Ashifi Gogo co-founded

Sproxil Sproxil is an American venture capital-backed for-profit company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that provides a consumer product verification service (called Mobile Authentication Service or MAS) to help consumers avoid purchasing counterfe ...

in 2009 to fight the proliferation of counterfeit drugs in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Education

Gogo received a Bachelor of Arts degree from

Whitman College Whitman College is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Washington. The school offers 53 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences, and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacific ...

in 2005, earning a double major in Mathematics and Physics. He received his PhD in Engineering from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

. He also attended his early education in

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. He was at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology primary and Junior High School.

Honors and awards

Gogo was named t
Fortune's 2005 '40 under 40' list
of the most influential business people.

References

Whitman College alumni Thayer School of Engineering alumni {{US-business-bio-stub