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.