The SOFTtribe Team
Key Personnel
We've won a number of awards, including the prestigious Millennium Excellence Awards for IT in 2005 (also nominated in 2000). The company has been featured on BBC, CNN and the IEEE Magazine (of the United States) amongst others. Our key personnel are profiled below.
Chairman
Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse
Herman is a software engineer by profession. 19 years ago he co-founded the SOFTtribe limited, one of the leading software houses in West Africa. He holds a number of directorships and is an Assessor of the Commercial Court, Ghana. He has won a number of personal awards including Outstanding Ghanaian Professional from the GPA Awards (UK), as well as the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Texas State Alumni Association and Texas State University-San Marcos (USA)—the first and currently only African recipient of the award. Herman has also been a resource person and visiting speaker at the Wharton Business School, Harvard Business Schools, Cambridge University, the University of Ghana, and the TEDGlobal Conference in Arusha, Tanzania, amongst others. The BBC describes Mr Chinery-Hesse as Africa’s Bill Gates.
In his own words, “if Africa misses the current global IT boat there may never again be an opportunity for rapid wealth creation on the continent”.
Chief Executive Officer
Tetteh Antonio
Tetteh is a Chemical Engineer by training and also holds an EMBA with emphasis in Project Management. He is the current chairman of the Information, Communication and Technology subcommittee of the Association of Ghana Industries and doubles as a member of the Association of Ghana Industries Governing Council. He is a director of the Ghana Identification Company.
TopTechnical Director
David Kwamena Bolton
With almost 20 years experience in the ICT industry in the UK and Africa, David is responsible for steering the technical direction of SOFT.
At the age of 15, David founded ACE (UK), which specialised in development of bespoke software applications, eventually specialising in medical software systems for GP’s which were recommended by National Health Service (NHS) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). This gave David huge international publicity due to his young age. He was dubbed in the UK press, the “Computer Whiz kid” and received an official letter of congratulations from the then British Prime Minister.
Upon the formal invitation from the Government of Ghana, David relocated to Ghana from the United Kingdom and founded a software development house, where he specialised in public sector computerisation. He undertook public sector computerisation projects in organisations such as the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, the Ministry of Finance and the Ghana Co-operative Bank. The company later specialised in software-development for Ghanaian banks. During this period he was appointed by the former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, as a board member of the Information Technology Planning Group (ITPG), a group tasked to advise theGhanaian Government on Information Technology policy. He was also appointed a consultant to the State Enterprises Commission (SEC) as an IT analyst.
In the UK, David has worked as a consultant to Woolwich Bank in Kent as an IT Analyst. David is currently also involved in multimedia productions for radio and television.
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Atitsogbui
Chris has a 25 year career in Ghana’s banking sector, specifically SG-SSB. Most of these were spent in internal audit and inspection. Amongst others, he also served term as a Branch Manager, Head of Accounts Department, Head of Inspection and Audit and Chief of Retail Banking/Banking Operations. His last position in SG-SSB was Senior Manager for Strategy.
He then moved on to the manufacturing and communications consulting industries. Chris served as the Chief Accountant of African Concrete Products and the Finance Manager of Stratcomm, an image & marketing consulting firm whose clients include MTN, Barclays Bank, and UNICEF.
Throughout his career, Chris has built a solid body of experience in accounting, finance, banking, credit administration, management, debt collection, and software application and implementation.
Chris is a graduate of the University of Ghana Business School. He holds a BSc. in Administration (Banking & Finance) and also has qualifications in Credit Control Management, Leadership, Auditing, and Financial Products.
TopProjects Manager
Eden Charles Reeves II
With over 20 years of financial industry experience in the USA and Africa, Eden is an IT auditor and technology security expert by profession, with CISSP certification.
Eden’s career began in Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York where he was hired as an EDP Auditor working on process-flow analysis and IT security issues.
Eden subsequently joined TIAA-CREF of New York where he audited mainframe systems as well as the SDLC process of several major software enhancement projects. At Citibank, Eden was involved in a number of key IT audits and SDLCs as Citibank consolidated its data centres from 250 to 50.
He then joined Alliance Capital where he audited and was on the project management teams of a number of systems development and systems migration projects. Eden was also trained as a information systems security professional to complement his auditing and project management skills. After a brief stint with RCN, Eden spent 4 years with Goldman Sachs – Management Controls Department on Wall Street working on the development of program trading and investment banking deal-book systems.
In 2004, Eden and his family moved to Monrovia, Liberia where he was hired as Information Technology Manager at International Bank. He oversaw the migration of the core banking system for a 30-year old legacy system to a robust client-server system. He also oversaw the technology aspects of the retail branch expansion from one to four branches.
Projects Manager
Plummer G.C. Hamilton
With over 20 years total industry experience (in blue-chip organisations within the EU and lately also a 4 year spell in Charge of the Communications and IT section for a UN War crimes tribunal (The Special Court for Sierra Leone)), Plummer Hamilton lists among his achievements:
- Overall responsibility for the implementation & management of all technology requirements for the trial of Charles Taylor (former Liberian president) in the Hague, NL and Sierra Leone for the UN affiliated tribunal.
- Part of the core management team of Compaq Computers responsible for the successful Europe-wide Y2K re-mediation process for all communication equipment for Citibank in Europe.
- Service Implementation and Management of key infrastructure and security projects such as the first Chip and Pin credit card services , secure Wireless LAN and centralised Firewall Implementation projects for the Marks and Spencer retail chain in the UK.
- Directed the outsourcing of British American Tobacco (Germany) IT support to Kuala Lumpur.
- Headed the Gap Analysis team for EDS (NL) for a 22,000+ seat global rollout (client, server and core infrastructure for the Dutch Petrochemical group (DSM).
SOFTtribe Key Personnel
Our Skillset
The SOFTtribe team's areas of expertise include, but aren't limited to:
- The Windows platform
- Microsoft .NET
- C++
- JBuilder
- Databases
- MS SQL Server
- MY-SQL
- Oracle