Captain Budu Koomson is an accomplished business executive with diverse experience and competencies both in Africa and Europe. Captain (Rtd) Budu Koomson is currently the Founder and CEO of Nexus Consulting Limited. He serves as the key consultant for Nexus clients in areas of Business, Financial Advisory and Training (especially to NBFIs and SMEs), Management and Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching, Strategy and Country Risk Analysis.

Captain Koomson  was appointed initially to the UT Financial Services’ Board in 2006 and subsequently onto various boards in the Group and finally the UT Holdings Ltd. Board in 2009.

He is currently a Director of Bentil Consulting Limited and the Board Chairman of JA Plant Pool Limited. He also sits on the board of IMANI Center for Policy and Education. Captain is a motivational speaker and also does public-speaking on mainly social issues amongst other topics.

Dr. Bannerman-Richter is a legal and business advisor with nearly twenty years’ experience in project finance as well as Small-Medium Enterprise development. Anna is a Ghanaian-American, born in Ghana, educated and trained in Europe and the U.S., where she lived for thirty years before returning to Ghana eleven years ago. She received her B.Sc in Business (summa cum laude) from the University of Maryland, an MBA and a law degree, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

She was legal counsel for, and served on the Board of Directors of, The Center for Community Health and Well-Being, Inc., in California.

She has been actively involved in fundraising activities in the U.S. and Ghana for the past thirty years and was honored with a “No. 1 Fundraiser Award” by students at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She has worked with numerous nonprofit organizations in a variety of roles, including legal or fundraising counsel and board trainer, and she has also served as a volunteer liaison for the United Way and the Human Race umbrella organizations in California and in these roles assisted other volunteer groups in preparations necessary to obtain maximum participation and benefit from their fundraisers.

Kofi Duodu Asomaning has enormous experience in the real estate investment and development field and currently the Managing Director, West Africa of Capri Africa Ltd where he is responsible for investment and asset management activities.

Previously, he served as a Senior Manager, Real Estate West Africa for Stanbic Bank based in Accra, Ghana as the Head of Real Estate Finance (Debt) and Real Estate Investments (Equity).

Kofi is also a founding member of The Human Development Group, Ghana, a non-profit organization which empowers young people to discover and achieve their full potential.

He has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated Summa Cum Laude (first in his class) with a BSc. Architecture, Pg Diploma in Architecture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Kofi is a product of the Achimota School in Accra.

Farida Nana Efua Bedwei is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Logiciel (Ghana) Ltd, a software company developing banking systems for the microfinance industry. Her role involves assessing the industry and coming up with practical solutions, which are easy to use by persons with no formal banking training. She believes the informal sector, which make up between 60%-70% of the population across Africa, deserve the same banking services as those in the formal sector. Thus by building affordable banking systems for them, the microfinance industry will be able to realize their full potential and offer adequate banking services to their customers.

Prior to co-founding Logiciel, Farida worked in the telecom software industry, developing mobile gateways and services for mobile networks and content providers.

Farida is also an author and a disability-rights advocate, and has been featured on many media platforms, notable amongst this is CNN African Voices in February 2015. She has also won a number of local and international awards, and was adjudged the most influential woman in business and governance (finance sector) for her work in computerizing the microfinance industry. She served on the Board of the National Communication Authority nearly 3 years and has been an executive member of Sharecare Ghana (an NGO which raises awareness for persons with autoimmune and neurological conditions), for the past 4 years. She has also been appointed as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Mr. George Adjei-Ampofo is the Portfolio Finance Manager, Ghana (AttAfrica Buildings) at Broll Ghana Limited.

He is the former Finance Manager at Accra Mall Ltd., where he oversaw the finance function at West Hills Mall, Accra Mall and Achimota Retail Centre.