Safroadu "Saf" Yeboah-Amankwah

Safroadu “Saf” Yeboah-Amankwah is Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Intel Corporation.  Yeboah-Amankwah leads Intel’s Global Strategy Office, including Intel Capital, and works with the executive team on developing and driving growth-oriented strategies.

Yeboah-Amankwah joined Intel from McKinsey & Company, where he was most recently a Senior Partner and Global Head of the Transformation Practice for the Telecom, Media, and Technology (TMT) practice, based in Washington, D.C.  He was also the Global Lead of Client Capabilities for the TMT practice.

Previously, he served as Managing Partner for South Africa and Head of McKinsey’s TMT and Digital practice for Africa.

Yeboah-Amankwah received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is a former Board member of the United Negro College Fund.

During his time in Africa, Saf was one of McKinsey’s experts on doing business in Africa, leading the firms work in digital and telecommunications across Africa.  While in that role, he supported the turnaround of a leading local telecom operator and led a three-year transformation program at one of Africa’s largest retail banks.  He also supported a global private-equity firm in turning around an Africa multinational, focused on the agricultural value chain.  His other efforts helped a high-tech multinational develop a growth strategy for its African operations that led to a 3X improvement in sales, and he co-led a three-year transformation for one of the largest telecom OEMs, encompassing operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.