Boakye-Yam Boadi is an Accounting professional and currently a Ph. D. student in Personal Financial Planning at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, USA. He is a Teaching Assistant and the International Team lead of the student group Red to Black (Red to Black is Peer Financial Coaching, which answers students’ money questions through individual sessions and group presentations).

He is also a member of the student group KEY (Knowledge Empowering You), a group that educates the Lubbock Community on issues relating to Cash, Credit, Coverage, Career, College, and Insurance.

He is the former Chief Operations Officer of Principal Capital Microfinance Limited. Other positions he has held include Finance Manager at Catamount Microfinance Ltd., Audit Team Leader at PKF (Formally Pannell Kerr Forster), and Accounts Officer at Intermove Group of Companies. He has also consulted in Auditing, Accounting, and Taxation related issues for several companies, which include Oasis Capital Ghana Limited, Vokacom, Vasmol Limited, Two Dot O Limited, Histolab Diagnostic Centre, Ace Consult, A. A. Quick Clean.

Boakye-Yam holds an MBA (Accounting) and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting option from the University of Ghana. He is a student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICA, Part 3). He also obtained special skills in Financial Modeling in Microsoft Excel from Benchmark Financial & Management Training Centre – Ghana, and Advanced Business and Financial Reporting Using Excel also from Meirc Training & Consulting, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Boakye-Yam interest includes Taxation, Accounting, Financial Management, Auditing, Retirement Planning, Financial Literacy, Charitable Giving, Investments, Household Saving and Consumption Decisions toward retirement, College Education, Homeownership, Financial Behavior Change, and the Financial Planner/Client interaction theory and practice.

Juliana Abena Appiah is a Research Fellow at the Legon Centre of International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana, Legon, where she teaches Africa in World Politics, Regionalism and Regional Integration and Research Methodology. Julie had a Post – Doctoral Fellowship with the University Of Cape Town, South Africa in 2015 where she learnt to develop courses in International Affairs. She has also benefitted from various African Union training and workshops.

Agnes is the Managing Director of Titan Insurance Brokers Limited. She has about ten years of industry experience. Agnes worked at First Anchor Risk Management Limited. She is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, UK. She also holds a first degree in BSc Admin. (Insurance Option) from the University of Ghana, Legon and an MSc Finance with Risk Management from the Bournemouth University. Agnes leads the team at Titan with exceptional leadership and negotiation skills

Esinam is the Executive Director of Titan Insurance Brokers. She is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, UK. She also holds a BSc Administration (Insurance Option) degree from the University of Ghana, and an LLB from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). She is currently pursuing her Professional Law Programme at the Ghana School of Law. She is an astute Insurance practitioner with about nine years of industry experience. She spent four out of those nine years at First Anchor Risk Management Limited.