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Jacques Boanerges Yannick

Chief Operating Officer

Jacques is the Chief Operating Officer at Niqao, a Fintech Company located in Ghana. He is an MIT Bootcamp alumnus and is passionate about technologies and how to use it to solve problems.

Before that, he was an Entrepreneur in Training at MEST Africa, which is a Pan-African training program, seed fund, and incubator for technology entrepreneurs in Africa. This training is providing critical skills training in software development, business, and communications to build a world-class startup business.

He also worked as an IT System Administrator for Smile OpenSource Cote d’Ivoire. At Smile, he used his background experience in opensource Laboratory (Labtic) to deploy, monitor and troubleshoot Linux. He also used his skills in computer project management and Open source solutions to conduct an IT project based on Opensource Solutions.

Jacques has experience in community management and marketing campaign, he is also a power-point and Prezi pitch deck designer and has worked with Bienfait&Associés a French company for a Prezi design. he is also passionate about Smart Cities and has conducted a traffic management IoT project in Abidjan CI.

He is also a Worshipper, he sings in Church and is an active Christian who is a disciple of Christ Jesus.

Jacques holds an MSc in Information System Engineering and Computer Project Management from CERCO.

previous mentorship experience

1. Mentor and judge for the program of PARC (Panafrican Robotic Competition) 2. Mentor for innovation projects during university

I am a GSTEP mentor because...

I want to give back and impact the next generation in this country that is hosting me.

areas of expertise

  • Information System Engineering and Computer Project Management
  • Computer Network and Telecommunications
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship