In its 2025 Spotlight on Ghana edition, Forbes Africa featured CIPA Holdings Group for its role in driving Ghana’s green transition and helping shape a new model for climate-smart infrastructure development in the country. This feature recognizes CIPA as a Ghanaian-born climate-resilient infrastructure agency that is redefining how clean energy and sustainable infrastructure projects are developed, financed and delivered within the region’s economic landscape.
As Ghana’s transition challenges increasingly focus on credibility, affordability and domestic participation, Forbes Africa highlights CIPA’s integrated governance-first approach that bridges policy alignment, project development, financing and implementation. This model positions the Group as one of the institutions that will help take Ghana’s green transition ambitions beyond policy frameworks and towards bankable on-the-ground realities.
At the center of this effort is Kwaku Osei Sarpong, founder and chief executive officer of CIPA Holdings Group. Under his leadership, CIPA has become a key platform supporting Ghana’s transition to clean energy, electromobility, digital infrastructure and climate-smart investments, while maintaining strong local ownership and organizational discipline.
“Africa doesn’t just need new infrastructure; it needs new trust institutions. CIPA’s mission is to build both,” Osei Sarpong told Forbes Africa.
The Forbes Africa recognition adds to Osei Sarpong’s list of accolades, which include Gulf News UAE’s Ghana feature, interview on The Energy Year, Rising Star of the Year at the 2024 Ghana Energy Awards, 40 Under 40 Award for Environmental and Climate Sustainability, West African Noble Award for Integrity and Business Excellence, Enactus Global Leadership Award, and World Top Listing. 100 Most Influential African Youths and 100 Ghanaians of Noble Temperament.
Accra-headquartered CIPA Holdings’ activities in Ghana form the basis of a broader pan-African strategy. As the group aggressively expands its development footprint across West and Southern Africa, Ghana remains a key testing ground for approaches to climate-smart infrastructure, industrial decarbonization and clean energy financing.
“We combine strong governance and innovative financing with real local ownership,” said Bright Yamoah, Chief Financial Officer of CIPA Holdings. “After nearly 20 years working in Ghana’s capital markets and advising clients across Africa, I have learned that credibility is currency. At CIPA, we manage risk with discipline and innovate with purpose.”
Providing comprehensive organizational guidance is Alan Okomen-Mensah, President of CIPA Holdings. Four decades of experience in the engineering and infrastructure sector in Ghana and Africa strengthens the company’s reputation for technical reliability, value for money delivery and good corporate governance. His leadership strengthens CIPA’s position as a trusted Ghanaian institution capable of delivering complex infrastructure solutions at scale.
CIPA’s governance architecture remains central to its role in Ghana’s green transition. The organization is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of infrastructure developers, engineers, project managers, financial strategists, and subject matter experts whose combined expertise pays rigorous attention to quality, risk, and accountability. This integrated institutional model allows CIPA to seamlessly move from concept development to project construction and implementation, creating a single trusted platform for government agencies, industrial operators, commercial customers, and investors.
CIPA’s growing portfolio in Ghana focuses on clean energy, including solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), natural gas, and clean transportation infrastructure that enhances power reliability for public institutions, industry, commercial facilities, and communities. The Group also provides housing and real estate development, as well as critical public sector and digital infrastructure, strengthening its position as a developer of climate-smart integrated assets.
CIPA’s work in Ghana is characterized by an industrial and commercial decarbonization program purposefully built around local currency financing and delivery. This approach addresses a long-standing gap in the market where clean energy projects have historically relied on foreign currency financing, exposing Ghanaian companies to currency risk and limiting adoption.
The program supports manufacturers, mining companies, agro-processors, logistics companies, pharmaceutical companies, industrial parks, and large commercial facilities such as malls, hotels, office parks, and mixed-use developments. CIPA enables companies to modernize operations, reduce emissions, and improve reliability through solar and hybrid energy systems, battery and energy storage integration, energy efficiency upgrades, process electrification, and advanced digital monitoring systems. By promoting electromobility through electric vehicles, fleet charging solutions and smart digital technologies, CIPA positions itself as a long-term partner for businesses seeking competitiveness and resilience in Ghana’s evolving energy landscape.
CIPA also promotes local clean technology manufacturing as part of its green industry efforts. The partnership with Canada’s Spark Systems, which will assemble microinverters in Ghana, is a strategic step toward technology transfer, local capacity building, and the development of a domestic clean energy supply chain that supports Ghana’s industrialization goals.
In mobilizing finance for Ghana’s transition, CIPA is working closely with major financial institutions to develop local currency financing frameworks for renewable energy and clean technology projects. As a project developer and co-investor, CIPA will work with domestic financial partners to deploy its own funds, align long-term interests, and strengthen confidence in the project’s realization. By initiating, developing and co-investing in bankable projects, the Group helps unlock domestic capital and demonstrates how Ghana’s unique financial ecosystem can play a central role in financing the green transition.
Beyond infrastructure provision, CIPA promotes inclusion through the CIPA Foundation, which focuses on women’s economic empowerment, youth development, climate resilience and green job creation. This will ensure that Ghana’s green transition delivers social and economic benefits as well as environmental outcomes.
For Forbes Africa, CIPA represents a new generation of institutions in Ghana, helping to move the country’s infrastructure from dependence to self-determination, based on governance, local ownership and long-term value creation.
“Being featured in Forbes is a reflection of what happens when a team believes in excellence. It is a recognition of the ability, discipline and reliability of Ghanaians,” says Alan Okomen-Mensah.
About CIPA Holdings Group
CIPA Holdings Group Limited is a pan-African climate-resilient infrastructure company founded in Ghana that develops, co-invests and delivers sustainable solutions across clean energy, public infrastructure, digital systems, electromobility, housing and real estate, and climate-smart agriculture. Its mission is to empower governments, industry, commercial customers, and communities through climate-smart investments and integrated infrastructure delivery.
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