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.
Founder & Managing Partner
Kofi Owusu-Acheaw is the Founder and Managing Partner of Semper, KOACH & O. Ltd (KOACH & O), a strategy and advisory firm built on disciplined thinking, institutional navigation, and long-term value creation. A pan-African industrialist and economist, he has shaped the firm's philosophy: lead with clarity, move with integrity, and align the right people, structures, and timing to unlock outcomes.
Beyond the firm, he builds the capability Africa has too often had to import. He has 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 across the extractives, finance and infrastructure value chains, with a wider portfolio 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.
COO & Managing Partner
Vanessa Appah-Gyamenah is the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner 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 five 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 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.
Advisor
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
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).
Advisory Executive
Crescens Agyeman-Badu is an advisor 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.
Risk & Compliance Executive
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.