Prof Cecil Bruce-Boye

Prof. Bruce-Boye is an appointed professor for Automation Technology at the University of Applied Science in Lübeck and is the founder / shareholder of cbb software GmbH.

Furthermore, Prof. Bruce-Boye happens to be an initiator of projects to provide development aid to Ghana at the highest technological level in cooperation with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology as well as with the AITI - Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. Owing to the success of these projects, the lecturers of these Universities are being instructed and trained to introduce new courses at their Universities and to enable know-how transfer and finally to establish Ghanaian capacities for an independent development and application of IT-solutions in the industrial fields. It all started way back in the 60s as an apprentice in Power Engineering at Siemens AG, St. Ingbert and Saarland. Prof. Bruce-Boye then studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken and at the University of Bremen where he graduated as a Doctor of Engineering. Aside this, he was also actively involved with the Columbus Space Platform project of ESA. He has also been granted several patents in similar innovations. He worked for companies and institutions like Siemens AG, ISYTEC Bremen, gsf Munich etc. In 1991, he was appointed Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Lübeck, and in 1995 he founded cbb automation, now known as cbb software GmbH. Cbb software GmbH has branches in Brunswick and Stuttgart and a subsidiary in Accra, Ghana with the mission to establish state of the art industrial IT in Ghana.