Herman Chinery-Hesse: Funeral Details Of Ghana’s Bill Gates Announced, To Be Buried In November

• Ghanaian businessman and SOFTtribe founder Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse will be laid to rest on November 2, 2024
• The burial and memorial service will take place at Graceland Memorial Garden near Ashesi University, Berekusu
• According to an obituary, the family has planned a private burial following the final funeral rites

The late Ghanaian businessman and founder of SOFTtribe Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse will be buried on November 2, 2024.

The funeral and burial ceremony was announced through an obituary circulating on social media.

The family indicated on the obituary that the burial and memorial service will be held at the Graceland Memorial Garden, Berekusu, near the Ashesi University in the Eastern Region.

The obituary stated that filing past will start at 8 a.m., the pre-burial service will be held at 9 a.m., and the burial and memorial service will begin at 10 a.m.

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The burial will be a private one, after which the final funeral rites will be held at the Graceland Memorial Garden.

The tech mogul, who was often described as the Bill Gates of Ghana, died at the age of 61 years in September 2024 after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Google honours Chinery-Hesse

YEN.com.gh reported that Google named a meeting room at its Headquarters after Herman Chinery-Hesse.

In a Facebook post to share the honour, Herman Chinery-Hesse said he was unaware that a meeting room at the company's Headquarters had been after him.

He only got to know when one of his friends shared the information with him.

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In another development, YEN.com.gh reported that a young Ghanaian man celebrated his six-month anniversary as a Google employee.

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Prince Boadu, in a post on X, reflected on his journey from Ayeduasi-Kotei in Kumasi to the global tech company.

He described his experience so far as a humbling journey of continuous learning and was appreciative of getting to work with intelligent and supportive colleagues

Several netizens who saw Prince Boadu's post congratulated him for his achievement at Google, while others asked him how he got the job

Source: YEN.com.gh