Patrons From ARIST

 Wole Soboyejo is a Nigerian American materials scientist and engineer that is currently serving as the President of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly).  

  Gebisa Ejeta is Distinguished Professor of Plant Breeding & Genetics and International Agriculture, Executive Director of the Center for Global Food Security, and Presidential Fellow for Food Security and Sustainable Global Development at Purdue University. 

 Dr. Tony Githinji PhD Eng., is the founder, CEO, and Managing Director of Semiconductor Technologies Limited. Dr. Githinji is also a senior research and development fellow at the Dedan Kimathi University of Science and Technology. 

   Professor Esther Akinlabi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, she is currently serving as the Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom. In her most recent role, she served as the Director of the Pan African University for Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), Ibadan, Nigeria.   

 Prof Songca is the HoD for the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Zululand. Previously he was the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and before that at the University of Zululand. 

  Franklin Olakunle Amoo is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Baylis Emerging Markets, a leading pan-African investment firm with headquarters in New York and Lagos; he is also the Chairman of both Baylis Digital and Baylis Industrial. 

 Prof. Kwabena Nyarko is the Provost of Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of KNUST. 

  Ing. Professor Kwadwo Adinkrah-Appiah, the Vice-Chancellor of Sunyani Technical University, Ghana, He is a Professional Civil Engineer and an erudite professor, with more than 20 years’ experience in industry and academia, having obtained his BSc., MPhil and PhD Degrees from KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, in 1998, 2006 and 2015 respectively. 

 Prof Samuel Oluwatobi Oluwafemi is a full Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences within the Faculty of Science, University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa, and a National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa-rated researcher. He is the leader of the Nanotechnology for Biological, Energy, and Water (CHEM-NANOBEW) Laboratory Research group. 

  Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis is Vice President for Discovery Park District (DPD) Institutes and the Bruce Reese professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Purdue University.  DeLaurentis also serves as Chief Scientist of the U.S. DoD’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) UARC and is Senior Research Fellow at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue.  

  Dr. Kamau Gachigi Kamau is the Founding Executive Director of Gearbox, a non-profit organisation that provides members with access to CNC and analogue machines for prototyping and low volume manufacture, including PCB fabrication. Gearbox also avails training, and incubation/ acceleration services in order to broaden access to manufacturing in Kenya. 

   Prof. Jerry John Kponyo is the Dean of the Quality Assurance and Planning Office of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) under the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. Previously, he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KNUST. Before assuming the role of Dean, he served as the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department.