When directors need to interrogate technology properly.
Technology risk, AI governance, cyber and digital resilience, vendor concentration, innovation portfolios, transformation investment and accountability.
Advisory
Digital judgement for boards, institutions and regulated markets.
Ethel supports leaders who need to understand the strategic implications of technology, govern digital risk and move from ambition to accountable delivery.
Advisory scope
For decisions where technology has become a governance, regulation or market question.
The work is not a technology presentation. It is the work of helping senior teams decide what to approve, what to govern, what to fund, what to sequence, what to stop and what to explain.
When the opportunity is real but the exposure is not yet understood.
Open banking, digital payments, stablecoins, virtual assets, fintech partnerships, customer trust, compliance exposure and market positioning.
When internal systems have to meet a higher standard.
Technology governance, control environments, standards-readiness, information-security requirements, operating discipline and practical implementation support.
When the right people need to be in the same room.
Structured conversations between regulators, banks, fintechs, insurers, investors, payment actors and public institutions before issues harden into crises or superficial consensus.
How the work lands
Clear advice. Practical decisions. Accountable execution.
Advisory can take the form of board briefings, executive workshops, policy-market intelligence notes, strategic reviews, governance design or implementation support.
Executive briefing
A focused session to help leaders understand a technology, policy or market shift and its implications.
Strategic review
A sharper assessment of digital priorities, risks, institutional readiness, governance gaps and delivery options.
Execution support
Ongoing advisory to help translate decisions into operating models, partnerships, governance routines and delivery discipline.
Selected institutional work
Concrete settings, not abstract digital strategy.
The examples below are grouped to show the kinds of institutional problems Ethel is brought into, without turning the page into a CV.
Board-level technology oversight
Old Mutual Ghana
Technology and innovation oversight at board level for a regulated financial-services institution, where digital transformation, technology risk, customer change, investment decisions and institutional accountability need to be understood by directors, not only by management.
Public digital infrastructure
Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications
Board-level work connected to digital inclusion, connectivity, infrastructure financing, public value and the long-term institutional choices behind national digital access.
Institutional systems and assurance
STAR-Ghana Foundation
Technology advisory and governance support to strengthen internal systems, controls and standards-readiness, including support for ISO-aligned technology and information-security requirements.
Financial-sector market intelligence
Future of Finance Dialogues Africa
Convening regulators, banks, fintechs, insurers, payment providers, investors and infrastructure actors around open banking, virtual assets, stablecoins, digital trust and the future of African finance.
ICT and fintech ecosystem work
Development Bank Ghana ecosystem dialogue
Structuring and moderating conversations on how Ghana’s ICT and fintech ecosystem connects to capital, including the gap between innovation, bankability, financing and institutional readiness.
National capability-building
GTEC digital skills validation work
Technical work linking digital skills validation, employability, AI readiness and the connection between education systems and future workforce needs.
Advisory inquiry
For decisions that need more than a technology presentation.
Use the form to start a board advisory, policy-market intelligence, regulated-sector strategy or digital execution inquiry.