Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh is a

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ian business leader and the founder and CEO of Brainwave Tech Africa, a technology company focused on innovative solutions for the African continent. She was previously

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’s Strategic Partnership Lead for Africa. Prior to founding Brainwave Tech Africa and Microsoft, she served as the executive director/regional head for

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North, East, and West Africa from 2020 to 2021. She is the former country general manager for Ghana. She is the first woman to become country director of

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and the first African woman to be appointed regional general manager.

Education

Kyerematen-Jimoh holds a BA in Marketing and French. She is an alumna of

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and

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Guildhall College. She is also an old student of

Wesley Girls' High School Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central Region, Ghana, Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist Church in Singapore, Methodist minis ...

and

Achimota School Achimota School (Help:IPA/English, /ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ), formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra Reg ...

in Ghana.

Career

Kyerematen-Jimoh has 20 years of extensive working experience in the financial services and technology industries in Africa and Europe. In 2011, she joined IBM as the territory marketing manager responsible for

West Africa. She later moved to

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as strategy leader for IBM's Central, East and West Africa operations. Kyerematen-Jimoh served as a member of the governing board of the Bank of Ghana from 2021 to 2025, chaired by Dr.

Ernest Addison Ernest Kwamina Yedu Addison (born 1963) is a Ghanaian economist who served as the 15th governor of the Bank of Ghana. He had previously worked at the same central bank as director of research from 2003 to 2011, and as an economist at the Africa ...

. The board is responsible for the formulation of policies for the achievement of the central bank's objectives. In 2025, Angela joined the

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UK as a member and was also sworn in as a member of the governing board of

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, Ghana. Before joining IBM, she worked in the UK for

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and ABN AMRO Bank. In January 2022, Microsoft announced the appointment of Kyerematen-Jimoh, an international corporate law expert, as the new Africa Strategic Partnerships Manager in its new Africa Transformation Office (ATO). The office focuses on facilitating growth and investment in four key development areas: digital infrastructure, skills development, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups.

Awards

WomanRising ranked her among the Top 50 Corporate Women Leaders in

for 2016. In 2018, she was awarded the Corporate Personality of the Year by Glitz Africa. In 2023, she was named by ''Forbes Afrique'' among the Top 50 Women Managers in Africa. In 2020, Kyerematen-Jimoh was named among Africa’s 2020 Top 100 Most Influential Women by Avance Media.

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Anis Haffar Anis Haffar is a Ghanaian educationist, teacher, columnist and author. He is the founder of the GATE institute in Ghana,Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh"Profile of Anis Haffar" ''Pulse (Ghana)'', 20 August 2018. and is a council member of the Ghana Educat ...

"The first lady of IBM Africa"
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