Kofi only received his Wharton M.B.A. in 2004, but in that short time he'd made a big impression and a bigger impact on the Wharton Club of New York as one of the Club's valued volunteers. He was co-chair, with Anne Kim (W '05), of the fund-raising committee for the 2007 Joseph Wharton Dinner. He had also taken on the position of Vice President of Marketing & Communications for the Club, joining the Club's executive committee.

Born in Toronto and raised in upstate New York and Ohio, Kankam grew up a long way from sunny West Africa. He received his A.B. degree in biology from Harvard College and a Master's in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education before venturing to Wharton as a Joseph Wharton Fellow to receive his M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management.

Kankam wasted no time leveraging his entrepreneurial management skills, co-founding recruiting software company JobsInSite (www.jobsinsite.com) with fellow Wharton alum Kevin Cadette (WG '04). The company creates proprietary software for large corporations, nonprofits, and universities and colleges. Offering tools to support these entities' efforts to recruit talented personnel and to train experienced and new job seekers, Kankam and Cadette are steering JobsInSite to success.