A native of Takoradi, Ghana, Andam was born 8 January 1976. His parents are Kenneth and Janet Andam, and his religious affiliation has been reported to be Mormonism.
Athletics
Junior athlete
In 1995, Andam won the triple jump at the African Junior Athletics Championships in the Bouaké, Ivory Coast and the West African championships in the Long Jump in Banjul, Gambia. He also set an inter-regional triple jump record of 16.02 meters in WA, a township in the northern part of Ghana during the 1995 inter-regional championships and was awarded the best male athlete of the competition that year.
Collegiate career
Andam attended Brigham Young University where he competed on the Cougars' track and field team in the 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay, and the long jump. As of 2012, he holds top ten marks for BYU in each event, including a school record in the 4 × 100 relay set in 1999 with Ghanaian teammate Leonard Myles-Mills. Andam is ranked third on BYU's all-time best list behind Frank Fredericks and Myles-Mills, and third behind Fredericks and Oluyemi Kayode. Accredited to Andam are Western Athletic Conference awards, including freshman of the year both indoor and outdoor, Mountain West Conference Awards and records for track & field and National Collegiate Athletic AssociationAll American Honors. As of 2011, he holds Mountain West Conference all-time records in the indoor 60 metres and the outdoor 100 metres. In 1999, Andam was ranked 11th in the nation in the 100 metres and 7th in the 200 metres and was the WAC champion in the long jump as well as the 4 X 100 relay. In the long jump, he was injured upon landing and was unable to compete in the 60 and 20 metres events. At the 1999 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in Boise, Idaho, he advance with Myles-Mills to the semi-finals of the 200 metres and his 4 X 100 relay team, ranked No. 1 in the nation, qualified for the finals with the fastest semi-final time. Andam was injured before the finals, and BYU's relay team eventually finished third in the nation. Andam was injured with a stress fracture in January 2000, but recovered to post performances that twice earned him the title of the Mountain West Conference Men's Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week. That season, he was the MWC champion in the 100 and 200 metres, and qualified in the 100 metres and 4 X 100 for the 2000 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in Durham, North Carolina. At the 2001 Mountain West Conference championships, Andam earned the Men's High Point Award. Prior to the 2001 NCAA Track and Field Championships in Eugene Oregon, Andam was ranked No. 8 in the nation for the 100 metres. In the finals, he posted a time of 10.39 to finish in 7th.
Andam is an inventor and a technology innovator in software and specializes in research and development with a focus in communications and interactive video processing. He has innovated patent pending technology for medical claims data transfer for personal health record systems in the healthcare sector, and for video email system with security modes that allows for secure user control of their data over the internet. Andam also created an interactive visual search engine that uses image tagging to display search results., and also invented a patent pending video algorithm for compressing large video files into bit frames easy to view over the internet. Andam has self-published five books with AuthorHouse called the Scarlet Minor Chronicles. Andam founded WorldVuer Inc., a media communications company that has developed proprietary technologies for communicating bandwidth intensive data. Andam also co-founded Globa, Inc. with Johan Meyer to provide mobile banking and mobile remittance to Africans across the continent and their relatives living abroad. He is also founder of OS Petro, Inc., which is an oil and gas company with concessions and reserves in Ghana and Namibia. Andam is also founder and chairman of SIDE EQUITY, a company that funds projects in the technology, natural resources, and consumables sector. On January 10, 2018, Andam pled guilty in Utah's Fourth District Court to Securities Fraud in connection with investments in Globa, Inc. He failed to appear for his scheduled sentencing, triggering a statewide warrant to be issued for his arrest after his attorney's motion to continue the sentencing was denied on 4/3/2018. Andam's counsel has filed a motion to withdraw the guilty plea. An evidentiary hearing on that motion has been scheduled for May 8, 2018.
