Sam Edem (Samuel Edem Samuel) began his higher education journey at BlueCrest College Ghana, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management before continuing his studies elsewhere and later earning a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Accra Business School (now the University of Gold Coast). It was during his final days at BlueCrest that he launched his first incubator project. Alongside a career spanning business development, corporate advisory, outsourcing, and strategic communications, Sam has founded and co-founded multiple companies. Today, he leads Copy House International—a Nigeria-based startup emerging as a leader in business research and information services. Aside moving on to graduate Best for his HR Class, among other awards for leadership and recognition for his entrepreneurship; he was as a graduate elected President of the Ghana Chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students and during the period served as a leading national and continental voice for varying issues for African Students prominently his pioneer advocacy for a Cedi Tuition for ECOWAS and African students across Ghana’s higher institutions, facilitated the first ever official Immigration Liason Desk for Nigerian students with the Ghana Immigration Service, Initiated the social reorientation campaign, ‘ReThink Nigeria’ as a direct effort to retelling his country’s narrative in the diaspora, among other laudable initiatives.
Here is Sam Edem’s BlueCrest story in his own words: “I arrived at BlueCrest College in August 2014 carrying what I now recognize as an almost obsessive determination to finally get a university education. After several gap years and early exposure to community development work via the local chapter of FECA Nigeria during my post-high school years, I saw this opportunity as my priceless shot at an education for public service.
During the comprehensive orientation session, when Dr. Adjei asked what each of us hoped to achieve beyond college, I didn’t hesitate: I wanted to build a career in public policy, return home, and eventually run for office. At the time, that goal consumed me.
Over the following years, despite personal challenges, I immersed myself in every opportunity the college offered—excelling academically, taking on various leadership roles, and participating in external programs it facilitated. Yet the single most transformative “BlueCrest Advantage” I carried away was exposure to a business education deeply intertwined with technology. I still vividly remember being selected among the students to represent BlueCrest at Agile West Africa in 2015, listening to Mr. Edward Effah—Founder and then-CEO of Fidelity Bank Ghana—share his journey, and holding sidebar conversations with global industry leaders.
Those moments, together with internships and later corporate exposures, broadened my perspective on meaningful contribution far beyond jumping straight into public service after college. Classroom discussions, projects, campus activities, and especially the incubator program—though driven by the IT department yet fully open to Business School students like me—crystallised into my first serious business experiment: a startup I co-founded that became my first full-time engagement after BlueCrest.
It’s been over half a decade since those formative years. I have since completed my bachelor’s and earned a master’s degree while building a career that spans corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and emerging expertise in public policy. Yet I still look to that community as the best thing that happened to me that decade. Some of my closest friends, mentors, and longest-standing professional relationships trace their roots directly to those priceless years at BlueCrest. And more importantly, even with my extended college years beyond her walls, BlueCrest College fuelled my hopes, ambitions, and unquenchable resilience in the face of even the most daunting circumstances—qualities that now serve as my core as a corporate player, entrepreneur, an evolving public-policy expert, and, in a very open-secret manner, a new-generation African and global leader.”
