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Meet the Axis Team of Axis Human Capital

Group Recruitment Development Accra



Esi E. Ansah CEO, Axis Human Capital Ltd.

Esi is an Assistant Professor at Ashesi University, where she
teaches classes including Human Resource Management,
Organizational Behavior, and Negotiation & Creative Problem
Solving, working closely with her students to help them in self-
discovery, identifying, articulating and carving out their career
paths. She is an avid believer in, and contributor to achieving the
vision and mission of Ashesi.

Her other professional and academic interests include social and public
entrepreneurship and sustainable educational and public sector reform in Ghana. Esi
earned her Bachelor's degrees in Psychology, International Affairs and French from the
Florida State University in 1999, graduating with a three Bachelors degrees in three
years cum laude (with honors). She also holds Master's degrees in Social Sciences and
in Public Service Management from the University of Chicago (2004) and DePaul
University in Chicago (2002), respectively. She holds a PhD in Public Administration
(2008) from Rutgers University in New Jersey. In September 2009, Esi was welcomed
into the Africa Leadership Initiative as an ALI Fellow.

Esi has a deep commitment to community service and has a long history of volunteer
work wherever in the world she finds herself. From caring for displaced orphans in
Jamaica, to mentoring adolescents to excel academically in Florida, to laboring to
refurbish houses for the low-income elderly in Kentucky, to caring for children in a
daycare in France and mentoring incarcerated youth in Ghana. Esi is a member of the
Board of the Longevity Project, where she also serves as a volunteer.

Esi is a chocolate-lover who counts cooking and eating, writing, traveling, and
photography amongst her hobbies. She believes that being spiritually alive and well is
the key to her success, and describes herself as a simple, high-energy person who never
runs out of ideas (she maintains a detailed Idea Bank), and also as a "grounded
idealist" with a sense of urgency and an aim to bring positive transformation wherever
she finds herself.

Kwadwo Adjei-Barwuah

Kwadwo began his career with Investors Group Canada, then the largest financial
services company in Canada. As a Financial Consultant in Investor's Group Asset
Management section, he provided investment and tax planning solutions to small


Canadian businesses and households. As a licensed mutual funds dealer, he structured
and tracked several investment portfolios.

Kwadwo also worked as an Analyst and Head of Information Systems for the Banking
Supervision Department of the Bank of Ghana. As head of a unit responsible for
reporting on the banking industry, he tracked the solvency, profitability and liquidity of
the Banking and Non-Banking industry at an aggregate and individual level during his
time with the Bank of Ghana, Kwadwo also served as the User Team Lead on a project
to develop and implement the national supervision software.

Kwadwo most recently worked as an Associate with Black Star Advisors, a Ghanaian
Investment Bank. He was responsible for a originating, structuring and monitoring
deals for a $10MM Venture Capital Fund as well as structuring third party mutual
funds.

Kwadwo has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics with a Minor Management (with
Distinction) from McGill University in Canada and is an affiliate member of the
Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.

Isaac Kwaku Fokuoh

Isaac is an international business development and finance expert with over 12 years of
experience in change and project management, supply-chain management, and
business development. His areas of expertise include corporate due diligence and
governance, socially responsible investing, process design and implementation,
political and economic risk analysis, and Islamic finance.

As principal of the BOTHO Group of companies, Isaac provides clients with
independent, impartial, and comprehensive advice about investment opportunities in
emerging markets. BOTHO is also involved in the nonprofit sector and is proficient at
using private sector resources to develop micro-enterprise and finance opportunities
through sustainable economic development programs in emerging economies. Current
projects are in Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Prior to founding BOTHO, Isaac was selected to participate in a prestigious
management development program at McMaster-Carr where he held several positions
of increasing responsibility in process management, realignment and implementation
of best business practices. As part of the operations management team, he managed
daily operations of the order fulfillment department (monthly sales of approximately
$30M), supervised over 80 employees, and served as assistant project leader of a team
that facilitated and developed set-up and readiness in large-scale warehouse operations
including safety requirements, product placement, density, and workforce
management.



Isaac is a sought-after speaker on topics such as emerging market opportunities,
socially responsible investing, corporate governance, strategic philanthropy, and
operations management. He has authored articles on emerging markets, Islamic
finance, and corporate social responsibility that were published in the Middle-East,
South-East Asia and Africa.
Isaac holds an MBA from DePaul University's Kelsdadt School of Business, an MA in
International Relations from the University of Chicago and a BA in International
Studies from Hanover College.

Eric Donkoh

Eric Donkoh is a senior microprocessor circuit design engineer at Intel Corporation
Enterprise Microprocessor Group in Portland, Oregon. Eric joined IntelLogic
Technology Development, Microprocessor Design Group, in 1999 and has since worked
on the design of major Intel and industry leading state-of-the-art Microprocessor and
Process Technology products such as Core i7/i5/i3, Pentium 4, Dual/Multi-Core, and
Pentium III line of CPUs for Laptops, Desktop, and Servers.

Eric also does research in the field of Low Power CPU design with the view to reducing
CPU energy consumption. He is currently the Intel Converged Core Development
Organization Register File Circuits Power Lead. Eric also does collaborative research
with Oregon State University, USA.

Eric has diverse interest in various fields and has hobbies that span from sports to
social commentary to internet and computer technologies. Eric serves on the board
NAPE foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to provide education
opportunity through academic scholarships to Ghanaian students for university
education.

Eric has M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, USA
(1999) and B.Sc. degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Central State University,
USA (1997).

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