1. Bennet Kpentey is a strategy and finance consultant with twenty years professional experience. His
professional areas of concentration are strategy development, corporate finance, advisory services and
business valuation to support M&A transactions. He is the Chief Executive and Managing Consultant of
Sync Consult, a management and financial consulting Firm operating from Ghana. He is a part-time
lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Ghana Business School. Bennet has provided
services for a broad spectrum of clients including GE, World Bank, IFC, Bank of Ghana, Ministry of
Finance, UNDP, London School of Economics, and a host of private enterprises across several sectors.
Earlier, and among his experience, Bennet worked with Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu and
PricewaterhouseCoopers in management positions. At Deloitte & Touché (1995-2000) as Principal
Consultant, he was involved in the setting up and development of the Deloitte Touché Management
Solutions Practice in Ghana. At PricewaterhouseCoopers Africa Central (2000-2002), he served in
management position and was responsible for corporate finance in Ghana.
Bennet has provided leadership is advisory work for a cumulative transaction size in excess of USD 1.0
billion for projects across West Africa.
Bennet is the President of the African Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (AACVA) a
member organisation of the world’s largest business valuation organisation, NACVA of the United States.
He served 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. Bennet also co-authored the Enterprise Map, a book on the industrial sector of Ghana I
2012. He, in addition, 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.
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). He is currently pursuing a
Ph.D. in Finance at the Walden University in Minnesota, USA
His professional memberships include AACVA, NACVA and the Strategic Management Society all in the
USA.