BENNET KPENTEY, CVA, CPC

Bennet Kpentey is the founder and Chief Executive of Sync Consult. He has fifteen years professional experience and has consulted for clients in the private and public sectors as well as international and multilateral agencies including the World Bank, DFID, UNDP, The Netherlands Embassy and DANIDA. His expertise covers strategy, business valuation and economic development and has managed several consulting assignments in the development of strategy, due diligence, business valuation, financial modelling, project finance and economic analysis. He is the originator and lead facilitator of “Business Valuation Excellence”, “Advanced Business Valuation” and “Financial Modelling”, thought-leadership courses for professionals in investment, banking, accounting, finance and business valuation in Ghana. He is a certified training instructor for the CVA credential training in business valuation by the international business valuation body, IACVA. Bennet is currently a Part Time Lecturer in “Strategic Management” at the Executive MBA Programme at the University of Ghana Business School, Legon.

Among his recent professional achievements, he developed a Market Beta Report for the Ghana Stock Exchange in 2007. He is the President of the Ghana Charter of the International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA) with oversight responsibilities for Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and The Gambia. In addition to serving on the IACVA World Council, he is the Representative of IACVA on the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC), the world’s valuation standards setting organisation and has provided input into the International Valuation Standards which will be issued sometime in 2011. He also serves on the IFRS Committee (USA) which was set up in 2010 to make presentations to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on valuation issues arising from the numerous accounting standard exposure drafts on the harmonisation of GAAP and IFRS.

He was one of thirteen international business valuation professionals who co-authored “Guide to Fair Value under IFRS” a complete guide for business valuation under IFRS in May 2010.

Prior to establishing Sync Consult Limited, he worked with Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu and PricewaterhouseCoopers in management positions. At Deloitte & Touché (1995-2000), as Principal Consultant, he played a key role in the setting up and development of the Deloitte & Touché Management Solutions Practice in Ghana. At PricewaterhouseCoopers Africa Central (2000-2002), he had responsibility for corporate finance in Ghana.

Bennet holds an MA in International Relations (Economics Major) from the International University of Japan (1994) and a BA in Economics and Geography from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana (1992). He is a Chartered Professional Consultant (CPC) from the American Consultants League (2000) and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) (2006).

His professional memberships include Strategic Management Society, IVSC, IACVA and (National Association of Certified Valuator Analysts (NACVA), all in the USA.
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