Kofi is a corporate and investment banker with over two decades’ experience, driving innovation and strategic leadership in capital markets, investment management, risk management, derivatives structuring, project and infrastructure finance, syndications, strategy and people management.

Kofi has demonstrated visionary leadership in building GCB Capital Ltd (GCL) from a start-up, shaping its strategy, organisational structure and operational growth. He leads a high-performing team executing landmark transactions, designing and launching market-responsive solutions aligned with Ghana’s national development goals. Under his direction, GCB Capital established and manages a novel affordable housing scheme which has delivered over 300 affordable housing units, including the greenfield development of a 204-unit gated community. He also led the creation of Habitat & Shelter Ltd, a strategic subsidiary company for affordable housing construction finance, and the conceptualisation, launch and management of the Ghana Amalgamated Mutual Fund PLC to implement a Government-backed bailout programme for clients of 50 collapsed fund management companies.

Prior to joining GCL, Kofi worked with Barclays (now Absa) Bank Ghana where he rose from a Trainee on the Barclays Africa Leadership Programme to lead the distribution of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange solutions to Financial Institutions, Corporate, Retail and Sovereign clients in the Corporate & Investment Banking (Markets) space. He also provided derivative/hedging solutions for interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity price risks, and led/co-led the structuring and execution of multi-million-dollar project finance, capital market and derivative transactions for corporates and the sovereign. Kofi also had prior experience with Databank Asset Management Ltd. and Boulders Advisors Ltd.

Kofi holds an MBA (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA), Master of Laws (University of Law, UK), Bachelor of Laws (Central University, Ghana) and B.Sc. Administration (Accounting), (University of Ghana). He also holds PMD-Finance from Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria (South Africa), a Dealing Certificate from Association Cambiste Internationale (ACI) and is a licensed Investment Advisor by the Securities and Exchange Commission.