ABOUT US

Tallmast’s primary business is to connect high quality originators / financial institutions
with investors in Ghana’s capital market through the vehicle of securitization.
Tallmast will create and sponsor various special purpose vehicles to issue bonds to finance the purchase of assets with regular cashflows. Tallmast Company Limited (Tallmast) is a 100% subsidiary of DCM Holdings, a wholly owned Ghanaian company. The first company sponsored to start the securitization program is Controller ABS Limited. Controller ABS specializes in the securitization of consumer loans issued to public sector employees.

  • Our People

    Tallmast believes that its greatest asset is its people. Hence, we believe in the training, equipping and development of our people to drive the business strategies of the Company.

  • Team work

    At Tallmast, we value relationships and appreciate the efforts and diversities of the collective. We believe that healthy team relationships among staff and other service providers will accelerate our growth and potential. By building a healthy but competitive team environment, Tallmast will become an unrivalled player in the financial services industry in West Africa.

  • Growth Focused

    At Tallmast, we aspire to grow our reach and impact in the financial sector. We are inspired to grow our reach and positively impact the financial sectors we operate in. We require our staff to have a growth mindset and challenge themselves to cover new grounds.

  • Integrity

    Integrity is crucial to the brand and product that Tallmast offers. The investing public and partner organization should be confident of our underwriting standards and trust that we will demonstrate integrity in our dealings with them. As such, Tallmast expects a high level of integrity from its management, staff and other stakeholders.

  • Innovation

    Asset-backed securities is an innovative financial product that Tallmast is introducing to the Ghanaian capital market. Thus, everyone at Tallmast is encouraged to create, imagine, innovate and contribute new and unique ideas. These new and unique ideas will allow us to grow and expand, improve work processes and challenge the way we do things.
Mission

Tallmast is committed to providing high quality securitization services through:

1. Identifying high quality originators working across various sectors.
2. Performing a comprehensive evaluation and analysis of our originators ensuring alignment with our stringent underwriting frameworks.
3.Utilizing financial tools to tailor securitization products to match the risk profiles of different categories of investors on the capital market.

Vision
The vision of Tallmast Company Limited is to be recognized as the leading provider of financial solutions that provide liquidity and deepen the financial market in Ghana and the sub-Saharan African countries through securitization.

Meet Our Team

Tallmast Company Limited has a group of specially trained, dedicated staff and board to provide professional
services to our customers

Derrick Darkwah – General Manager

Mr. Derrick Darkwah is the General Manager of Tallmast Company Limited. Prior to joining Tallmast, he served as the head of operations at Petra Trust Company. Derrick is a seasoned accountant with extensive experience in asset management. He was instrumental in setting up and structuring the operations team and fund administration software of Petra Trust Company Limited, one of the top three pension trustees in Ghana. He was the project leader for the installation, configuration and maintenance of Microgen 5 Series (fund administration software) to suit the operations of Petra Trust.

Derrick graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Higher Honors) from Ashesi University. He is also a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (UK).

Timothy Schandorf – Senior Securities Operations Analyst

Mr. Timothy N. A Schandorf is a senior securities operations analyst at Tallmast Company Limited. Prior to joining Tallmast, he served as the lead portfolio manager at Petra Trust Company Limited. Timothy oversaw the development and implementation of portfolio strategy as well as accounting for over $150m of pension fund assets. As the project leader, Timothy was instrumental in the sourcing, installation, migration and configuration of Binfolio 3.0 (portfolio management software) to improve portfolio operations at Petra Trust.

Timothy graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Cum Laude) from Ashesi University. He holds the Ghana Securities Industry Certificate and is currently pursuing an Msc in Development Finance at the University of Ghana Business School.

Kingsley Agyekum – Securities Operations Analyst

Mr. Kingsley Agyekum is a securities operations analyst at Tallmast Company Limited. He joined the Tallmast team a year after he graduated from Ashesi University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (First Class Honours). He has had experience working with the Mastercard Foundation and Ashesi University as a research consultant.

Kingsley is also a student of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (UK).

Kojo Bentsi-Enchill

Mr. Kojo Bentsi-Enchill is the chairman of the board of directors. He is the senior partner at the law firm, Bentsi-Enchill Letsa & Ankomah. He is a highly regarded corporate lawyer both in Ghana and has a passionate commitment to providing commercial solutions to client concerns.

Mr. Kojo Bentsi-Enchill graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon with LL.B. in 1973; Ghana Law School (QCL.,1975). He did Post Graduate Research on Mining Concessions Law, 1874 -1962 at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the J. Donaldson Bye-Fellowship, 1978-1979. After Cambridge, Kojo worked as an Assistant Program Officer in the International Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, New York between 1982-1984. He then worked as a Foreign Associate with Shearman & Sterling, LLP, and New York from 1984 -1986, he worked in teams involved in international LNG arbitration, and then bank finance. Kojo returned to Ghana in 1988 and set up the firm, which has grown to 8 Partners and 35 Associates.

Yaw Benneh-Amponsah

Mr. Yaw Benneh-Amponsah is the managing director of Merson Capital. He previously served as the CFO at Geodrill Limited for about 10 years. During his tenure, Geodrill’s revenues and profitability grew by over 26 times. He was involved in the founding and listing of Azumah Resources Limited and Castle Minerals Limited on the Australian Stock Exchange.

He holds a BSc Business Administration (Banking and Finance) from the University of Ghana and a PGDip Financial Strategy from Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK.

Ama Bawuah

Ms. Ama Sarpong Bawuah, is the head of Communications and Public Affairs for Coca Cola Equatorial Africa. With responsibility for nine countries including Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe, Ama is responsible for stakeholder engagement and government relations, establishing relations and working effectively with external stakeholders to create opportunities for the facilitation of the company's operations.

A strategic management executive, Ms. Bawuah has several years experience and a comprehensive knowledge of innovative solutions and best practices in public affairs and communications. Her core competencies include management strategy and usiness development, applied analytics of client relation metrics and a hands-on deal origination, structuring and execution. She also worked as Vice President for Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank’s Global Transaction Services in New York and was the West Africa Director for the Whitaker Group.

Kofi Fynn

Mr. Kofi Fynn is a director of Tallmast Company Limited. Currently, he is the managing director of Petra Trust Company Ltd. Kofi joined Oceanic Capital Company Limited as the Chief Operating Officer in charge of asset management. Before that he was an associate partner at ellington Management Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Wellington Management is a global asset management firm with more than $550 billion of assets under management. As the lead portfolio manager for central banks and international organization mandates, Kofi managed a portfolio totaling $4 billion in assets. This was broadly distributed among pension fund, reserve fund and sovereign wealth fund mandates from some of the largest institutions in Asia and Africa.

Kofi earned both bachelors and a master’s degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Chris Hammond

Mr. Chris Hammond is a director of Tallmast Company Limited. Currently, he is the deputy managing director of Petra Trust. Prior to Petra Trust, he served as the Chief Finance Officer of Aerocontractors Company of Nigeria (ACN). In his position as CFO, Chris oversaw ACN’s finance, purchasing and information and computer Technology teams and was central to the company’s strategy and business development. Before working with ACN, he worked as an investment banker with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC in New York. In his role at Credit Suisse, Chris focused on providing an advisory and execution services to clients, primarily private equity clients, in leveraged buyouts, sell-side and IPO transactions across various industries.

Chris graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Highest Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university. He also holds an MBA from The Sloan School Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.