Herman Owula Kojo Chinery-Hesse (18 November 1963 – 17 September 2024) was a Ghanaian technology businessman and the founder of theSOFTtribe, the oldest and largest software company in Ghana.

Blay was the first Vice President of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), of which he was a founding member and a Speaker of the 1969 Constituent Assembly.

[21] He was also a real estate investor, with business interests in property development joint ventures in Ghana and Sierra Leone.

[19] Chinery-Hesse was also bestowed with a honorary chieftaincy title by Ghanaian traditional leaders in recognition of his contributions to national development and technology.

He was a TED Fellow and featured heavily in the international media's reportage on technology in Africa, including CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera, and in publications such as the Ghana Business & Finance Times, The Guardian, Forbes Africa, New African, IEEE Magazine, The Financial Times, among many others.