Hermany Chinery-Hesse is the founder and CEO of SOFTtribe, the largest software company in Ghana and one of the largest in all of Africa. After completing his engineering degree at Texas State University-San Marcos, Chinery-Hesse returned to his native Ghana in the 1990s to launch SOFTtribe, which creates business solutions software. Nearly two decades later, he is widely considered the "Bill Gates of Africa," and has recently launched www.shopafrica53.com, a website that allows African entrepreneurs and artists to sell their products to a world-wide market.