The Chief Executive Officer of SUKU Technologies, Tsonam Cleanse Akpeloo, has received a 40 Under 40 Award in the Technology and Innovation category.

The award was in recognition of his remarkable achievements in rendering impeccable service and entrepreneurial professionalism in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.

The 40 Under 40 Award is to identify, honour and celebrate a cross-section of the nation’s most influential and accomplished young business leaders under 40 years from a wide range of industries.

These are people who are committed to business growth, professional excellence, and community service and have risen the ranks of their companies or industries at a relatively young age.

It also seeks to emphasis these individuals’ impeccable results through a commitment to business growth, professional excellence, and community service.

SUKU Technologies is a multi-award winning technology Solutions Company in Ghana with clients in over six countries. 

As the Founder and CEO, Tsonam Cleanse Akpeloo created eDuBoost to build world-class IT facilities for schools in Ghana. 

Currently, he is the Greater Accra Regional Chairman for the Association Ghana Industries (AGI); the country’s leading voice of the industry.

The award winner was the Co-coordinator of the MyVisionProject (MVP) under the auspices of the Databank Foundation and the British Council and the Executive Producer of the MyVisionProject TV series; the first entrepreneurial TV pseudo-reality show in West Africa. 

He chaired the technical committee of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission in Abuja, responsible for the development of an E-commerce platform on ECOBIZ for the West African Sub-region.

Tsonam Cleanse Akpeloo, is a Global Shaper and the Founding Curator of the Ho Hub of the Global Shapers Council of the World Economic Forum. 

In 2014, he became the youngest ever elected an honorable member of Africa Union’s (AU) Economic, Social, and the Cultural Council (ECOSOCC), where he served as ECOSOCC’s Youth Advisor.

He is also on the Board of the Methodist University College of Ghana, the Ghana Construction Machinery Mechanics Training Institute (CMMTI) of the NVTI, the School of Creative Arts among others.

He is a Mandela Washington Fellow, Jack Ma’s Alibaba eFounders fellow, UNDP Youth CONNECT Fellow, and Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur. 

In 2014, he emerged as Africa’s Top 35 under 35 CEOs Achievement Awards as Africa’s Young Visionary Entrepreneur Award in 2013 by the African Leadership Magazine, UK. 

The young CEO also received the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award by the UNDP sponsored Youth Impacts Ghana Awards (YIGA) in 2012.

He is an alumnus of the African Liberty Academy and Diplo Foundation, he received his Business and Entrepreneurship professional training at the Clark Atlanta Business School in the USA, and also studied E-commerce at the Alibaba Business School in China. 

Tsonam completed the Stanford SEED Programme of Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds masters in Economic Policy Management (EPM) and a BA in Economics and Political Science both at the University of Ghana, Legon. 

He had a post-graduate education in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Ghana Technology University. 

The CEO also received part of his education in Jungian Psychology from the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Gavle University, Sweden. Also, He has a Diploma in Financial Management from CIM-UK.