Team Ghana
Team Lead
Eyram Tawia
eyram@letiarts.com/eyram.tawia@gmail.com
Eyram Tawia is CEO and Cofounder of Leti Arts, an interactive game studio that creates Afrocentric mobile games and comics. His love for comics and computer games helped to spur his interest to learn to program back in junior high school as he wanted to make the comics he drew as a youngster come to life on the computer screen. He is convinced that Africa will make a salient contribution to the world of game development and believes that this will create new job opportunities that will boost Africa's GDP.
Eyram is a frequent speaker at tech conferences and has had stints at the Game Developers Conference and the US-Africa Business Leaders Summit. He has won several awards for his contribution to the industry including the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneurs Media Awards (2012), Vodafone Ghana and Global Appstar 2014 competition and the Africa Entrepreneurship Award. In his bid to promote African success, he published his ‘unfolding’ biography ‘Uncompromising Passion: The Humble Beginnings of an African Video Games Industry’ documenting his journey while aiming to inspire young Africans to tell our stories
He studied at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in Kumasi, Ghana and at the Meltwater Foundation, where he was a Software Teaching Fellow, inspiring others while also working on his own projects. He is also a Mandela Washington Fellow, a member of the Harambe Alliance and a World Summit Award Winner.
Head of partnerships
Foster Akugri
foster.akugri@gmail.com
Foster Awintiti Akugri is the Founder & President of the Hacklab Foundation. He is currently the Incubator Manager for the Stanbic Bank Incubator Ghana (SBIncubator Ghana), an initiative of Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited, a member of the Standard Bank Group. He was the youngest participant at the World Economic Forum’s 48th Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland in 2018. He also serves as a member of the Malaika Coalition, a committee mandated by the Africa Regional Strategy Group of the World Economic Forum to work on the Africa 4.0 Initiative.
He also serves on the Africa Growth Platform Working Group and was part of the team that leads the Digital Campaign Launch of the Platform during the World Economic Forum on Africa - Cape Town in September 2019. He was listed among 30 under 30 Future of Ghana Pioneers Class of 2019. Also named Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader Class of 2019 by the Policy Center for the Global South, Morocco. In 2019, he was also named amongst Top 100 Most Influential Young Ghanaians and Top 4 Most Influential Young Ghanaians in Science & Technology by Avance Media. He also received the President's Outstanding Youth Prize in Science and Technology in 2019 by the Millennium Excellence Foundation. In 2020, He was listed amongst Top 50 Young CEOs in Ghana by Avance Media. His keen interest in digital transformation in Africa led him to currently pursuing an MBA in Business Process Management and certification in Six Sigma Black Belt. He graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a degree in Computer Science. He has over 7 years experience in entrepreneurship and business development. He has worked with tech startups for the last 4 years, helping them develop MVPs and Product-Market fit strategies.
He is a passionate advocate who believes in harnessing STEM to advance development in Africa by ensuring greater participation by young people. His team emerged First Runner-up in the Stanbic Money App Challenge in 2016 with financial management and literacy App, ‘Sikapong’ meaning ‘Money School’. They later went on to win the Tertiary Category for the MTN Apps Challenge in 2016 with TeleKare, telemedicine AI based mobile and web application for primary and advisory healthcare services. He is a public speaker focusing on leadership, technology, entrepreneurship, smart industries, ecosystem development, digital transformation, education, youth engagement models and Concept of the African Dream. He is a 2x TEDx Speaker and has delivered over 40 keynotes.
Head of Operations
Jennifer Ohemeng
jennifer@ambitiousafrica.org
Jennifer Ohemeng is an optimistic, diverse and creative individual with knowledge and experience in Human Resource Management, Event Organising, communication, social media marketing, event hosting and an interest in personal safety and Security. She has been involved in the Finnish startup ecosystem for several years, combined with familiarity of the Finnish culture and way of life.
She continuously hopes to contribute to ventures that can change peoples lives both in Africa and the Nordics while developing myself. Contributing as a community coordinator and a member of Ambitious team Ghana
Head of marketing
Jesse Jojo Johnson
thatguy@jessejojohnson.com
Jesse Johnson is a software developer, photographer, writer and co-founder of Asoriba, a church management and payment service provider. He is an alumnus of MEST Africa (2015) and Techstars (2016). Jesse has a decade of experience working with creatives from the literary and performance arts through a number of non-profit organisations, including FlashFictionGhana, the Poetry Foundation Ghana and the Writers Project of Ghana. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Choral Music Ghana, the only classical music review site in the country. Jesse's beliefs in individuality, creative expression and authenticity are fundamental to his world view.
Community manager
Tabariyeng Lengsie Douglas
douglastabs77@gmail.com
Tabariyeng Lengsie Douglas is a talented, positive thinking young man who sees problems as solutions. Innovative and creative as he continuously finds new ways of doing things. He attained his high school education from St. Cyprian Minor Seminary/Senior High School Sawla. Currently a student at the University of Ghana studying Mathematics, Economics and Statistics.
To him, youth empowerment, development and growth are priority in every society. Hoping entrepreneurship will be made part of studies at all levels from basic to higher levels of education. He contributes to Ambitious Africa as a community coordinator and is very excited about helping Team Ghana achieve their goals.