A polyglot, a liaison, and an incurable connector.
I'm Jessie Asinah — an Aries born in Accra on a sunny April day in 1989, full of fire and curiosity from the very first hour. Before I had a job title I had a language obsession, an instinct for people, and a hunger to live in as many worlds as I could. Those three things have shaped every chapter since, and they're still the engine underneath everything I do.
Languages are how I see the world. I speak English, Twi and Kasem (mother tongues), French (professional), Mandarin (conversational), Korean (intermediate) and Spanish (beginner). Japanese, Arabic and Russian are next. Each language I've learned handed me a culture, and each culture taught me a new way of listening to people. That's not a CV bullet — it's a worldview. Twi and Kasem made me a daughter of Ghana. Mandarin made me patient. French made me precise. Korean is teaching me humility. Spanish is just for joy.
What I do, no matter the contract on the table, is connect people who should know each other. I broker conversations. I read rooms. I make complicated cross-border things feel simple. Whether that's been bridging Chinese suppliers and African buyers in a Linyi factory, or aligning a 25-person banking deployment team strung between Europe and India, the core skill is always the same: I am the bridge.
I'm also driven. Embarrassingly so. I cook anything I'm curious about — jollof one night, hand-pulled noodles the next, a slow French stew the day after. I host dinners that go on too long because nobody wants to leave. I learn languages for fun. I throw myself at new cities, new cuisines, new people, new ideas — because the world keeps offering, and it would feel rude not to say yes.
I've spent the last eight years inside the highest levels of French investment banking — BNP Paribas, BCEF, Société Générale CIB — leading project implementations, business analysis and treasury programmes. Real depth in cash management, liquidity risk, SWIFT and ISO 20022. I'm proud of the work and I'll do more of it. But that's something I can do exceptionally well, not who I am.
Who I am is someone you can hire to bridge worlds — for a deal, a partnership, a cross-cultural project, a hard conversation that needs to land in three languages. I'm available for full-time international roles, consulting and advisory engagements, and the right kind of partnerships. Bring me a bridge that needs building. Driven by joie de vivre, and the conviction that life is meant to be tasted, not endured.