Prof (Mrs.) Rosemond Boohene is a Professor of Enterprise Development at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development, University of Cape Coast. She was the former; Head of Department of Management Studies, Vice Dean of the School of Business, Dean for International Education, University of Cape Coast and Visiting Professor at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Prof. Boohene has served as a reviewer and presented at conferences and published articles and book chapters in both local and international journals. She has 23 years’ experience in enterprise development and higher education management and has managed projects for the EXIM Bank Ghana, Rainforest Alliance, Association of African Universities, European Union (EU), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the United Nations Office of Programmes and Services (UNOPS) on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Development and Entrepreneurship. She also led a team to establish the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development, the University of Cape Coast Business incubator and the rolling out of a University wide entrepreneurship course which aimed at developing the entrepreneurial mindsets and skills of students, graduates and the community.

Dr Daniel Agyapong is a Senior Lecturer in Finance and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, University of Cape Coast. He is also a youth and micro, small and medium enterprise development consultant. He is a team member of the project Graduate Enterprise Development Initiative that is financed by the government of Ghana; and a UNDP/UNEP project dubbed Switch Africa Green. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Open University Malaysia, MPhil in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Ghana, Legon; Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Bachelor of Management Studies from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) with Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing. Moreover and a Licentiate Member, International Professional Managers Association (UK) with a Postgraduate Diploma in Management.

Dr. Oghenekome Umuerri is a Project Manager and a research fellow at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He leads a transdisciplinary research and transfer project between the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, and its Africa partners in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.

Previously, he analyzed high potential start-up investments in Sub-Sahara Africa as an external consultant for the Up-Scaling Program of Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) and was Business Unit Leader, Client Services East and West Africa at GfK S.E., where he focused on helping companies understand their customers better through consumer experience research.

Educated in Germany and Nigeria, he holds a PhD in Business Administration from Jacobs University, Bremen (now Constructor University Bremen) an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Hohenheim and a B.Sc. in Banking and Finance from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Currently, he teaches Management Accounting, International Finance, International Business Strategy and International Marketing to bachelor students at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg  and his research focus is entrepreneurship in particular born global startups and SME development in Africa.