Akan Jacobs is the Chairman of the board of TLH. He is an electronics engineer and entrepreneur. He founded Converge G. C. Technologies Limited in March, 2009. By 2022, six subsidiaries had been created under the Converge Group of Companies banner, by God’s grace.
Akan’s career spans 21 years of experience in building six start-up organizations. His roles include strategic management, information technology, operations management & customer services. With a core passion in information technology, he amassed over 45 international certifications covering several areas including Red Hat, IBM, Citrix, AppDynamics, Splunk, Cisco, Riverbed, etc and a magna cum laude in Business Administration.
He is passionate about excellence & ethics in business and developing a strong service culture. Converge only recently won the Africa Brand Congress Award as Africa’s Most Outstanding Technology Services Company of the Year 2022. And as of today, Converge’s footprint covers Liberia, South Africa, Ghana, Cameroun, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Switzerland, England and Nigeria. Converge has subsidiaries in haulage, commodities, intelligent buildings, and human capital.
He is married to his beloved wife, Iwisi Jacobs and they are blessed with two boys.
Akan Jacobs graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, GHANA with a Bachelor of Science (BSC) in Electrical Electronics Engineering. And in pursuit to acquire more education and professional qualifications he proceeded to the American Intercontinental University, USA where he attained a Masters in Business Administration (magna cum laude). Akan went further to acquire several technology professional certifications from Red hat, Citrix, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and Riverbed.