Kenneth Andam

Kenny Andam
Born	Kenneth Ekow Andam January 8, 1976 (1976-01-08) Sekondi-Takoradi
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brigham Young University Colorado Technical University
Occupation	Computer scientist, technology innovator, entrepreneur, athlete
Employer	WorldVuer inc, Orem, Utah Title: Founder and Chairman
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Religion	Mormon
Website
Globa Corporate Website

Kenny Andam

Kenny Andam as an athlete

Kenny Andam before the Olympics in Sydney, Australia in 2000

Kenny Andam: entrepreneur and athlete

Kenny Andam certificates and medals

Kenny Andam with medals from track and field career

Kenneth Andam (born 8 January 1976) is a retired Ghanaian sprinter, an inventor, and an entrepreneur. He attended Brigham Young University and competed on the track team with Leonard Myles-Mills. Running the second leg of BYU's sprint relay, Andam with team mates Leonard Myles-Mills, Thobias Akwenye, and Slade Combs set a new BYU school record of 38.88 seconds.

Biography

Andam won the bronze medal in the 100 meters at the 2000 African Championships and with the Ghana sprint relay team won the gold medal at the same competition. He also competed in the 200 meters at the 1999 World Championships in Sevilla, Spain, and in the sprint relay in the 2000 Olympic Games, and in the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton.[1] His personal best over *100 meters is 10.12 seconds and he is ranked third on BYU men's track and field all time best behind Frank Fredericks and his Ghanaian team mate Leonard Myles-Mills, and his personal best in the 200 meters is 20.47 secs and also ranked third behind Frank Fredericks and Oluyemi Kayode published on BYU track and field website. Accredited to Andam are Western Athletic Conference (WAC) awards, including freshman of the year both indoor and outdoor, Mountain West Conference (MWC) Awards and records for track & field indoors and outdoors, and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All American Honors.

Junior Athlete

During Andam's formative years as an athlete, he won the African Junior championships in the Ivory Coast in 1995 in Bouaké in the Triple jump and the West African championships in the Long Jump in Banjul, Gambia. He also set an inter-regional triple jump record of 16.02 meters in WA, a township in the northern part of Ghana during the 1995 inter-regional championships and was awarded the best male athlete of the competition that year.

Inventor

Andam is also an inventor and a technology innovator in the field of software and specializes in research and development. He has several patents to his name for Medical Claims Data Transfer for PHR's. The software that is protected by this patent allows medical institutions to generate a personal health record for a patient and includes: providing a plurality of medical claim objects that are stored in a first format, the medical claim objects including medical claim codes indicative of medical claim events; and translating the medical claim objects from the first format into a second format to generate personal health record data. The personal health record can also include patient or practitioner entered data. The personal health record is portable and may be owned by the patient. Access to the personal health record can be given by a patient to a practitioner to the extent desired. Another innovative technology solution developed and patented by Andam is a Video Email System. The system provides the supply of electronic messages to a message recipient and includes a message server (110) configured to distribute electronic messages. A plurality of electronic messages can be stored on the message server (110), and the plurality of electronic messages include video output for the message recipient. A message header (114) can be stored on the message server for each electronic message. The message header refers to message blocks (112) for message content and video output. A message client (140) is also configured to first receive the message header when an electronic message is sent to the message recipient and to request the message blocks from the message server when the electronic message is accessed by the message recipient. Another current invention of Andam is an Interactive Visual Search Engine. The engine provides a system and method for searching networked electronic media. The method includes the operation of mapping a user-selected keyword to a category identifier for search result generation in a search engine. A search result can be produced that contains a listing of URLs for the category identifier. Then the search result can be dynamically populated with images through identity mapping of the image to a URL. The search can determine the display images to a URL based on a user's profile, and the URL's popularity with other users sharing a similar user profile. The URLs and an associated image for the search can be obtained through a community of users.

Innovations

Andam, K. Mobile Transaction Processing Software (2007) that delivers m-commerce using WAP, SMS, Online, or installable mobile application frameworks with completed security tools using PKI encryption integration GLOBA PREPAID ME.
Andam, K. Distributor Remote Access Software, Completed and implemented by Morinda.
Andam, K. Access Libraries (1999) Archiving Tool, collaboration with UOD.WorldVuer
Andam, K. Index Processing (2000). Indexer Tool, collaboration with Center for School Improvement and Kenny Andam Company LTD, PINCLICK ONLINE E-LEARNING SYSTEM.
Andam, K. (Completed) Data Mobilizing Platform, Ipina Mobile Platform.
Andam, K. (Completed) Personal Communication Assistants, Advance handheld computing platform for 3G networks, Squanet International Yopi.
Andam, K. (Completed). MuViBox Interface Software; Squanet International, 1999.
Andam, K. (Completed). Globa secured cash money transaction portal and mobile application for local and international transfer of cash retrievable at ATM locations worldwide and also via mobile accounts management. GLOBA.COM.
Andam, K. (Completed) Digital Location Tracking Apparatus, Advance data capturing for remote information communication, Squanet International Inc.
Andam, K. (Developed for integration). Lyric Reader Authoring Tool PINCLICK ONLINE E-LEARNING SYSTEM.
Andam, K. (Completed). Search catalog with image tagging, Zareb

Entrepreneur

A serial entrepreneur, Kenneth Andam founded WorldVuer Inc, a media communications company that has developed proprietary technologies for communicating bandwidth intensive data across any network. He has also founded Globa LTD with Johan Meyer to provided mobile banking and mobile remittance to Africans across the continent and their relatives living abroad. Globa is geared to supply millions of consumers the ability to send, receive, and spend money anywhere using their mobile phone. Globa services can be reviewed at Globa. Globa allows consumers, enterprises, and retailers to participate in a universal mobile commerce and money transfer systems that iseasy to use and secure to implement. Currently Globa partner companies include telecom service providers, financial institutions, merchants, and transaction processing gateways across Africa, Europe, and the USA.

Andam is also founder and chairman of SIDE EQUITY. SIDE EQUITY Ventures (Strategic Investment Diversification for Entrepreneurs (SIDE) is a company that funds projects in the technology, natural resources, and consumables sector, and develops them into startup, early-stage, and growth-stage companies worldwide. SIDE EQUITY also focuses on bridging the African diaspora by introducing investment capital from wealthy Africans into performing markets in the US and Canada as well as bringing investment to projects in Africa. SIDE EQUITY caters to two constituencies: the founders and management of private companies, and SIDE's limited partners (SIDE Residents). SIDE EQUITY facilitates a partnership between portfolio companies and their management teams, and align them with a select group of entrepreneurs from SIDE’s limited resident investors who have expertise in each company’s field of business. Through this union, SIDE EQUITY develops business strategies that provide the framework for portfolio companies to effectively execute their business plan and increase their chances of success and growth.

Businessman

Andam (who uses the first name Kenny in business circles) has been featured in both US-based and international magazines as an entrepreneur. BYU's Marriot Magazine published Andam as a success both on the track as an athlete and also in business in their 2001 summer publication of the Marriot Magazine. Highbeam research published Andam as a mover in the markets when he was appointed CEO of Mobile Wireless Security in Highbeam Research, and blog site amazing black men published him as September 2008 amazine black man on their website.

Philanthropist

Andam has supported charitable initiatives across the globe. He is a major supporter of the Common Thread Foundation, which provides housing for patients in UT who are awaiting heart transplant. The Foundation was established by Jim Morse (a friend of Andam's), and has been a major support for families who cannot afford the medical bills for heart surgery. Andam has also established the Unemployment Service Agency in Ghana, a non-profit organization that teaches entrepreneural skills to unemployed Ghanaians to help them get back into the employment pool or become employers themselves. Andam also works with the IT Girls of Las Vegas and is currently working to provide a platform for Opportunity Village to expand its service outreach to other states in the US who need the same services that Opportunity Village provides to the handicapped citizens of Las Vegas. Andam has also made commitments to the Education is Freedom Foundation to assist in the support of the foundation's inner-city child education initiatives through the supply of technology and a solution to help access capital for the foundation's growth initiatives.

Career

Andam currently serves as chairman of Kenny Andam Company Limited Kenny Andam Company, an investment company in the US and Africa; it has a portfolio of projects called "SIDE" (Selective Investment Diversification for Entrepreneurs) comprising a series of technology companies, infrastructure development companies, and entertainment companies established to deliver consumers targeted products and services designed to bring efficiency, competence, and help reduce cost in the home or business environment. Andam established SIDE to allow small- to medium-size investors looking for angel investment opportunities to put their capital to work in different businesses in the US, Africa and countries around the world. Currently SIDE comprises twenty innovative business opportunities that have been developed from concept and incubation stage to product realization and company launch. Each of the projects listed has intellectual property or market uniqueness that give a fair advantage for potential future success in their target industry. Andam worked with a diversified team of engineers, software developers, business analysts, and entrepreneurs to create the framework for SIDE, having coined the term SIDE to institute a new method of investing geared towards investors’ interest in focused projects within a select market segment. The investors who participate in the SIDE project get an opportunity to participate in the creation of an executive team and management team for each SIDE company. The investors for each SIDE project also take responsibility for contributing industry expertise and contacts to benefit the growth of the business.

Andam is also chairman of WorldVuer Inc WorldVuer Inc, a communications and online media publishing company that he founded in 2004 after six years of research and development. WorldVuer Inc is a leading provider of a media publishing and communications platform that enterprises and consumers use in publishing their video content and data efficiently to websites, desktop clients, mobile devices, and to the television using live casting. WorldVuer's technology provides new ways to efficiently deliver bandwidth intensive data and content at minimal cost. WorldVuer's technology has had impact within the American deaf community as a flagship product providing an efficient way for deaf people to communicate. Currently, WorldVuer is also in the process of launching its direct sales industry product and general public professional communications platform. This product is built for consumers and enterprises looking for new ways to communicate online using video. Applications offered include video conferencing and chat, video messaging, events publishing and management, and other suites that enhances video communications for enterprises and consumers. Andam is currently spearheading an international introduction and launch of WorldVuer in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Andam also founded Zareb LLC, an online catalog designed to service the search and information sharing online communities of the World with James Jensen and Jared Weinman. As the CEO he has funded the development of Zareb's online search engine and internet catalog, aiming to make Zareb a global standard for image search and interactive data sharing for both the consumer sector and enterprise sector. At Zareb Andam is responsible for design and architecture, and also oversees the R&D department. Andam has the responsibility for implementing Zareb's search tools and catalog administration and has monitored core components of the development life-cycle to effectively functionality to its user community. The grass-roots introduction of Zareb's innovative community-driven search engine aims to deliver to internet surfers a safe and easy way to access websites and content on the internet, providing parents and families with a simple interface for educating children and the elderly on the use of the internet.Zareb Zareb is the world's first click-and-access search engine, and also provides protective tools to prevent intrusive content from penetrating the surfer's network. Zareb is currently operating in the United States as an independent search and media-sharing company, with the aim of growing into international markets.

Before founding WorldVuer and Zareb, Andam served as Chairman and CTO of Squanet International Inc, a company he founded in 1999 and sold to CelluVision Technologies in November 2002. Squanet developed the first Linux-based PCA with a Korean joint venture partner GMate. Squanet focused after the development and sale of the PCA on developing a media convergence suite of applications and a series of distributive network tools which made it very attractive for acquisition by CelluVision Technologies. Andam contracted to serve as CTO of Celluvision Technologies after the acquisition and completed a one year service contract agreement to assist in the transfer of all intellectual property from Squanet to the CelluVision team. Before successfully managing the Communications and technology development for Squanet International Inc, he served as a telecommunications consultant and lead developer for NTTDoCoMo of Japan during the deployment of i-mode and the introduction of FOMA, and also for Virgin Mobile of the UK on their M-Clinical project. Andam has also managed the information Systems departments for Lenderlab Inc, the Internet's Largest & most comprehensive Loan Search Engine and Morinda in their information systems department. He was part of the development team that built Morinda's first distributor access portal and information network. He started his career at the window division of Microsoft Inc, the worlds leading provider of operating system software for desktop computing.

Andam is currently involved in other projects in Africa, including the recent deployment of the continent's first interactive mobile enablement platform that his company in South Africa is supplying to mobile networks across the continent to help them deliver data-driven applications and mobile commerce at cheap rates to consumers. [www.ipina.com Ipina] is an innovative platform that mobilizes enterprise and consumer data and also empowers telecommunications service providers to deliver value-added services to their clients.

Andam is a Latter-day Saint.

Personal bests

Outdoor

Distance	Time (seconds)	Wind	Location	Date
100 metres	10.12	+ 0.4 m/s	Utah	June 2001
200 metres	20.47	+ 2.0 m/s	Utah	May 1999
Long jump	7.67 m	+ 1.2 m/s	Los Angeles	May 1998
Triple jump	16.02 m	+ 0.0 m/s	Ghana	May 1995

Indoor

Event	Best	Location	Date
55 metres	6.12 s	Idaho	February 1998
60 metres	6.59 s	Utah	March 2003
200 metres	21.07 s	Colorado Springs	February 1998
Long jump	7.62 m	Colorado Springs	February 1998

References

• IAAF profile for Kenneth Andam

External links

Media related to Kenneth Andam at Wikimedia Commons