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Profile: Muhammed Jah, founder and CEO QuantumNet Group
Muhammed Jah, founder and CEO QuantumNet Group. PHOTO/BBC
The Gambia’s Muhammed Jah clearly remembers the day, in the late 1990s, when a friend told him that he was going to the airport to pick up a consultant who was coming to teach his department a word processing application popular at the time, WordPerfect.
“I said: ‘How come we have a consultant coming all the way from Europe just to teach our people how to type a letter on a computer?'”
“That was funny but serious to me, and there and then I decided that I was going to start teaching people computing.”
QuantumNet, the company that he founded with four employees, now has more than 300 information technology (IT) professionals on its payroll and, according to his estimates, is worth around £100 million (US$156 million).
QuantumNet is now a group of companies which has also gone into the car business, and telecommunications amongst others.
