Mathias grew up in a farming community in Ghana's Ashanti Region. In 2021, during a volunteer visit to a tomato-farming community, a woman farmer walked him around her farm pointing at baskets of rotten tomatoes and describing everything she had done to grow them. That afternoon became AkoFresh.
He is currently an Executive MBA candidate at Hult International Business School, an Acumen Green Rise Africa Fellow, and a Youth Sounding Board member for EU–Ghana cooperation. He serves on the KECTIL Global Board, supporting regional coordination and community projects, and hosted the KECTIL Regional Youth Leadership Conference in Accra.