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ACCRA, GHANA

P.O. Box La463, La – Accra, Ghana

Mobile: +233-244-127503 | +233-244-120683

Email: tekpa@live.com | Twitter: @LLTekpa

LONLON TEKPA

Biography:

LONLON TEKPA, was born on Sunday November 12, 1978; – the 36 years old single Ghanaian is an

Entrepreneur, a Senior Development Consultant and a multiple awards-winning Innovator with over

a decade deep Senior Management hands-on experience. With an equated postgraduate competency

in deep Information Communications Technology (ICT), Innovations, Development Studies and

Project Management Profession (having being trained severally and over the years by major

technology giants such as: IBM, Microsoft, McAfee, etc), LONLON presently serves as the Chief

Executive Officer of Hypersoft Ghana Limited, a company he first founded in January 2001 and later

restructured in July 2007 to deliver Total and Expert ICT Solutions, Innovations and Project

Management Professional Services in the corporation’s quest to contribute its quota to addressing

developmental and growth challenges in Africa. LONLON holds a Diploma in Business Studies

(Accounting Option) from Accra Polytechnic in 1995, a Diploma in Computer Programming from the

West African Computer Science Institute (WACSI), and an Associate Degree in Computer Systems

Design from the Association of Computer Professional from the United Kingdom through WACSI in

Ghana in 1999. The former HEAD OF ICT at CARE INTERNATIONAL GULF OF GUINEA is known

among his colleagues as THE MAN OF THE SITUATION with excellent FMR yearly appraisal scores,

is also the recipient of a personal congratulatory citation by CARE International’s President PETER

BELL in the year 2006. LONLON has deep passions for Innovations, Leadership and Development –

and a much deeper concerns for accelerated growth in Africa. While being engaged (01/2011 –

01/2012) as a Senior Consultant at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP),

LONLON contributed tremendously to the 5-Member Task-Force Team’s Works to successfully

unravel the challenges of disbursement of donor funds into projects in Ghana culminating into an

AID EFFECTIVENESS Framework being developed by the team for the country. Having engaged all

of the country’s development partners during the one year mandate of the MOFEP SPM Task-Force,

LONLON now clearly sees HOW BEST things must be done (especially in the public sectors) to

squarely address growth and developmental challenges across Africa, and to deliver absolute

RESULTS at all times. LONLON has the fluency of English and French languages. LONLON is

presently a Key Expert in the in-country European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement

(EPA) Strategy Accompanying Measures Development for Ghana as one of four (4) Local

Consultants contracted by the EU TRAQUE Programme under the oversight of the Ministry of

Trade and Industry (MOTI); following a successful May 05, 2015 High Cost of Credit Forum

organization for the Ministry. MR. TEKPA is a candidate in the 7th cohort of the China Europe

International Business School (CEIBS) for the world’s 10th ranked Global Executive MBA Program in

Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. He has also scheduled himself (January 2017 – March

2018) for the Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program (AMP) and the Program for

Leadership Development (PLD); after which he will proceed to the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT) for the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership

(April/June 2018 – June 2019). LONLON seeks Senior Level Consulting Engagements in Management,

Development, ICT, Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Innovations, Job Creation, SME/Private

Sector, Public Sector, Lecturing, and Business Processes re-Engineering in Africa and across the globe.

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Active Start-ups and Latest Innovations:

A Business Plan is your passport to

entrepreneurship... Poor Business Plans are largely to blame for the inability of Small

and Medium Businesses (SMBs) to access credit from Commercial

Banks in Sub-Sahara Africa. Also, the High Cost of Credit in Ghana

persists because SMBs have not paid particular attention to proper

business planning – according to a recent research finding by Prof.

John Rand of the University of Copenhagen.

Your decision to get a Business Plan from FDIafrica LLC goes hand in hand with what it means to be

an Entrepreneur: hiring people to get the job done quickly and effectively. If you are an expert chair

builder, does it make sense that you have to be an expert business plan writer as well? At FDIafrica

LLC, we claim to be experts at just that one thing: writing business plans and raising the funding your

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move your business forward. Our ecosystem holds highly committed continental and global funders

(investors and financiers) who are waiting to provide the right funding to your business in the form

of foreign direct investment, joint-venture and debt financing.

Innovations | Technologies | Solutions

MobileApps - Software development - Cloud Computing –

Websites and Web Solutions – everything ICT, everything

Innovations, everything Technologies, and everything

Solutions.

Entrepreneurial Consulting – Development Consulting –

Management Consulting – Business Turnaround Consulting –

International Consulting – Project Management Consulting –

Global Lobbying – and Public Speaking...

The Smart Grid Innovation

The Smart Grid Innovation seeks to build a Smart Grid Microchip embeddable unto the

motherboard of electricity prepaid meters, that can easily receive and execute smarter machine

instructions in the forms of programming codes in the Innovator’s quest to assist power distributing

authorities in Ghana and across Africa to smartly handle electricity delivery and loads shedding to

their highly democratized populace with ease and fun, while at the same time delivering constant

growth to their respective economies, especially during crisis seasons (i.e., Low Energy Seasons) –

AND ultimately ending the DUMSOR Crisis in Africa starting from Ghana.

The multiSIM MobileApp

The multiSIM MobileApp is designed to completely shift the focus of the telecommunications

industry like never before imagined. With development now at 80% completion, the multiSIM

MobileApp will allow mobile phone users to securely activate up to 10 mobile numbers on a single

SIM SmartPhone, make and receive calls via all 10 lines, and ultimately benefiting from the use of

mobile devices like never before experienced. Why hold multiple mobile phones in the hand at ago

while you can configure up to 10 mobile numbers on one Smart Phone using this great multiSIM

MobileApp? The True Revolution of the telecommunication industry has just begun!...

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Professional Experience:

MINISTRY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (June 2015 – till date)

CONSULTANT/SECRETARY, EMINENT PERSONS’ WORKING GROUP – Accra, Ghana Responsible for the overall running of the newly setup and soon to be officially inaugurated

Eminent Persons’ Working Group mandated to successfully translate the High Cost of

Credit Forum’s recommendations into time-bound actions and real results going forward.

Responsible for all data gathering, facts findings, research works, agenda settings, notes-

taking and presentations during the Working Group’s deliberations.

MINISTRY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (March 2015 – May 2015)

FORUM CONSULTANT – Accra, Ghana Responsible for the successful organization of the May 05, 2015 all stakeholders non-partisan

Forum on the High Cost of Credit in Ghana: its implications and the ways forward.

Responsible for the successful development of the Forum Report.

MINISTRY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (March 2015 – June 2015)

LOCAL CONSULTANT AND KEY EXPERT ON THE EU EPA STRATEGY – Accra, Ghana The development of an in-country EPA Strategy and Accompanying Measures for Ghana;

o To prepare Ghana to derive maximum benefit from the signed European Union

Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) o To assure stakeholders that Ghana is prepared for the EPA; o To improve dialogue between private and public sectors on the EPA; o To support vital and promising economic sectors; o To develop an intra-regional Trade beneficial to Ghana;

The design of the EPA Strategy implementation roadmap, Presentation of the EPA Strategy to

stakeholders in all 10 regions of Ghana and the design of an EPA Governance Structure; The finalization of the in-country EPA Strategy and onward presentation to stakeholders.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC PLANNING (01/2011 – 01/2012)

CONSULTANT (MOFEP Special Project Management Task-Force) – Accra, Ghana Monitor and report on progress of implementation of all donor funded projects

Engage the Development Partners and MDAs on project implementation bottlenecks and

formulate strategies to overcome challenges.

Ensure a scale-up of disbursement of funding for all donor projects.

CARE INTERNATIONAL GULF OF GUINEA (05/2004 – 07/2006)

IT MANAGER – Ghana, Togo, Benin Overall supervision of ICT and communication systems of the Gulf of Guinea Mission across three (3)

West African countries as well as ICT supports to other CARE OFFICES across Africa.

Oversee and support IT management in the Mission

Supervise day-to-day operations of the Information System,

Participate in specific IS strategies in the CO including periodic plans related to the

enhancement of the information systems, networks, development of new applications,

enhancement of existing applications and training of staff

Develop guidelines, policies, procedures and standards for IS implementation and

functioning plus supervise the development of specific application-related policies and

procedures.

Participate in preparation of annual budgets for IS related activities for central and project

offices.

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Administer IS budget related to equipment, systems development contracts and training

Participate in the selection of IT consultants and service providers

Provide technical advice and coordinate all hardware/software related procurement and

maintenance in the Mission

Identify areas where assistance of outside consultants is required, prepare terms of reference

Provide “helpdesk support” to users in the Mission and keep them abreast on technological

advancement in the world of ICT

Maintain a technical inventory of all computers and accessories within the entire GoG

Mission

Manage licenses, and guarantees

Be a point of contact with CARE International HQ on all IT matters

Administer the Mission’s networks and system applications

Manage and administer the Main Office LAN and Servers including users and groups

management, security and virus protection, system enhancement, new services, data

backups, software supports

Administer the FIS Server including setting-up of Users, management of system, security,

management of menus, data access security, data integrity and troubleshooting

Review the requirements for hardware, accessibility to various data sources and databases

inside and outside CARE Gulf of Guinea and plan accordingly for their enhancements,

stability and responsiveness of the Local Area Networks and connectivity

Design, develop and support the standard workstation and other communication platforms

to provide a stable technical environment

Assess, plan and implement electronic linkages [remote access] from CARE sub-offices to the

central HQ LAN and databases

Act as the Backup for the FIS Database Administrator

Internet/Intranet and Communication Technologies

Oversee the electronic mail systems in the whole Mission

Review and recommend for improvement in the Mission’s communication systems

Manage network resources for staff accessing Internet services

Using Internet and establishing Remote Access Services with MS-Exchange mailing, provide

remote login services for accessing LAN service from sub-offices and homes

Advise on the use of web-technologies to distribute corporate information to all staff-

members

Create, develop and maintain Gulf of Guinea web portal

Assist and participate in the information sharing management, the website administration,

journals and reports’ editing

CARE – Applications | Software | Database Administration & Training

Design, develop and implement corporate system applications including programs/projects’

monitoring systems, substantive management and monitoring systems

Design management reports as required using reporting tools such as Crystal and modify the

standard Scala reports, query capabilities, etc…

Supervise for upgrading/revising custom software, and provide in-house maintenances

Supervise migration of existing systems to new environments after comprehensive studies of

the implications of such migrations

Supervise the preparation of specific application-related policies and procedures for data

administration

o Organize/supervise IS related training activities

o Participate in the training and orientation of new employees and provide clarification

and information to employees on the Mission IT Systems in place and procedures

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Ensure preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, diagnosis of computer problems and repairs

Provide preventive maintenance plans for all computer hardware

Troubleshoot and assist/support users [helpdesk]

Diagnose and repair faulty hardware

Monitor vendors’ licenses and warrantees/guarantees and follow up on devices sent out for

repairs

Community or Volunteer Works (non-paid):

Personal Philanthropist Outreach to two (2) abandoned Single Mothers in Ghana:

- REBECCA (2007 - 2009) with a Lebanese Born Child KK during her Senior High School

education at La Presec in Accra, Ghana. I took total care for the child and mother from

January 2007 till October 2009 when I got the Mother and Child first reconciled to her parents

who rejected her during the pregnancy times and also with the Lebanese Father who rejected

the pregnancy through WAJU and paternity test.

- ADWOA (2010 – till date) had a little girl AMA from Senior High School and abandoned by

her Aunts after her mother died. Her father a struggling hustler in the United Kingdom

without right papers and no real source of regular income to support his daughter fully. I

constantly took it upon myself to provide for her and the little girl. In 2014, Adwoa will be

graduating with fine First Degree colors in Marketing Studies from DataLink University

College in Tema, Ghana.

Education & Training:

The Royal Centre for Public Speaking (May 2015)

- RC Speaking and Beyond Certification (Modules covered are: The Art of Public Speaking,

Effective Communication Techniques, Presentation Mastery, and Professional Speaking

Development)

International Business Machine (IBM) Corporation, Accra – Ghana (July 2012)

- IBM Systems Storage Solutions Top Gun Certification (Modules covered: IBM System Storage

Strategy, All IBM Storage Solutions, Competitive Landscape, and Value Selling Arguments.

NIIT GHANA (2000)

- Certificate in Object-Oriented Programming using C++

West African Computer Science Institute / Association of Computer Professionals United

Kingdom (August 1999)

- Diploma in Computer Programming

- ACP-UK Diploma in Computer Systems Design

Accra Polytechnic, Accra – Ghana (1995)

- Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting Option)

Collège d’Enseignement Général de Djidjolé, Lomé – Togo (1992)

- Brévet d’Etudes du Premier Cycle

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Awards & Honors:

G20/ASHOKA REGNITION OF MY INNOVATION, October 2010

- THE G20 formally recognized the importance of MR. TEKPA’s SME RECORDS BANK

CLOUD INNOVATION as an important Mobile and Climate-friendly Innovation for roll-out.

WORLD BANK/infoDev, Helsinki – Finland, May/June 2011

- MR. TEKPA was selected a winner of the World Bank/infoDev Global Top 50 Competition for

his SME RECORDS BANK CLOUD INNOVATION Project.

Skills:

Power Supports Engineer for Microsoft BackOffice products and Microsoft Office

2000/XP/2003/2007/2010 Suite of applications; power tailor-made software development using MS

ACCESS; power system administration (windows NT/2000/Server 2003/2008 .NET Framework); good

knowledge of e-commerce and online networking; power supports for computer hardware & other

office devices (printers/scanners/telephony/ups); power social media user; excellent know-how of

Accounting concepts & principles and of records keeping; power report writing and business

proposals development skill-sets; and the fluency of FRENCH and ENGLISH languages.

Over 10 Years of Senior Management Level deep hands-on experience in the ICT industry

Ability to Learn and Deliver through self-study

Power Desktop Support Specialist

Excellent Team Leadership Skills

Excellent communication, interpersonal, team-work and organizational skills

Excellent Project Management Skills

Fluency of FRENCH and ENGLISH Languages

Innovations crafted:

Some of the IDEAS that MR. TEKPA had so far innovated include:

- THE SME Records Bank Cloud Innovation – www.SMERB.com.gh

o Erase lending risks that are associated to the SME Sectors in Africa

o Position the SME Sectors in Africa for faster and easy access to finance and markets

o Widen the tax-nests of African Governments to cover all SME Sector Players

o Create millions of blue-chip and business advisory services Jobs for the continent’s huge

unemployed Youths, Graduates..

o Accelerate continental growth

- THE HACKER LAB Project – www.TheHackerLab.com.gh

o Build the right Cyber Security Experts and e-Business Professionals for Corporate Africa

(private and public sectors)

o Address Corporate Cyber Security Issues across the African continent

o Securely put the African continent on the global Cyber Space vis-à-vis e-Commerce, e-

Business, online trading, e-Payment and e-Cards platforms – starting with Ghana.

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- THE African Fund For Accelerated Developments – AFFAD – www.AFFAD.com.gh

o AFFAD will seek to raise funds in the form of equity from Africans of all walks and life (i.e.

students, professionals, youths and teens, parents and kids, entrepreneurs, corporate

entities, etc...) to carry out developmental programs on the continent that will ultimately help

erase poverty and misery from among our people.

o Raise US$10trillion from Africans in equity over 10 consecutive years through the launch of

yearly IPO to accelerate growth and developments of the African continent

o Help erase abject poverty, misery and underdevelopments from the face of the African

continent

o Ensure total food security on the continent at all times

o Make available affordable and highly energy-efficient houses to all Africans in their lifetime

o Embark on solid infrastructure development programs and business ventures that will bring

about speedy growth in Africa

o Create millions of blue-chip, white-color and artisan Jobs for the continent’s huge unemployed

Youths and Graduates.

- THE Business Driven PMO Roll-Out Program for all MDAs in Ghana

o Approved by His Excellency LATE President John Evans Atta-Mills for implementation in

Ghana prior to his departure, this Innovation seeks to deploy Business Driven Project

Management Offices (PMOs) in all the country’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies

(MDAs) to position them for better projects and programs management at all times hence

accelerated developments

o This project is designed for easy replication across AFRICA as we turn the public sectors on the

continent more efficient, well focused and with the deliver-now-culture at all levels of

governance towards holistic growth.

- THE University of Innovations – www.UI.edu.gh

o Combine the efforts and strengthens of Africa’s Top 5 Best-rated Higher Learning Institutions

from each of the present 54 member countries i.e. The Best Musketeers – to deliver a world-

class academic institution (i.e. UI) whose focus will be to create the Best Thinkers, Leaders,

Innovators, Inventors, Transformers, ChangeMakers, Scientists, Industrialists, Researchers and

Academia, Entrepreneurs, etc; who will lead Africa to greater heights in this century and

beyond.

- THE Ghana Smart ID Project

o The Ghana SMART ID Project’s goal is to create a public-private partnership between

Hypersoft Ghana Limited & M2M Group (Morocco) as the private partners AND the Ghana

National Identification Authority (NIA), to ensure that a single Smart National Identification

Card is designed, manufactured and deployed across Ghana, and utilised by the following

FOUR (4) user agencies for their identification needs. When deployed with a highly secured

birth & death registry, this project will eliminate wastes in the country’s systems and

processes; it will properly secure the identity of all citizens and foreign residents towards

crime-fighting, better growth planning, proper distribution of limited national resources, etc:

National Identification Authority (NIA),

National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA),

Driver’s Vehicle and License Authority (DVLA), and the

Electoral Commission (EC).

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- THE Ghana Decides Project - www.GhanaDecides.gov.gh

o The vision of the Ghana Decides Project is to ensure that Ghana attains a higher middle income

country status by the year 2015 and begins steps towards an Industrial and a Wealth Status by

ensuring that all committed donor funds and national resources are judiciously utilized to

warrant value for money and that, this reflects in the quality of life of the citizenry.

o The Project aims at providing greater visibility, accountability and full citizenry participation

in the execution of developmental projects and programmes at all times i.e. from conception or

initiating of projects, to designs, funds sourcing and funds terms; from project planning and

execution, to disbursement or release of funds; from monitoring, evaluations and project

controlling, through to successful project closure ensuring that renegade projects are never

allowed at any given time to run according to their own agenda, thereby wasting national

resources which may lead to less development.

- THE GOG Assets Management Systems

The Government of Ghana (GOG) is a major Assets Buyer with the purchase of new assets featuring in

its annual budgets year after year. Billions of US dollars from the country’s coffers either in tax payers’

contributions, or in national resources (other forms of Internally Generated Funds) or in development

partners’ funding (Loans and Grants) are directed towards assets acquisitions yearly for public sector

organizations (i.e. MDAs and MMDAs - Ministries, Departments and Agencies). These assets

acquisitions are well-intended to ensure better productivity and to enhance efficiency in the public

sector. Unfortunately, the country does not have any proper records management and tracking of its

assets to ensure accountability and global credit-worthiness. And the intelligent bad nuts are quickly

taking advantage of this lack of proper records management and tracking systems – and are taking

undue possession of the country’s assets under broad daylights. The intended GOG Assets

Management Systems will:

o Be able to properly track all of the country’s assets at all times so as to eliminate undue lootings of

them by greedy citizens.

o Assist in the justification process of new assets acquisitions as well as the maintenance costs for

existing assets by MDAs and MMDAs during annual budget preparations and reviews i.e. self-

justify annual budgets to ensure adequate allocation of funds in acquiring new assets and more

importantly, in properly maintaining existing ones.

o Accelerate the country’s procurement processes through easy integration with the PPA’s

eProcurement platform to the point where new acquisitions by public sector agencies (i.e.

Government) go successfully through the laid down procurement processes till they finally become

assets and recognized as such e.g. a GETFund School Block is not immediately an asset until all

construction works are completed and the finished school block handed over to the Institution or

Government.

o Enhance accountability, justification and transparency through easy integration into the present

GIFMIS Financial Management Platform at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning

(MOFEP) for proper valuations of the country’s assets i.e. depreciation, appreciation as well as

proper disposal of assets.

o Ultimately improve the Global Credit Rating of the country, to reduce lending risks (i.e. to better

the global credit classification of the country – e.g. AA, B+) and to eliminate costly assumptions in

our fiscal projections.

- THE GOOGOL Foundation

Delivering the 3H in Education in Africa:

Head more educated minds

Heart more transformed minds

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Hands ready to fly graduates with deep hands-on and practical experiences thereby totally

bridging the gap between industry and academia at all times. Graduates that have been truly

GROOMED to deliver RESULTS!...

Influencing Quality Excellence in Education in Africa:

Providing adequate funding supports towards facilities’ developments and expansions in our

Educational Institutions

Providing adequate funding and technical supports towards curricula re-structuring and towards

successfully delivering those curricula (with continuous improvements in mind and at work) in our

Educational Institutions in this century and beyond.

Positioning Africa for Good Governance (both public and private sectors):

Large Middle-Income Group who cannot be bought or sold – fully focused on giving their all to

lifting the continent to attain greater heights in this century and beyond

Highly Competent Delivering Teams at all times

Good Governance and Accountability will translate into accelerated growth.

Delivering Innovations, Entrepreneurships and Jobs Creation to Africa:

Hosting, as well as Financially and Technically supporting Highly Adventurous, Big Dreamers and

Big Risks Taking Africans who will be developing the NEXT BIGGEST SOLUTIONS to the

challenges that confront the world we live in.

Creating billions of very stable and well-paid Jobs in Africa and across the Globe.

AND last but not least, providing Scholarships to Brilliant but Needy Students (Africans) in Educational

Institutions across Africa and across the globe!

- THE FDI Africa Project

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) AFRICA, as the name implies, seeks to deliver foreign direct

investments (fdi) into projects, ideas, programs, innovations, initiatives and efforts being rolled-out in

Africa by corporations, institutions, organizations and individuals from both the public and private

sectors, and across all industry verticals, in the Team’s quest to contribute its quota in accelerating the

growth and development of the Africa continent.

o Professional Business Plans designing for projects, ideas, innovations, initiatives, and efforts

seeking foreign direct investments and intended for roll-out or already rolling out in Africa; as

well as

o Funds sourcing for clients’ projects from across the globe through an ECO-system of lenders,

investors, donors and financiers.

Authorship:

MR. TEKPA is an upcoming Ghanaian Best-selling Author with seven (7) Leadership, Management,

IT Governance, Innovations, Project Management, Continental Development, and Christian

manuscripts currently undergoing editing and publishing in the United States of America.

Membership:

MR. TEKPA is a member of the US-based and world’s largest association for the project management

profession i.e. the Project Management Institute® (PMI®) and also a member of its Local Chapter in

Ghana (PMI® Ghana Chapter). He is a member of the Ghana Association of Software and IT

Services Companies (GASSCOM).

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BELOW: Lonlon Tekpa delivering his well-crafted presentation on the huge benefits and

opportunities that the EU EPA presents to Ghana AND how the country should swiftly, assertively

and proactively seize them to its advantage for real growth and accelerated development – during the

Western Regional Consultative Workshop held on June 11, 2015 at BUSUA Beach Hotel, Takoradi...

BELOW: The Person Lonlon Tekpa during an African Union Studies Summit on the VISION 2063