Forbes Africa has spotlighted CIPA Holdings Group in its 2025 Ghana Edition, recognising the Ghanaian-founded climate-resilient infrastructure institution for its growing role in financing, structuring and delivering sustainable infrastructure across Africa.
The feature highlights CIPA’s governance-first institutional model, which integrates policy alignment, project development and technical execution to support the continent’s transition to clean, reliable and inclusive infrastructure.
CIPA Holdings Group is led by its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kwaku Osei-Sarpong, whose leadership has positioned the company as a contributor to Ghana’s evolving green-transition agenda, spanning clean energy, electromobility, digital infrastructure and climate-aligned investment frameworks.
“Africa doesn’t just need new infrastructure; it needs new institutions of trust. Our mission at CIPA is to build both,” Mr. Osei-Sarpong told Forbes Africa.
The recognition adds to a growing list of local and international honours for Mr. Osei-Sarpong, including accolades from the Ghana Energy Awards, Enactus Global, Gulf News UAE, and listings among Africa’s most influential young leaders.
Headquartered in Accra, CIPA Holdings is expanding its Pan-African footprint, with active engagements and development pipelines across Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Zambia and South Africa, reflecting its ambition to support governments, industries and commercial clients seeking climate-aligned and resilient infrastructure solutions.
Chief Financial Officer Bright Yamoah said credibility and disciplined risk management remain central to the Group’s operating model.
“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,” he noted.
Providing institutional oversight is Allan Okomeng-Mensah, President of CIPA Holdings, whose more than four decades of experience in engineering and infrastructure across Africa underpin the company’s focus on technical reliability, value-for-money delivery and corporate governance.
CIPA operates through a multidisciplinary team of infrastructure developers, engineers, project managers, financial strategists and sector specialists, enabling projects to move from concept and structuring to delivery within a single institutional framework. This approach reduces execution risk for governments, investors and commercial partners while strengthening accountability and quality control.
The Group’s portfolio spans solar power, battery-energy storage systems (BESS), natural gas and clean transportation infrastructure, aimed at improving power reliability for public institutions, industries and commercial facilities. It is also active in housing and real estate, public-sector infrastructure and renewable-powered digital systems.
In Ghana, CIPA is advancing an industrial and commercial decarbonisation programme to support manufacturers, mining companies, agro-processors, logistics firms, pharmaceutical companies and large commercial facilities in transitioning to lower-carbon and more efficient operations. A key feature of the programme is its emphasis on local-currency financing, addressing long-standing challenges linked to foreign-currency exposure that have constrained clean-energy adoption by domestic businesses.
Through solar and hybrid systems, energy-efficiency upgrades, battery storage, process electrification and digital monitoring, CIPA supports enterprises seeking improved reliability and reduced emissions. The programme also incorporates electromobility solutions, including electric vehicles, fleet-charging infrastructure and smart digital integration.
As part of its clean-technology industrialisation strategy, CIPA is establishing local assembly capacity for renewable-energy components. Its first initiative—a partnership with Canada-based Sparq Systems—will see microinverters assembled in Ghana for selected African markets, supporting technology transfer, reducing system costs and strengthening Ghana’s position in clean-energy supply chains.
Aligned with Ghana’s sustainable-development objectives, CIPA is working with domestic financial institutions to structure local-currency financing frameworks for renewable-energy and clean-technology projects. The Group’s developer-led approach focuses on originating and preparing projects to ensure technical soundness, commercial viability and alignment with national priorities, enabling institutional and private investors to participate with greater confidence.
Beyond infrastructure delivery, CIPA operates the CIPA Foundation, which supports initiatives in women’s economic empowerment, youth development, climate resilience and green-jobs creation. The Foundation integrates gender and youth participation into project frameworks to deliver broader social and economic benefits.
Forbes Africa notes that CIPA represents a new archetype of African institution that combines climate justice objectives with the discipline of project finance.
“Being featured in Forbes reflects what happens when a team believes in excellence. It is a recognition of Ghanaian capacity, discipline and credibility,” Mr. Okomeng-Mensah said.
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