Herman Chinery-Hesse

Herman Chinery-Hesse
Born

1965 (age 50–51)


Ireland

Citizenship Ghana
Alma mater Texas State University
Occupation founder of SOFTtribe
Children 2

Herman Chinery-Hesse is a Ghanaian software entrepreneur and the founder of SOFTtribe, the largest software company in Ghana.[1] He is popularly known as the Bill Gates of Ghana.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Chinery-Hesse also made the list of 15 Black STEM Innovators.[9]

Education

Herman was educated at Mfantsipim School.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Newsmaker". BBC. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "New Africa: how an entrepreneur became 'the Bill Gates of Ghana'". theguardian. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "BBC News - African Dream: Ghana's Herman Chinery-Hesse". Bbc.co.uk. 2011-09-06. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  4. ↑ "Profile: Herman Chinery-Hesse - "Africa's father of Technology"". The Habari Network. 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  5. ↑ "BBC News - The mobile technologies making Africa cheaper and safer". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  6. ↑ "Africa's 'father of technology' on sparking a tech revolution - CNN.com". Edition.cnn.com. 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  7. ↑ Barber, Lionel (2012-04-17). "Twelve days in west Africa: Accra, Ghana". FT.com. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  8. ↑ "Meet the Bill Gates of Ghana -Herman Chinery-Hesse - e-commerce in Africa". Inc.com. 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  9. ↑ "Ghana's Chinery-Hesse makes list of 15 Black STEM Innovators". Citifmonline.com. Citi FM. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  10. ↑ "Herman Chinery-Hesse, Africa's 'father of technology'". Daily Maverick. 2011-09-15. Retrieved 2015-03-04.



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