997).
