Washington, DC · Accra, Ghana

Kwame Bissah

Financial Technology | Digital Assets | Strategic Partnerships & Market Expansion

I spend my days between Washington, DC and Accra. The work sits where financial services, technology and real commercial work meet: building relationships, growing accounts, and connecting the people who need each other, on both sides of the water and in the lanes between.

These days I do that in fintech, at Array. I also work on the ground in Ghana, helping businesses and agribusiness opportunities find their shape.

What keeps me interested is how payments, digital assets and financial infrastructure can make it easier for people to step into new markets and feel sure about it.

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Map of the Atlantic: Washington, DC to Accra and back A map of the US East Coast, the Atlantic Ocean and West Africa. A gold route arcs across the Atlantic between Washington, DC and Accra. Small points light up and connect along the way, like people being brought together, while gold dots of value travel in both directions. Washington, DC Accra NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Map data: Natural Earth

LynchPin Global · Array · Coinbase · Fidelity. Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana.

Background

Accra, the US, and back again

  1. AccraGrew up
  2. United StatesFinancial services
  3. FintechDigital assets & payments
  4. DC ⇄ AccraNow

I grew up in Accra, moved to the US, and built a career there in financial services, then in fintech and digital assets. After a while, the work I was doing and what was happening in African markets started to line up. I saw real room to build something that works on both sides of the water.

So now I work between Washington, DC and Accra. In Ghana I spend time on commercial development and agribusiness: finding the opportunity, doing the homework, and putting the right people in the same room. In the US I still work in fintech. The through-line is the same: relationships, and helping something actually move.

I’m a connector. People come to me less for advice, more for how to get something done, or who they should be talking to.

Experience

What I do

Most of my work comes down to people: building a relationship, growing an account, or connecting someone in the US with someone in Ghana. The numbers below are a few markers. The deep stuff is on my resume.

LynchPin Global

Head of Agribusiness Deal Desk (Consultant)

I help agribusiness and commodity-trade work move in Ghana: finding the opportunity, doing the homework, and putting buyers, suppliers and financing partners in the same room.

Array

Account Executive II

I sell embedded financial technology to banks, fintechs and financial institutions.

Coinbase

Account Executive, Crypto & Digital Assets

I sold to institutions, businesses and high-net-worth clients. I won back a client worth roughly $25M who was leaving for a lower-fee competitor, and helped founder-led protocols launch on Base.

Fidelity Investments

Investment Consultant

I spent my time on relationships. In my best year I delivered 120% of my annual new-assets target.

JPMorgan Chase & Santander Bank

Relationship Banker

This is where I learned the work: sitting with people, sourcing relationships, and helping them grow.

West Virginia University

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration

I studied business administration at West Virginia University. The rest is in the work.

Want the full resume? Ask me on LinkedIn.

LynchPin Global and consultancy

Market Development & Strategic Partnerships

Alongside the fintech work, I spend time in Ghana and West Africa through LynchPin Global and my consultancy. The job is to help a commercial idea become something you can actually work with: find the opportunity, do the homework, and introduce the people who need to be in the room (buyers, suppliers, financing partners).

I’ve gotten used to moving between two business cultures. What looks obvious in Washington isn’t always obvious in Accra, and the other way around. A lot of the work is translation: helping an opportunity turn into a plan, not just a good conversation.

Writing

Featured essays

Opinions and lessons on payments, financial infrastructure, commercial strategy and emerging markets.

All writing

What I believe

One plus one equals two. But one plus one doesn’t always feel like two.

Money runs on math and trust, but people feel it. They get frustrated about it, happy about it, angry about it. Whether I’m working with one person or a whole institution, at the end of the day I’m still dealing with people.

So I start with trust. I try to make people comfortable and stay tuned in to how they actually feel. Then I help them get to a decision they feel good about, one they make with confidence, not on emotion. Making the right call at the right time can feel hard. Helping it feel right is the work.

How money moves is changing. Trust still sits underneath it.

How we record and move value has changed before, and it is changing again. Gold once anchored many monetary systems. Fiat currencies are how most of the world transacts today. Digital assets and newer payments rails sit alongside that system. They are a way to move and settle value, not a simple replacement for everything that came before.

I don’t see this as a straight line from gold to fiat to crypto. Those systems overlap, and they rest on different kinds of trust: in metal, in institutions, in code, and in the people who operate the rails. I’m interested in how payments, digital assets and financial infrastructure can help businesses expand, especially across emerging markets. The human side doesn’t go away.

Off the clock

Soccer, music, travel, people

I’m a huge soccer fan, and I go to games whenever I get the chance. I love music. And I love to travel: Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, Central America and all over the US. Pretty much everywhere except Antarctica and Australia.

I’m a very social person, and community matters to me.

Contact

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