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Yaw Owusu |
Chief Executive Officer
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Yaw Owusu founded Gateway Innovations Ltd to develop and manage the first technology park in Ghana. The company finalized a joint-ventured deal in 2007 with Xalles Limited (Washington, DC) to build Ghana Cyber City in Accra. Mr. Owusu co authored the book Modernising Commonwealth Governments, published by the Commonwealth Business Publications, London, England (2004) and available on Amazon.com. The book outlines the role of technology parks and incubation in transforming Africa's IT economy.
Mr. Owusu has presented papers on innovation in emerging African markets at international business summits in the last 10 years, including the 11th MIT Global Startup Workshop, Madrid, Spain and the 8th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Owusu worked in Washington, DC for General Electric and IBM as project manager before joining the technology unit of Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division in New York. Mr. Owusu studied in the Executive MBA program at Columbia Business School, 2001-2002 and majored in Mathematics and Economics at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. He earned a certificate in Planning, Developing and Managing Technology Parks in 2007 from the Shanghai International Business Incubator, China. |
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