Kojo Mills is a senior investment leader, Board Advisor, non-executive director, and African corporate transaction expert, advising on the delivery of emerging market investment strategies for global investors, technology-enabled corporations, and financial services firms.

Mills has been a founding director and leader of multiple investment companies, generating over $1 billion investment returns over 25-years in Africa. Mills has been an investment banker on Wall Street, a securities trader and fund manager in Ghana, a personal equity specialist in the U.S. and Africa, and a NED of numerous financial services entities. He has been an active Board member, either as a shareholder representative or independent director, on over 20 companies and non-profit entities across his recent career.

Mills is currently lead independent director and chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of Stanbic Investment Management Services, a $1 billion Ghanaian Securities and Exchange regulated asset and pension fund manager,
and the chairman of the Board of Directors of Ashburn Consulting LLC, a Washington, DC-based network engineering, cybersecurity, and data center and cloud solutions provider. Mills serves on the Investment Committee VestedWorld, a U.S.-based venture capital firm investing in Africa. He also Chairs the Board of Directors of “Lead for Ghana” and is the Finance Committee Chair of “Get in the Game”.
For nine years, Mills was on the Board of Directors of Stanbic Bank Ghana Ltd, a Ghanaian regulated bank where he served as Chair of the Audit Committee and the Credit & Risk Committee. Mills was previously Chair of the Global Engagement Committee of Georgetown University’s Board of Regents, co-leading a successful capital campaign to raise $200 thousand for a new institute.

Mills has lived and worked in the U.S., Ghana, and South Africa and has significant and meaningful business and personal networks in all three countries. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in economics from Georgetown University. He is married and a newly minted empty nester with two adult children ages 23 and 20.

Mills is an avid golfer, loves playing racquet sports, and enjoys watching international soccer.