At KOACH & O (pronounced “Coach”), we operate with a lean, decisive team of domain leaders and strategic thinkers. Our structure is built around clarity of role and precision of execution.
At KOACH & O, our team is structured not just by function but by sector expertise. Each member brings deep, field-tested insight into the industries we advise on. This allows us to move faster, sharpen judgement, and add real value through the lifecycle of an engagement.
Our strength isn't in numbers, it's in deep alignment between expertise and the sectors we advise. Every sector we engage with, we engage with lived experience and strategic intent.
CEO & MD
Kofi Owusu-Acheaw is the Chief Executive and Managing Director of Semper, KOACH & O. Ltd (KOACH & O), the strategy and advisory firm he founded on disciplined thinking, institutional navigation, and long-term value creation. A pan-African industrialist and economist whose foundation combines Economics and International Business Strategy, he has shaped the firm's philosophy: lead with clarity, move with integrity, and align the right people, structures, and timing to unlock outcomes.
A highly experienced change leader, he has a proven record of delivering complex projects across diverse industries in Africa, the United States, and the UAE, with depth across the full value chain of the extractives, finance, energy, infrastructure, security, and development-management sectors, and particular strength in assurance and advisory. Beyond the firm, he builds the capability Africa has too often had to import, having founded ventures in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems on African soil, led a workforce of more than 1,300, coordinated a billion-dollar smart-city programme, and built enterprises spanning private credit, trade, and food security.
Known for a measured, principled approach, Kofi advises across real-economy sectors including agribusiness, logistics and infrastructure, strategic real estate, financial services, and security-focused technology. His conviction is simple: that Africa should produce, not import, the capability that secures its own future.
Chief Operating Officer
Vanessa Appah-Gyamenah is the Chief Operating Officer of Semper, KOACH & O., where she oversees the firm's operations and its investment-systems and financial-analysis capability. An economist and senior financial-software consultant based in Copenhagen, she brings institutional discipline to how the firm runs and how it advises across capital markets, private credit, and portfolio management.
For more than eight years she has implemented and tested SimCorp Dimension, the platform behind many of the world's asset managers, banks, pension funds, insurers, and central banks, spanning private debt, portfolio management, investment structures, and performance analytics. Her consulting spans Europe and Africa, including the Central Bank of Kenya and leading Nordic asset managers and pension funds, and she currently maintains front-office solutions at a major Danish bank.
Her foundation is rigorous and international: a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Ghana, where she was awarded best graduating economics student. A Certified SimCorp Professional, Certified Tester, and Portfolio Management Specialist, she works fluently across financial analysis, data analytics, and agile delivery, on the conviction that disciplined systems and clean data are what let ambition scale.
Group Director, Strategic Partnerships
Crescens Agyeman-Badu is Group Director, Strategic Partnerships at Semper, KOACH & O., working across cross-border investment, foreign direct investment, and trade and equipment financing. An international business-development and FDI specialist with more than fifteen years in the corporate sector, he works where Asian manufacturing capacity, international capital, and African enterprise meet, structuring the financing, dealership, and trade arrangements that turn cross-border interest into operating businesses on the ground. He serves as Chief Investment Officer for the African office of a multinational trade and project-finance firm, leads the executive team of the Afro-Asian Prosperity Forum, and holds an MSc in International Business from the University of Ghana Business School.
Group Head of People & Culture
Abena Aidoo is Group Head of People & Culture at Semper, KOACH & O., focused on people and culture, talent strategy, and organizational effectiveness across the group and its ventures. A Chartered Human Resource professional with more than a decade across port terminal operations, heavy equipment, quick-service retail, finance, and shipping, she builds and owns the people systems that carry the firm's operating culture, aligning how the group hires, develops, rewards, and retains talent with strategy as it scales into global markets. Her remit runs the full human-capital lifecycle, from workforce planning and performance architecture to succession, governance, and cross-border mobility, and her coaching practice is built on strengthening managers' judgment rather than their reliance on HR. She holds an MBA in International Trade from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and is a Chartered Member of CIHRM Ghana.
Group Director, Risk & Compliance
Janice Neequaye is a governance, risk and compliance professional with more than six years of experience supporting executive offices and managing sensitive corporate processes. She has moved from running the office of a President and CEO into a dedicated compliance role, where her work centres on detecting risk and putting corrective controls in place. She handles confidential documentation and high-level correspondence with the discretion the work requires, and she is currently reading for a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), which is strengthening the legal and regulatory grounding behind her compliance practice.
Advisor, Capital Raise & Project Finance
Dylan Pooley is an advisor at Semper, KOACH & O., focused on capital raising, project finance, and cross-border deal structuring. A finance executive with a thirty-year track record spanning global investment banking and African renewable-energy development, he built and led equity capital markets and risk businesses at Citigroup and ICBC Standard Bank, underwriting well over US$1 billion in capital-markets risk. As Managing Director of ReGEN Energy Group, he drives capital raising across solar PV, biofuel, and other advanced energy technologies in partnership with US technical partners including TGS Renewable Solutions, bringing a deep network across Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Advisor, Energy, Climate & Sustainability
Enam Akoetey-Eyiah is an advisor at Semper, KOACH & O., focused on energy, climate, and sustainable investment. A senior adviser with two decades across UK, European, and African energy markets, climate finance, carbon markets, and renewable-energy procurement, she works where policy, markets, finance, and implementation meet, advising governments, utilities, corporates, investors, and development institutions. She is Founder and Executive Director of Africa Clean Energy Buyers and formerly Regional Director for Africa at the International Tracking Standard Foundation. She has served on the UNFCCC Article 6.4 Methodological Expert Panel and the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Technical Working Group, and is completing an LLM in Environment and Energy Law at the University of Birmingham.
Advisor, Infrastructure, Deal Structuring & Energy Sector Value Chain
Nana Ama Ampomah is an advisor at Semper, KOACH & O., focused on economic policy, financial strategy, and value-chain design across the energy and infrastructure sectors. A research economist, policy analyst, and senior banker with more than twelve years of experience, she has built credit-scoring and risk models to Basel and IFRS 9 standards, led energy-sector value-chain studies across oil, gas, and power, and designed the delivery desk for a government-backed business-relief programme. She works in economic modelling, credit-risk analytics, and the translation of complex data into strategic policy, and holds a Master of Arts in Economic Policy Management from the University of Ghana, with professional qualifications in banking (ACIB) and accountancy (ACCA).