Board of Trustees
Dr. Sangu J. Delle, Esq
– Founder & Chairman
Born in Ghana, Sangu’s childhood home was a refuge for victims of torture and violence from neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. After attending Christ the King and Ghana International School in Accra,
Banguu Delle
Banguu Delle is the Chief Operating Officer of CarePoint and the Chief Executive Officer of Rabito Clinics, a healthcare group with 23 clinics across Ghana.
Jude Adom Arthur
Adom Arthur is the Chief of Staff to the CEO of CarePoint. Adom is responsible for streamlining strategic initiatives, overseeing program management, and communicating objectives between departments.
Mrs. Kadijah Amoah
Mrs. Kadijah Amoah is the Chief Executive Officer for Pecan Energies Ghana Limited, the first Ghanaian woman to lead an oil and gas exploration and production company. She is a member of the Executive Management Team of Pecan Energies AS in Norway.
Nana Dufie Addo
Nana Dufie Addo has spent the past four years in public service roles as the Head of Special Funds at the Development Bank of Ghana (DBG) and previously as the COO of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), under the Office of the President of Ghana.
Sangu was fortunate to have been awarded a full merit scholarship to attend the Peddie School, a boarding school in New Jersey. He then went on to Harvard University on a full scholarship, where he was inspired to pursue social and economic entrepreneurship. Sangu graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College with highest honors in African Studies and Economics, where he was awarded the Thomas Hoopes Prize, the Reverend Peter Gomes Prize, the Philippe Wamba Prize, the Deshaun Hill & Harvard Stephens and the Maurice Sedwell Prize among others. He further obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Doctor of Law from Harvard Law School, where he was a Soros Fellow and received the Dean’s Award for Leadership. Sangu further pursued a fully funded Master’s in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, where he graduated Merit Equivalent as an Oxford-Allan and Nesta Ferguson Scholar. He also graduated with a PhD in Economic Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Birmingham in the UK where he was awarded a College of Arts and Law Scholarship. He has obtained Executive Education Certificates from the Oxford University Said Business School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Sangu has previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Valiant Capital Partners. Convinced that the real needs of communities can best be met through entrepreneurship, in 2006 he co-founded Golden Palm Investments Corporation (“Golden Palm”) to back promising tech start-ups that can have social impact and generate jobs. Today Golden Palm is a leading venture capital firm with over $100 million of assets under management across Africa and the Middle East and has backed leading tech startups such as Andela, Flutterwave, Wasoko, Autochek and mPharma. Golden Palm portfolio companies have collectively raised over $1.5 billion in venture financing in the last ten years. Sangu serves as the current Executive Chairman of Golden Palm and previously served as CEO until 2017. In 2010, Golden Palm started acquiring healthcare assets and in 2017, spun out its healthcare portfolio into a new company, CarePoint, with a vision to “build Africa’s healthcare future.” Sangu currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. CarePoint transforms healthcare assets using technology and innovation and currently serves 1 million+ patients a year through its portfolio of 65+ hospitals and clinics in Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya and through its telemedicine platform.
Sangu is an active philanthropist who has historically focused on health and education. He co-founded Cleanacwa (formerly the African Development Initiative) in 2006, which worked on clean water and sanitation initiatives to impact over 200,000 people in 160 villages across Ghana. In 2022, in honor of his 35th birthday, Sangu established the Sangu Delle Foundation with an initial $1 million commitment and a pledge to donate the majority of his assets to the foundation as the umbrella vehicle to steward his personal philanthropy and to act as a catalytic agent of change focused on education, health and economic empowerment.
Sangu serves and has served on several boards, advisory and subsidiary boards including Andela, Flutterwave, mPharma, Rabito, CarePoint, Meridian, Lily and Autochek, among others. He was a member of an advisory board (Stakeholder Advisory Panel) of AXA, the global insurance company, from 2017 -2020. Sangu served as a Trustee of the Peddie School in New Jersey from 2017 to 2022. At Harvard University, Sangu served as an Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association from 2017 – 2020. He currently serves on Harvard University’s Board of Overseers as the second African (after the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu) to be elected on that board since its founding in 1637. At Harvard, he also serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Center for African Studies and previously served on the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Global Health and Service Advisory Council and the Harvard Business School Fund Council. He is the President of the Harvard Club of Ghana and the Chair of Harvard Interviews in Ghana. He is a member of the West Africa Advisory Group of the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford and serves on the Selection Committee of the West Africa Rhodes Scholarship, for which he was awarded the George Parkin Service Award by the Rhodes Trust at Oxford University in 2019. Sangu also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Ashesi University; and a member of the Board of Directors of his alma mater, Ghana International School.
Sangu has received several international accolades including the 2024 Global Entrepreneurs Award, 2023 Institut Choiseul “Digital Entrepreneur of the Year”, Top 100 Economic Leaders in Africa in 2022, 2023 and 2024, RoW 2022 “100 Global Tech Changemakers”, The Root 100 Most Influential Black Americans (2022), 2022 African Young Business Leader of the Year, 2021 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Harvard Black Students’ Association 2020 Legacy Award, New Africa Magazine “100 Most Influential Africans of 2019,” EMY 2019 Award for Young Male Achiever of the Year, Africa CEO Forum Finalist for “Young CEO of the Year”, Africa Youth Awards “100 Most Influential Young Africans”, 2016 GOOD 100 List of “100 people who are improving the world through creativity and innovation,” three times winner of Forbes top 30 most promising entrepreneurs in Africa, Future Africa Awards 2014 “Young Person of the Year,” Euromoney’s “Africa’s Rising Stars” award. He is a TED Fellow, an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow, a President Eisenhower Fellow and a GLG Social Impact Fellow. Forbes Afrique named Sangu as one of the top “100 Economic Leaders in Africa” in 2015. PolicyMic named Sangu as one of 9 entrepreneurs in the millennial generation making a difference in 2014. In 2014, he received a Young African Committed to Excellence award by Face2Face Africa and was featured on Young CEO on Ndani TV in Nigeria. In 2005, as a high school student, Sangu was featured in TIME magazine’s Tomorrow25 as one of 25 future world leaders.
Sangu is a licensed attorney, admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He loves the outdoors and trekked Mount Everest in 2013 and summited Kilimanjaro during the summer of 2015. He has traveled to over 110 countries globally including 47 in Africa and is the award-winning author of Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times / McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book by an author under age 40 and was published by Cassava Republic in October 2019.
He is a devout Catholic, serving the Church as a Minister of the Word at Christ the King Catholic Church in Accra and a proud member of the Noble Order of the Knights of Marshall and the Knights of Columbus.
Prior to CarePoint, Banguu served as the Chief Operations Officer for Golden Palm Investments Corporation (GPIC) which he co-founded with Sangu Delle, where he oversaw and managed the company’s operations across Africa. He served on the Investment Committee and had P&L responsibility for the Healthcare and Agriculture verticals. Banguu also previously served as General Manager of Rabito Clinic Limited. Prior to Rabito, Banguu worked at the National Bank of Canada and at Altamira Investment Services, where he was responsible for managing a CAD$50 million portfolio. Banguu serves on the Board of Directors of Rabito Clinic Limited, CarePoint Hospitals Limited, Golden Palm Investments Corporation, Coalition for Positive Impact and the Sangu Delle Foundation.
Banguu graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Arts in Finance and International Economics and pursued a Master of Business Administration at the London School of International Business. He holds certificates in Canadian Securities and Professional Financial Planning from the Canadian Securities Institution in Toronto, as well as certifications in Financial Markets from the Ghana Stock Exchange. He also earned an Executive Certificate in Business from Harvard Business School.
He oversees all strategic communication and the branding of CarePoint and all its healthcare facilities. Adom currently serves as Secretary to the Board of Directors of CarePoint, Meridian Health Group and Rabito Clinic Limited.
Prior to CarePoint, Adom spent seven years working in international development and advertising with functions spanning marketing strategy and planning, brand development and design, public relations, communications, media strategy and digital advertising. As Director of Marketing and Fundraising for Cleanacwa, an international non-profit in the Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) sector, Adom worked closely with government organizations, NGOs, charities, and other stakeholders in the WASH sector. He established global partnerships with many institutions of higher learning including Harvard University, Ashesi University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He also led fundraising activities that helped raise over $200,000 for water and sanitation projects.
Adom obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Business Management (Logistics and Operations) from Cardiff University, UK, and a Master of Science (MSc.) degree in Marketing Management from Aston University. He also has a CIPS Level 6 graduate diploma from Cardiff University in Purchasing & Supply from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
She is also a council member of the Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber. Prior to joining Pecan Energies, Ms. Amoah was a Lawyer and a member of the Banking and Capital Markets Team at Clifford Chance LLP, Germany.
She previously worked as Head of Investments and Business Development at the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana. She was the Government of Ghana lead of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Government of Ghana lead of the U.K Ghana Business Council.
Mrs. Amoah holds a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science and Sociology, LLB (Hons), and an M.Sc. in International Business from the University of Ghana. She also holds a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Institute of Legal Practice and Development in Rwanda, a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation and an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Mrs. Amoah is an alumnus of the International Leader’s Programme of the U.K Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Raisa Program by the Spanish government. She is a President Eisenhower Fellow and a member of Oriel Law Society, Oriel College.
Prior to her appointment at GIPC, she was the Global Chief Financial Officer of mPharma Data Inc., and previously served in various capacities including Global Business Development Lead and Country Group Head for Ivory Coast and Zambia.
She worked as an Investment Officer at the Washington State Investment Board ($100 billion AUM) developing investment theses and engaging with investment managers to assess and allocate investments across Private Equity, Real Estate, Public Equity, Tangible Assets and Fixed Income asset classes. She spent 3 years consulting in the telecom, oil & gas and mining industries with key clients including AngloGold Ashanti and Vodacom Congo; and began her career in investment banking and project finance at Lehman Brothers (currently Barclays) and IFC where she covered Real Estate, Retail, Agribusiness, Oil & Gas and Healthcare sectors.
She has participated on various advisory boards including Freezelink, Vodacom Congo, and Golden Palm Investments and has served on the boards of Stratcomm Africa and the Ghana Minerals Income Investment Fund.
Nana Dufie holds an MSc.in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and a BA in Chemistry and Mathematics (minor) from Mount Holyoke College. She is also an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow, a Choiseul100 Laureate, and has been the recipient of several awards including the SDF Leadership Award in Job Creation.