The ShaQ Express Advisory Board

Leah Nduati is Chair of the ShaQ Express Advisory Board, where she advises management on governance, investor readiness and market expansion. She brings more than 15 years of executive and advisory experience building and scaling organisations across African markets, with particular depth in governance, growth strategy and cross-border expansion.

Her governance work centres on strengthening boards. She co-founded and served as Executive Director of The Board Harbor Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit that prepared founders to build investor-ready boards and opened pathways to board service, and represented it at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). She chairs the advisory board of the Afrikan Youth Business Council, serves on the advisory board of Isabella Health Services, and chairs The Science of Yoga Initiative at the Global Wellness Institute.

As an executive, Leah has served as Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Parlinum Consulting, a U.S. management consulting firm; built ALX Ventures' accelerator from 10 to 400 companies across eight countries; and led GrowthAfrica's market entry into Ghana, establishing its Ghana operation and supporting delivery in Liberia and Sierra Leone. She is Founder and CEO of Yoga Experiences Africa (YEA) and advises companies on African market expansion.

Leah studied Economics and Communication at the University of Nairobi, holds a Higher Diploma in Management Information Systems from Strathmore University, and is completing an MBA at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. She is based in Accra, Ghana.

Charles N. Armah is Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Last Mile Health, bringing more than 15 years of experience in financial strategy, institutional governance, risk management and organisational transformation across Africa and international development. He has overseen multimillion dollar portfolios, driving financial sustainability, enterprise planning, operational efficiency and institutional strengthening.

Before Last Mile Health he was Director of Finance, IT and Procurement for Ghana and Sierra Leone at MSI Reproductive Choices, and he began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, leading audit and assurance teams across the public sector, energy and resources, and consumer and industrial markets. An ACCA Fellow, he holds master's degrees from the University of York and the University of Ghana Business School.

Felix Nana Osei is a Senior Associate at Beacon Law Consult, Accra, where since 2013 he has led compliance structuring for corporate clients in anti money laundering, data protection and governance, and drafted and negotiated commercial and regulatory agreements.

He was called to the Ghana Bar in 2012 and holds an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Salford and an LLB from KNUST. He is a member of the Ghana Bar Association.

Beatrice Bota is a governance, risk and compliance professional with more than a decade of experience in digital financial services, payments regulation and strategic partnerships across African markets.

She led the development of BrijX, a currency swap solution approved in the Bank of Ghana regulatory sandbox that enables mobile money interoperability between the Ghanaian cedi and the Nigerian naira to support cross border payments and intra African trade. She has built partnerships with leading financial service providers, widened access to digital finance and promoted SME growth through financial literacy. She was named Fintech Personality of the Year 2024 (Female).

Michael Kwabena Acolatse is a digital finance professional with more than 15 years' experience building and scaling financial services for underserved markets across Africa. He is Commercial Lead, Trade at Nsano, where he leads the company's shift from payments to trade enablement, covering cross border payments and trade finance for SMEs.

Before Nsano, Michael was Chief Commercial Officer and Operations Director at Brassica Pay, where he led the company through Bank of Ghana licensing and grew it to over GHS 200 million in monthly transaction volume. He has also held senior roles at BIMA Ghana, PEG Africa and Millicom (Tigo Cash). At PEG Africa he built mobile money repayment systems for pay as you go asset financing.

Michael brings expertise in go to market strategy, embedded finance, regulatory engagement and strategic partnerships. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a graduate of the University of Ghana.