Chief Executive Officer for IT consultancy & outsourcing firm Liranz Limited, Nicholas Bortey has won the Promising Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2019 Edition of Ghana Business Awards.

The Ghana Business Awards is a prestigious awards programme that recognises and rewards excellence across all sectors in Ghana. It provides a platform to recognise individuals and companies that play a significant role in the growth and development of their business sector.

Commenting on the awards, he said: “My motivation was quite simple and was clear from the start. The basic mission was to evolve the traditional break-fix IT business into a professional IT support and Managed Services in Ghana and in the West African sub-region”.

Mr. Bortey has over the years redefined world class IT business solutions for enterprises which has enhanced their business operations and optimized their performance in Ghana and the West Africa region.

Through his wealth of experience at the top managerial level of several high-profile companies in the country, he is steadily changing the face of IT service delivery in the Ghana and West Africa region.

Over the past few years, through hard work and his commitment to excellence, he has been able together put together a team that has developed strong relationships with clients in various sectors including oil and gas, financial services, legal services, logistics & transportation, healthcare, non-governmental agencies, real estate, agriculture, education, law firm, media, mining start-ups etc.

At Liranz Limited, He offers strategic and executive level governance to the growth and development of the company. He serves as a Virtual Chief Technology Officer (offering strategic and technical advice) as an add-on service for all His Clients. As a hands-on and result driven person, He is constantly seeking for cost-cutting and efficient ways optimize the Information Technology systems for the company and His Clients.

A marketing-savvy Personnel from birth, He doubles His executive roles with traditional and digital marketing consultancy. Numerous contracts and deals have been brokered under His tutelage and guidance.

A recipient of numerous awards including; “Man of the Year Information Technology” by the Exclusive Men of the Year (EMY) Africa Awards 2018, the best innovation & technology entrepreneur of the year 2017 by Ghana Entrepreneurs and Corporate Executives (GECE) Awards 2017, 40 under forty innovation & technology category winner 2017, Young ICT entrepreneur of the year 2017 by Ghana Information Technology Telecommunications Awards.

His demand for accountability and transparency has earned him a seat International Nobles forum and an inductee of the West Africa Nobles Forum 2018. The Confederation of West African Youths have also acknowledged him as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Persons in West Africa. He has also being nominated in the Ghana’s 50 most influential and Ghana’s 100 most influential. These and many others.