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Dr. Appiah is a co-founder of The African Network, Inc. (TAN) and has been on TAN’s Board since its founding. As chairman of TAN, Dr. Appiah is responsible for leading the TAN Board in setting the strategic direction of the organization and in working with the executive team to realize TAN’s strategic goals. Previously, Dr. Appiah served TAN in the dual roles of director of finance and as the director of membership.
Outside of TAN, Kojo works as an Engineering Advisor at Analog Devices in San Jose, CA. Previously, he held technical leadership positions in new product development at Spansion, Inc, and prior to Spansion, he was with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA. Kojo has also been involved in a number of entrepreneurial and investment ventures in several areas.
Dr. Appiah holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering with a sub-specialty in Management of Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Toby Cumberbatch was educated at The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, in Manchester, England. His first job was with GEC Telecommunications in Coventry developing software-controlled telephone exchanges. After gaining his doctorate he started work on the development of novel coating methods for II-VI thin film solar cells at the Thorn-EMI Central Research Laboratories in 1980. He extended this work at the University of Cambridge and then moved to the Interdisciplinary Research Center in Superconductivity to work on the deposition of superconducting oxide films.
Dr. Cumberbatch emigrated to the USA in 1991 to join Quadic Systems Inc., a small integrated circuit design company in Southern Maine. He joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at The Cooper Union in 1994 where he established the Electronic Materials Laboratory in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed a Visiting Professor at The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana and returns regularly to East and West Africa.