1. Dr. Yaw Frimpong, PhD.
Educational Background:
Masters in Business Administration, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Doctorate in Computer Information Systems, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Work Experience:
Worked in IT for about 30 years; Companies he has Consulted or Worked for include American Standard, Accenture, Johnson and Johnson, Schering Plough, Ansaldo, American Arbitration Association, Trecom, Transnet Corporation, Empire Soils, etc.
Also, over the last 20 years, he has taught as an Adjunct Professor, both online and in the brick and mortar environments in a number of Universities, mostly in the NJ, NY and PA areas. Some of the Universities he taught include Rowan University, Villanova University, Everest University, American InterContinental University(AIU), Strayer University and Thomas Edison University, etc.
As an entrepreneur, he maintained a Computer Training facility for about 10 years in NJ and later opened an online front (ABAS.com) to deliver training in Business Intelligence(BI) and offer consulting services till 2014. Also, in the early 1990s, he maintained the Africoco.com website, which used to be one of the early websites for many Africans in the diaspora to share their thoughts in a very popular forum.
Hobby:
Thinking out of the box; writing and music composition. Also, he enjoys and loves dancing to good beats.
When his children came of age, he coached and guided them to explore the music industry by forming the rap duo, Youngsons, which had both local and national TV appearances in the US. When the major Record Labels were slow in signing on the YoungSons, he encouraged and redirected their efforts. His older son, Kwame Fimpong, went on to complete his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, PA and he is currently is medical doctor. The second son, Kofi Frimpong, after the dissolution of the Youngsons rap group, also went on to complete his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and he is currently a Tech Entrepreneur in Los Angeles. His daughter, the lovely Adwoa Afrakomah Frimpong, is currently a Senior at Rutgers University, NJ.
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