Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse (born 1963) is a Ghanaian technology entrepreneur and the founder of theSOFTtribe, the oldest and foremost software company in Ghana. He is popularly known as the Bill Gates of Africa.

Chinery-Hesse also made the list of 15 Black STEM Innovators. In March 2019, he was introduced as the Commonwealth Chair for Business and Technology initiatives for Africa.

He was educated at the Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, Westlake High School in Texas, and Texas State University. In 1991, Herman co-founded theSOFTtribe Ltd, one of the leading software houses in Africa. Over the years, the company has pioneered a number of groundbreaking products such as Nationwide utility billing systems, Point of sale systems, Electronic payment systems among others.

Chinery-Hesse has been a speaker at many prestigious institutions including Oxford University, Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School, and Tech4Africa, etc.

He has also played a supporting role in the realm of technology to many Ghanaian presidents in their international engagements. He is a TED fellow and has featured heavily in the international media’s reportage on technology in Africa, including CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera, and publications such as the Ghana Business & Finance Times, Forbes, Inc Magazine, and many others.

He was named one of 20 Notable Black Innovators in Technology, one of Africa’s Top 20 Tech Influencers, among the top 100 most influential Africans of our time, and one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine.

His current project “African Echoes” is aimed at creating African audiobooks for global consumption, such that for the first time ever Africans are in a position to tell their own stories.