Mr. Nwoffiah is the president of Rhesus Media Group with offices in Nigeria, USA and South Africa. Rhesus is a full service film and television production company.
He is an adjunct professor at Menlo College in Atherton, California where he teaches African History. He is also the founding director of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival, the only film festival in California that is exclusively focused on films by African filmmakers.
Mr. Nwoffiah is an accomplished actor and director with over 30 stage and screen credits. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) and worked alongside Hollywood actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Djimon Hounsou in the Steve Spielberg's classic film "Amistad". He is a highly sought after consultant on theater, film, television and multimedia projects. Nwoffiah is a past president of Mountain View Community Television (KMVT Channel 15) and currently serves as on the Arts Advisory Commission for the San Diego International Airport, and on the boards of the Chamber of Commerce, Mountain View Education Foundation, Alliance for California Traditional Arts and Families Without Borders. He served for 8 years as the Chairman of the Arts Council Silicon Valley Grants Committee and managed the annual distribution of over $1 million dollars to Artists and Arts organization in Silicon Valley. In 2013 he was appointed by the California Superintendent of Education, Tom Torlakson, to serve on the California Blueprint for Creative Schools Task Force. In 2014, he served as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant for the Houston Endowment. Listed as one of the "Top Ten Most Influential African Americans" in the San Francisco Bay Area, California by CityFlight Magazine in 2000, Nwoffiah is a leader and respected voice in the California arts community and has testified several times before the California State legislature in support of funding for the arts.
In 2004, 2005 and 2008, he served as a Fund For Folk Culture strategy panelist on the development of support systems for Immigrant and Refugee Arts in the United States. He has been a guest lecturer at University of California Los Angeles Urban Policy Institute, Southern New Hampshire University's Community Development graduate program, Sacramento State University's Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution and Suffolk University's Black Studies Program. He has presented keynote speeches at several conferences and events, including: the United States Post Office unveiling of the Ella Fitzgerald Stamp, Santa Clara County Black Educators conference, National conference of Community Arts Educators, etc. He was a contributing author to the acclaimed book "Black Cultural Traffic - Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture" edited by Stanford University Professors Harry Elam, Jr. and Kennel Jackson.
Nwoffiah is a graduate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business INM program. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley.
