Ebenezer Essuman-Amankwah is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of CEQA Foods and Beverages Ghana Limited, the parent company of Pizzaman Chickenman. Since co-founding the business in 2018, he has been the operational force behind one of Ghana's most remarkable entrepreneurial success stories by growing a campus-born food venture into a 77-branch national enterprise with over 1,500 employees and more than one million customers served.

With a solid background in Mathematics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ebenezer brings together strong analytical thinking and hard-won operational experience. His leadership is defined by a belief that great systems, great people, and a genuine commitment to customers are what separate good businesses from enduring ones.

Ebenezer's path to the boardroom was neither straight nor easy and that is precisely what makes it worth telling. From an early age, he understood that ambition without action leads nowhere. After Basic School, he worked as a Salesperson at a mobile banking firm in Accra. After Senior High School, he spent two years as a Field Supervisor at MFC Venture-K Ltd., a wood processing company in Tema, a role that demanded maturity and discipline well beyond his years.

Determined to pursue higher education, he secured a place at KNUST to study Mathematics, working during vacations as a Clearing Agent at Tema Port under Kobden Logistics Co. Ltd. to support himself through university. He graduated with Honours, a reflection not just of intellectual ability, but of the work ethic and resolve that have characterised every chapter of his career.

It was in his final year at KNUST that the idea that would become Pizzaman Chickenman took shape. Partnering with his roommate and co-founder, Christian Boakye Yiadom, Ebenezer helped channel a shared entrepreneurial drive into action. In January 2018, from a small rented apartment near campus, the two began selling pizza by the slice. Ebenezer was the steady hand that encouraged full commitment to the venture, and the operational mind that ensured it could grow.

As Pizzaman Chickenman scaled rapidly from Kumasi into Accra and across the country, Ebenezer's role evolved into that of the company's chief architect of operational excellence. He designed and implemented integrated systems spanning supply chain, logistics, and workforce management by building the kind of structural backbone that allows a multi-branch enterprise to maintain quality and consistency at scale.

Under his leadership, CEQA introduced a 24-hour service model, developed and deployed the Chris B proprietary digital ordering platform, and co-developed Keks, a bespoke Human Resource Management mobile application purpose-built to support a large, geographically distributed workforce. Each of these initiatives reflects Ebenezer's conviction that technology, thoughtfully applied, is one of the most powerful tools available to a growing business.

Ebenezer's entrepreneurial ambition extends well beyond the food industry. He is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Altin Technologies Limited, where he leads the development of enterprise resource management systems, oversees five integrated digital platforms, and directed the design of a courier application built for last-mile logistics optimisation. He also serves as Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Chairman of Open Wunde Solutions, bringing both operational and governance leadership to the organisation.

Together, these ventures reflect a consistent pattern: Ebenezer identifies where systems are broken or absent, and builds the structures needed to fix them.

Mr Essuman-Amankwah is a committed advocate for youth entrepreneurship and leadership development. He has served as a Facilitator for the Global Field Immersion Program at Harvard Business School (2023-2024), and has spoken at major platforms, including Trailblazers Unite at the University of Professional Studies, Accra; the Think It, Fund It pitch initiative at KNUST; and the SRC Akwaaba Summit at the University of Energy and Natural Resources. Beyond the boardroom, Ebenezer maintains a keen interest in research into business operation efficiency. He believes that exploring how systems, processes, and technology can be continuously refined to unlock greater organisational performance. He is equally passionate about fostering a culture of collaboration among young entrepreneurs, believing that the next generation of African business leaders will achieve far more through partnership than in isolation.

His message to young people is one he has lived himself: start where you are, use what you have, and trust the process. At the heart of everything he does lies a philosophy as simple as it is profound that every season of preparation, every unremarkable role, and every year spent mastering the fundamentals is not time lost, but time working in your favour. For Ebenezer Essuman-Amankwah, this is not merely a mindset. It is a conviction: Time Is God.