In its 2025 Spotlight on Ghana Edition, Forbes Africa has featured Kwaku Osei-Sarpong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CIPA Holdings Group, and the institution he leads, recognizing their combined role in advancing Ghana’s green transition and shaping a new model for climate-aligned infrastructure development in the country.
The feature highlights CIPA Holdings as a Ghanaian-founded, climate-resilient infrastructure institution and Osei-Sarpong as part of a new generation of African leaders building institutions capable of translating policy ambition into reliable, bankable, and inclusive infrastructure outcomes. Together, they represent a leadership-driven approach that blends governance, innovation, and local ownership to support Ghana’s energy transition.
“Africa doesn’t just need new infrastructure; it needs new institutions of trust. Our mission at CIPA is to build both,” Osei-Sarpong told Forbes Africa.
The recognition builds on a growing list of distinctions for Osei-Sarpong, including Gulf News UAE’s Focus on Ghana Feature, his interview with The Energy Year, Rising Star of the Year at the 2024 Ghana Energy Awards, the 40 Under 40 Award for Environmental and Climate Sustainability, the West Africa Nobles Award for Integrity and Business Excellence, the Enactus Global Leadership Award, and listings among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans and the 100 Ghanaians of Noble Disposition.
Founded and headquartered in Accra, CIPA Holdings has expanded under Osei-Sarpong’s leadership into a platform supporting Ghana’s transition across clean energy, electromobility, digital infrastructure, and climate-aligned investment. While the Group is expanding its footprint across West and Southern Africa, its work in Ghana remains the foundation of its institutional identity and the proving ground for its approach.
CIPA’s governance-first model integrates project development, financing, and execution within a single accountable framework. This structure has positioned the Group as a trusted partner to government agencies, industrial operators, commercial clients, and financial institutions navigating Ghana’s evolving energy and infrastructure landscape.
“We combine strong governance and innovative financing with real local ownership,” says Bright Yamoah, Chief Financial Officer of CIPA Holdings. “Having worked across Ghana’s capital markets and advised clients across Africa for close to two decades, I have learned that credibility is currency. At CIPA, we manage risk with discipline and innovate with purpose.”
Providing overarching institutional guidance is Allan Okomeng-Mensah, President of CIPA Holdings, whose four decades of experience across Ghana’s and Africa’s engineering and infrastructure landscape reinforce the Group’s reputation for technical reliability, value-for-money delivery, and corporate governance excellence. His leadership strengthens CIPA’s credibility as a Ghanaian institution capable of delivering complex infrastructure solutions at scale.
CIPA’s multidisciplinary team of infrastructure developers, engineers, project managers, financial strategists, and sector specialists enables the organization to move seamlessly from concept development to project structuring and delivery. This institutional depth has become a key differentiator as Ghana accelerates its green transition.
CIPA’s expanding portfolio in Ghana centers on clean energy, including solar, battery-energy storage systems (BESS), natural gas, and clean transportation infrastructure that strengthen power reliability for public institutions, industries, commercial facilities, and communities. The Group also delivers public-sector infrastructure, renewable-powered digital infrastructure, and housing and real-estate developments, reflecting an integrated approach to sustainable development.
A defining feature of both Osei-Sarpong’s leadership and CIPA’s strategy is the focus on industrial and commercial decarbonization anchored in local-currency solutions. In a market where clean-energy projects have traditionally depended on foreign-currency funding, CIPA has structured programmes around Ghana cedi-based financing and delivery. This approach reduces currency risk for businesses and enables broader adoption of clean-energy systems.
The programme supports manufacturers, mining companies, agro-processors, logistics firms, pharmaceuticals, industrial parks, and large commercial facilities such as malls, hotels, office parks, and mixed-use developments. Through solar and hybrid energy systems, battery-energy storage integration, energy-efficiency upgrades, process electrification, and advanced digital monitoring systems, CIPA helps enterprises modernize operations while improving reliability and reducing emissions. By promoting electromobility through electric vehicles, fleet-charging solutions, and smart digital technologies, the Group is helping future-proof Ghana’s industrial and commercial infrastructure.
Beyond energy delivery, Osei-Sarpong has positioned CIPA as a contributor to Ghana’s broader industrialization agenda. Through its partnership with Sparq Systems of Canada, CIPA is establishing local assembly capacity for microinverters in Ghana, supporting technology transfer, skills development, and the growth of domestic clean-tech supply chains.
CIPA also plays a catalytic role in mobilizing capital for Ghana’s green transition. Working closely with local financial institutions, the Group structures local-currency financing frameworks for renewable-energy and clean-tech projects. As a project developer and co-investor, CIPA commits its own capital alongside domestic financial partners, aligning long-term interests and strengthening confidence in project delivery.
Beyond infrastructure and investment, Osei-Sarpong’s leadership extends to social impact through the CIPA Foundation, which advances women’s economic empowerment, youth development, climate resilience, and green-jobs creation, ensuring that Ghana’s transition delivers inclusive economic outcomes.
For Forbes Africa, the story of Kwaku Osei-Sarpong and CIPA Holdings reflects a broader shift in Ghana’s development narrative, where local institutions and leaders are increasingly shaping the country’s green transition from within, grounded in governance, discipline, and long-term value creation.
“Being featured in Forbes reflects what happens when a team believes in excellence. It is a recognition of Ghanaian capacity, discipline, and credibility,” says Allan Okomeng-Mensah.
About CIPA Holdings Group
CIPA Holdings Group Limited is a Ghanaian-founded, Pan-African climate-resilient infrastructure company that develops, co-invests in, and delivers sustainable solutions across clean energy, public infrastructure, digital systems, electromobility, housing and real estate, and climate-smart agriculture.
