Amma Lartey is CEO of Impact Investing Ghana an initiative to mobilize $1billion in funds for impact investing in Ghana and West Africa. Impact Investing Ghana (IIGh) brings together actors from across sectors committed to developing Impact Investing in Ghana and across Africa. Our mission is to catalyze impact investing to achieve an equitable, inclusive society through collaboration and strategic partnerships. We bring together the leading organisations in Ghana from finance, business, government, the social sector and philanthropy to collaborate for measurable impact. We accomplish this through activities that map and track the evolution of the impact investing ecosystem, identify gaps and propose and initiate collaborative action to fill the gaps. We also undertake activities that increase the capacity of the ecosystem to deploy & absorb capital and influence the creation of an enabling environment through policy advocacy. We undertake actions to unlock both local and international capital for impact investing and to effectively measure and optimize impact results. Our initial strategy and workplan will unlock $1billion in funding for impact investing over the next five years for Ghana and West Africa.

Atifi Institute works with financial services firms, businesses, international development agencies and other entities that want to increase the impact of their work, build the capacity of their leaders or drive collaborative action to bring about systems change.

I am Co-founder and Director of MarketExpress, a smart distribution and retail company with a vision to Increase incomes for MSMEs while making life, selling and shopping easy and simple for people across Africa. At MarketExpress MSMEs, especially those in the informal sector can have Food and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) items delivered to them at affordable prices. We use data on customer purchase patterns and optimize delivery routes to minimize stock-outs and maximize incomes for MSMEs. MarketExpress also runs an ecommerce platform and marketplace where producers and retailers in the agriculture and light manufacturing value chains have their products listed online with efficient inventory tracking. Individuals, households and organizations order items through our website, mobile app, phone, whatsapp, or email and pay conveniently via mobile money, card, or cash. Delivery of items occurs over a 24-hour window. The outbreak of COVID-19, with associated lockdowns, stay at home and social distancing has led us to practice contactless delivery. We have capacity to deliver fresh, processed and packaged local food, giving us an unique opportunity to link with the informal value-chains in Ghana.

In 2015, I had the privilege to launch Social Enterprise Ghana with other key key organizations and leaders in Ghana. It is a membership based organisation that works to provide training, advocacy and research to help social enterprises launch and grow. We also advocate for policies and work with government and other partners to deliver key things which social enterprises need. I chair the board and actively work with our Executive Director and secretariat team to deliver results and impact.

Established operations in 7 markets, and led as a member of the Global Management Team of Reach for Change - a Venture Philanthropist which runs accelerators, incubators and hubs for entrepreneurs in 14 markets. - Established country programs in Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, DRC, Chad, Tanzania and Rwanda, including coordinating launch activities, hiring of teams, legal set up, program launches, program execution, monitoring, evaluation and learning and where relevant program exit. - Developed a strategic planning framework for the Africa region and supported country managers to create strategies and develop programs to identify, invest in and grow over 300 high-impact social entrepreneurs, whose organizations have impacted over 1,000,000 beneficiaries. - Fundraised from new partners and secured follow on funding from existing partners including major global foundations, institutional donors, local and international corporations and major individual donors.- Developed impactful curriculum and incubation and acceleration programs for youth, non-profits, social enterprises, and SMEs to enable them launch, grow and scale businesses in Africa and trained incubator and hub managers and other business support organisations to support over 3200 organisations to launch and grow.- Built and managed partnerships with key corporate implementation and funding partners including telecoms company Millicom, entertainment broadcaster Modern Times Group (MTG) developing impactful corporate social investment programs that built on their unique business strategy and resources to drive maximum impact. - Built and managed implementation and funding partnerships with key international development and social sector organisations such as UNICEF, the European Union, IKEA Foundation and H&M Conscious Foundation.- Represented Reach for Change at national and global events and managed key relationships with senior levels of government, partners and other stakeholders.

Worked with board and management team toCrystallize mission and develop and execute 3-year strategy and program, organizational and financial plans. Develop and pilot 16 session summer curriculum and other One Hen products

Research into high growth companies and the role of public policy in promoting firm growth* Scheduled and conducted interviews with CEOs of high growth companies in the Greater Boston Area achieving a positive response rate of 23% in less than a month.* Provided support to multi country team of researchers.

Strategy and High Spenders Initiative* Performed operations audit of luxury selling department, analysis of customer data and customer relationship systems and developed action plan for increasing the average spend of high spenders by 5%.* Designed interactive training program and led bilingual company-wide training for 207 staff and managers.* Created and tested innovative system to allow sales associates to communicate with their customers.

Developed business plan, sourced financing for and launched start-up Conference Support and Printing Company.* Established administrative, sales, production and financial systems; and recruited and supervised administrative, sales and production staff increasing sales by 200% in last two years.* Created Marketing and Sales information system and hired, trained and supervised team of sales people.* Developed marketing strategy and implemented various radio and print advertising campaigns and coordinated media activities and promotional campaigns for screen printing products.

Worked with management team to raise first two year's budget, design and implement programs and products.* Developed concepts for, and marketed the following programs and products with team: * Published eight books along with related merchandise* Developed five seminars, promoted and run them in various secondary and tertiary educational institutions* Developed concepts, sought sponsorship for and launched two recurring national youth leadership events