How Ghanaian Aerospace Executive is Helping to Reduce Barriers to Humanitarian Aid at Tech Company

How Ghanaian Aerospace Executive is Helping to Reduce Barriers to Humanitarian Aid at Tech Company

  • Ghanaian Kofi Asante is the vice-president of strategy and business development at aerospace startup Elroy Air
  • The aerospace executive plays an integral role in the establishment by helping to reduce the barriers to helping humanitarian communities
  • He has helped the company from its seed stage to expanding its team and raking in $50 million in investments

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Ghanaian aerospace executive, Kofi Asante, is changing transport technology as a leading executive at aerospace startup Elroy Air.

He serves as the company’s vice-president of strategy and business development.

Kofi Asante
Kofi Asante: Ghanaian aerospace executive at the aerospace startup Elroy Air. Source: @idealmagn3t
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How Asante is impacting communities

Asante is using his background in business, political science, and political theory, to help in reducing limitations associated with providing humanitarian help to communities.

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He has played an integral role in Elroy Air since he joined the company over three years.

Asante was involved from its seed stage to expanding its team and raking in $50 million in investments.

His Ghanaian dad, an engineer, and mom, an African American woman, a professor in communications, helped shape his life.

The company's mission

Elroy Air’s mission is to ''expand the reach of express shipping, provide humanitarian aid in regions with challenging infrastructure, immediate relief in disaster situations, and enable rapid, autonomous aerial resupply to troops in the field,'' a statement on the company’s website said, according to Black Enterprise

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.