Ashesi University Founder Patrick Awuah On Starr Chat With Bola Ray Today

Founder of Ashesi University Patrick Awuah will on Wednesday, September 2, give a rare insight into his private and professional life when he takes his turn on Starr Chat hosted by Kwabena Anokye Adisi more commonly known as Bola Ray on Starr 103.5FM.

The smooth-talking former Microsoft employee would speak on a range of issues including why he quit a well-paid job at Microsoft in the United States to start Ashesi University in Ghana.

Ashesi University is a private, non-profit liberal arts college.

Awuah left Ghana in 1985 to attend Swarthmore College on a full scholarship, after which he worked for Microsoft Corporation as an engineer and a program manager for eight years.

Experiencing firsthand the dramatic impact that education can have on one's life, Awuah embarked on a mission in 1997 to provide greater educational opportunities in Ghana.

He enrolled in a business school at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, both to evaluate the feasibility of his goal and to gain a broader range of managerial skills with which to found and manage a university.