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International Development Specialist Consultant

Adelaide Addo-Fening
Founder & Chairman, Africa Initiative for Governance

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede
International Motivational Speaker

Albert Ocran
Corporate Director, Managing Consultant, AKMS

Amina Oyagbola

International Development Specialist Consultant

Adelaide Addo-Fening

Adelaide Addo-Fening is an International Development Specialist Consultant with 25 years’ experience working across Ghana and globally. The primary focus of her work has been on Public Policy, Institutional Development and Civil Society Strengthening. Within these broad areas, she has worked extensively on programmes that strengthen social sectors, such as Health and Education and promote Good governance and Inclusive Development approaches. 

More recently, until October 2020, she worked in the Oil and Gas sector as Team Leader for the Ghana Oil and Gas for Inclusive Growth (GOGIG) Programme, a UK government funded programme aimed at supporting Ghana to maximize the benefits from the petroleum industry.

Prior to joining GOGIG in 2015, she held the position of International Programmes Director for Sightsavers International, a UK based charity, and was responsible for overseeing the organization’s work in 33 countries across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. She also worked previously as West and Central Africa Regional Director for VSO, (also a UK  based charity), after serving as Ghana Country Director for the same organization. In 2004, Adelaide was awarded an Honorary OBE (Officer of the British Empire) by the Queen in recognition of her contributions in VSO.  

Adelaide is a member of the School Management Committee of the University of Ghana Business School and has served as Director of the International Council for Education of the Visually Impaired (ICEVI) and board member of Sightsavers Ireland. She has held positions on the steering/governing committees of the STAR Ghana Programme, the UK Department for International Development Rights and Voice Initiative Fund, World Bank Small Grants Programme. United Way Ghana and Common Purpose Ghana. She is also founding member of an NGO, the Centre for Civic Development and Empowerment. 

Adelaide serves in the Kingdom of God as Leader of the Women’s Ministry at Agape House New Testament Church where she worships, and as co-convener of Mothers Pray Global, a platform to enlighten, encourage, equip and empower mothers to stand in prayer for children.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Democracy, Governance and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Arabic. 

Adelaide is married to John Addo-Fening and they have three children, Andre, Nana Ekua and Ewurama.

 

 

 

Founder & Chairman, Africa Initiative for Governance

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the Founder and Chairman of the Africa Initiative for Governance. He is a lawyer, banker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of Coronation Capital, prior to which he was Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, where he led the transformation of the bank to rank amongst Africa’s leading banks. In 2012, Mr Aig-Imoukhuede was appointed Chair of the Presidential Committee on the Verification of Fuel Subsidies. His oversight of the process is widely credited with saving Nigeria billions of dollars in fraudulent fuel subsidy payments. Mr Aig-Imoukhuede is the Chairman of Friends Africa and the first African Co-Chairman of the GBC Health. He is also the immediate past President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Mr Aig-Imoukhuede holds a law degree from the University of Benin and was called to the Bar in Nigeria. He also holds a Trium MBA, awarded jointly by the London School of Economics, New York University, and HEC Paris. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and a Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative.

 

 

 

International Motivational Speaker

Albert Ocran

Albert Ocran is an international motivational speaker, author and minister with a passion for challenging people to reach their full potential and live out their God-given dreams. He serves as Executive Pastor at ICGC Christ Temple. He is the Co-Founder of Combert Impressions and Lead Consultant and Chairman of Legacy & Legacy, a human capital development firm.

Albert has a diverse range of media education platforms including Springboard, the Virtual University, which airs weekly on Joy FM and daily to millions on radio networks across Ghana. Together with his wife, Comfort, he has authored 20 bestselling books. The couple travel extensively every year with the Springboard Road Show, a series of personal development conferences that reaches across Ghana and into Africa.

Rev. Albert Ocran has won a number of notable awards including being voted as Ghana’s 7th Most Respected CEO for 2009. He also received the “Millennium Excellence Award 2010” for his Inspirational and Motivational Work.

 

 

Corporate Director, Managing Consultant, AKMS

Amina Oyagbola

Amina Oyagbola is a Corporate Director and former Human Resources and Corporate Services Executive at MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. She is the Managing Consultant of AKMS Consulting (Business Advisory and management Consultants), a partner in Oyagbola Chambers and founder of WISCAR (Women in Successful Careers). 

With over 35 years’ experience, her career spans strategic HR management, legal consulting, governance and ethics, leadership development,  banking and finance, oil and gas and telecommunications in notable organisations like UBA, Shell Petroleum Development Company and MTN Nigeria, one of Africa’s leading telecommunications provider in Africa.

During her 12-year tenure as a member of MTN Nigeria’s leadership team, she contributed notably to the company’s extraordinary growth and development. She was pioneer Director of the MTN Foundation where she led a strategic transformation in the HR Function to improve business performance as HR Executive, with the company becoming the 1st company in Nigeria to be accredited with the International Investors in People Gold Standard in May 2015 and winning several other awards.  

She has received a host of Awards including; ALTON Award, 2019 HR People Magazine: HR Person of the Year Award 2015 and Life time Achievement Award 2019, British Chevening Scholarship Award 2000, Chief FRA Williams- Life time Achievement Award, 2015 Numerous CSR Awards for work done as pioneer director of the MTN Foundation. She sits on the board of prestigious organisations e.g. ALIWA, WISCAR, Afrobarometer and Chevening Association of Nigeria.

She is a Fellow and Chair of The Africa Leadership Initiative – West Africa Class, A Member of the Nigerian Bar association, Member International Bar Association, Member CIPM and Chartered Fellow, CIPD UK. She is a Fellow and member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Directors, a Certified Ethics Officer, Chair, IoD Ethics Committee and former Vice Chair of the IoD Women Directors Development Committee. 

 

 

ADELAIDE ADDO-FENING

AIGBOJE AIG-IMOUKHUEDE

ALBERT OCRAN

AMINA OYAGBOLA

Practicing Clinical Psychologist, Cognitive Behaviour Specialist

Angela Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta
Advisory Partner, Ernst & Young, Ghana

Djabanor Narh
GHANA'S AMBASSADOR TO THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN

Elizabeth Adjei
Film & TV Producer, Host

Funmi Iyanda

Practicing Clinical Psychologist, Cognitive Behaviour Specialist

Angela Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta

Prof. Angela Ofori-Atta is a practicing clinical psychologist, a cognitive behavior specialist, an academic and researcher. She heads the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ghana Medical School and is the Chairperson of the Ghana Psychology Council. She founded and directs the Psych Corps, an NGO which delivers psychological first aid. She is an accomplished author of several research articles and a book on Trends in Mental Health Research in Ghana. She researches mental health and faith healing camps and is part of the Escaping Poverty Randomized Control Trial where her cognitive behavioural intervention is being tested against conventional economic interventions. She serves on the boards of The Enterprise Group and Databank.

 

Advisory Partner, Ernst & Young, Ghana

Djabanor Narh

Djabanor Narh is the Advisory Partner of Ernst & Young, Ghana with 18 years of development consulting experience to his credit. He has led many consulting assignments for major local and international clients. His areas of expertise include Process Improvement and Re-engineering, Business Development, Corporate Restructuring and Change Management, Business model development, Strategy planning, Business case development, Strategy audit, Organization design, Monitoring and Evaluation and Human Resource Development.

 

GHANA'S AMBASSADOR TO THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN

Elizabeth Adjei

Elizabeth is a consummate public service careerist with over three decades of remarkable accomplishments in public policy development, public sector management, strategic and operational management, migration and development and diplomacy, with a strong drive for innovation and organizational effectiveness.

Between 2015-2020, Elizabeth served as Ghana’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Spain and Andorra as well as Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), where she had the opportunity to use her unique leadership skills to promote the strategic interests of Ghana through engagement and partnerships with key foreign government/non-governmental institutions. Her efforts received several commendations from the host government and her peers earning her an honorary award of Academician of the Academy of Diplomacy in Spain for meritorious service in 2018.

Elizabeth has a solid track record in organizational change having successfully led the restructuring of the Ghana Immigration Service where she served as Director-General (2002-2011), the first woman to be appointed to this position and the longest serving chief executive to date. 

Elizabeth has great passion and abundance of experience in policy development and implementation of strategies in international migration and development. She played various leadership, advisory and advocacy roles in her work with various international agencies including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNDP, ILO etc. to build support for mutual understanding of migration issues. She was a credible representative of Ghana, leading various official delegations to several migration fora and contributing constructively to the debate of North/South migration, prioritizing the promotion of respect for diversity and the human rights of migrants.

Between 2011-2015, Elizabeth worked as an independent consultant on several key migration and development projects around Africa.  Her role involved leadership, advisory, analyst as well as advocacy capacities in several projects, notable among which are the following:

  • Talent Mobility Program (TMP), a program to enhance intra-African mobility of skilled professionals across countries to improve business competitiveness by addressing legal and regulatory challenges, coordinated by the Accra based African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET)
  • Africa Union Border Program (AUPB), a research program to re-demarcate and delineate borders to prevent cross-border conflicts and promote African integration
  • Key expert and facilitator for Integrated Border management (IBM) and Women in Security (WPSI) at the Kofi Annan Peace-Keeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra

Elizabeth was educated at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana, 1985) and Cornell University, 2000 (USA).

Film & TV Producer, Host

Funmi Iyanda

Funmi is a Nigerian entrepreneur, writer, film and TV producer, TV host and Philanthropist. She is the Executive Director of Oya Media, a London-based media production studio and brand advisory. Oya media develops, produces and facilitates films and TV shows for Cinema, television and the web. Funmi was the co-founder and the executive director at Creation Television UK and is best known for independently producing and hosting Nigeria’s most popular talk show, New Dawn.

She currently runs a TV program on TVC title Public Eye. The show which had its debut recently, on TVC, was aimed at providing answers to some of the problems bedeviling the country.

Funmi is a member of the African Leadership Institute, Tutu Fellow, and a participant of the ASPEN Institute’s Forum for Communications and Society.[ 

In 2012 she was honored by the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, for her commitment to gender advocacy as she returned from a five-day UN advocacy trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. The climb was organized by the UN to raise global awareness on its campaign to End Violence against Women and Girls and brought together climbers from more than 32 African countries in a historic advocacy journey up Mount Kilimanjaro. 

Funmi serves on the Board of Farafina Trust and Positive Impact Youth Network. 

 

ANGELA LAMENSDORF OFORI-ATTA

DJABANOR NARH

ELIZABETH ADJEI

FUNMI IYANDA

CEO of FC Beauty Group Ltd

Grace Amey-Obeng
Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union & Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union

Hanna Tetteh
Co-founder and Executive Partner, Arthur Energy Advisors (AEA)

Harriette Amissah-Arthur
CEO, Cleaning Solutions Ltd.

Kofi Atua Ankama-Asamoah

CEO of FC Beauty Group Ltd

Grace Amey-Obeng

Mrs. Grace Amey-Obeng is a Medical Aesthetician by profession with an extensive experience in Beauty Therapy Education, Manufacturing, Corporate Governance, Social Entrepreneurship, and Women Empowerment.

She is the CEO of FC Beauty Group Ltd. with five subsidiaries namely; FC Skin & Beauty Klinik, FC Perfumery & Cosmetics, FC Cosmetics Industry, Salon Equipment and Beauty Supplies (SEBS), and FC Beauty College, the premier Beauty Therapy Training Institute in Ghana.

Grace is the Chairperson of the following organizations, UMB Capital, UMB Foundation, and Millennium Excellence Foundation. She is also a board member of Media General, Parkway Developers, First Insurance, SLID Industries, Ambassador, Access Bank W Initiative, Made –in-Ghana Ambassador, Vice Chair, Southern Volta Development Group (SOVODEG), Member, GIMPA Business School Advisory Council, President of the Ghana Cosmetology & Wellness Federation and a Member of the CIMG Governing Council.

She is also the Past Chairperson of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) Technical Committee on Cosmetics and was recently elected Chairperson of Africa Regional Standards Organization (ARSO) on Cosmetics, Cosmetology and Wellness.

Mrs Obeng was elected National Treasurer of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and inducted in January 2018 and she also serve as Chairperson of AGI Women in Business In 2003, she was awarded the CIMG, Marketing Woman of the year 2002. She also received the prestigious award at the International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) 2010 in Spain. Grace was a Country Winner, Africa’s Most Influential Women Awards 2014 as well as recipient of Most Enterprising Women of the year 2014 Award, USA and the IPMATIC Africa Awards 2014 for her achievements in the area of business. She is a recipient of Global Center for Transformational Leader Award – 100 Most Outstanding & Influential Ghanaians of the Decade 2000 – 2012.

Her passion for women and children led her to establish the Grace Amey-Obeng Foundation International (GAOFI) in 2007. GAOFI’s passion is to equip young girls who are into transactional sex with employable skills to help them develop alternative source of livelihood. GAOFI aims to take an estimated 1000 girls off the streets within the next 5 years. Grace has also been at the forefront of the campaign against skin lightening among black women and has received recognition from both local and international media such as the CNN, BBC, Forbes Africa Magazine and Al Jazeera.

 

Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union & Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union

Hanna Tetteh

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 10 December the appointment of Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as his Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU).  She succeeds Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia to whom the Secretary-General reiterates his deep gratitude and appreciation for her dedicated service to the Organization.

Ms. Tetteh brings to this position decades of progressively responsible experience at the national, regional and international levels, including well-honed skills in building consensus among stakeholders and knowledge of the Organization, in order to strengthen the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union in the area of peace and security.

Currently the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi, she served previously in the cabinet of the Government of Ghana as Minister for Foreign Affairs and a member of the National Security Council and the Armed Forces Council (2013-2017), as well as Minister for Trade and Industry (2009-2013).  From 2014 to 2015 she was the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers as well as Chairperson of the Mediation & Security Council of the Economic Community of West African States.  During her term as Minister for Trade and Industry, she was also a member of the Government’s economic management team, the board of the Millennium Development Authority and the National Development Planning Commission, and was also the Chairperson of the Ghana Free Zones Board.  From January to February 2009 she served as Spokesperson for President John Evans Atta Mills’ Administration transition team.

 A National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya Constituency (2000-2005), she later returned to Parliament as the NDC Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya West Constituency (2013-2017).  She was appointed Co-Facilitator in the High-Level Forum for the Revitalisation of the Agreement for the resolution of the conflict in South Sudan (2017-2018).

 Ms. Tetteh holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Ghana, Legon.  She was called to the Ghana Bar in October 1992.

 

 

 

Co-founder and Executive Partner, Arthur Energy Advisors (AEA)

Harriette Amissah-Arthur

Harriette is a Co-founder and Executive Partner of Arthur Energy Advisors (AEA), a leading energy consulting firm based in Accra and providing advisory services to the West Africa Sub-region since 2001. AEA was set up to partner global players in the delivery of world class solutions that are adequately contextualized for optimum impact.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ghana, as well as certificates in Utility Management and Power Operations from General Physics Corporation, Florida, USA and Dresden University, Germany, respectively.

With a career spanning over 35 years, Harriette has worked in various strategic and senior roles at the Volta River Authority (VRA), Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and the Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE), prior to becoming the Executive Partner of Arthur Energy Advisors. 

Harriette is a passionate entrepreneur, pragmatic engineer and astute troubleshooter. She has led several teams to provide world-class solutions to several public and private sector clients in energy sectors across the ECOWAS Sub-region and in so doing has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of investments into the Sub-region.

She draws on her vast experience in power system operations and development work as well as her entrepreneurial skills to seize opportunities to provide solutions to energy sector issues by developing them into fundable projects in addition to supporting the donor and investment communities with needed services.

Ing Harriette Amissah-Arthur is a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineering and the Chair of Women in Engineering Ghana.

 

 

CEO, Cleaning Solutions Ltd.

Kofi Atua Ankama-Asamoah

Rev. Kofi Atua Ankama-Asamoah is a product of Mfantsipim School and trained as a Chemical Engineer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Kofi served as President of the Chemical Engineering Students Association from 1987-1988 and SRC 2nd Assistant Secretary with responsibility for Students Entertainment.
Kofi completed Postgraduate studies in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Leicester, UK and holds an MA Degree in Theology from Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon and another MA in Theology and Missions from Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Akropong.

Kofi worked in Unilever Ghana Ltd. for nine years in the Manufacturing, Research & Development,Quality Assurance, Sales and Marketing Departments from 1991 to 2000, and exited as Head of Diversey Lever Division.

In 2000, Kofi became the CEO of Cleaning Solutions Ltd, a company he set up to manufacture and distribute cleaning chemicals, representing Diversey International (now Sealed Air), Coventry Chemicals and training the hospitality industry in promoting world class tourism in Ghana. Cleaning Solutions has extended into Togo, Sierra leone and Liberia.

In 2007, Kofi set up Cleaning Services Division to actually clean industries, offices and homes. These top quality services range from daily to yearly cleaning and from routinely to one-off cleaning of all surfaces. The Division is also credited especially for clients facilities that are newly completed and everything needs to be made ready for the fresh and hygienic entry and living experience. Kofi leads the teams to provide world class services and have won many awards including Ghana Tourist Board awards for Human Resource Development from 2001 to 2011.

Kofi joined Joyful Way Incorporated in Mfantsipim School in 1975 till 2013. He is a Past Music & Production Director as well as Past President of Joyful Way Inc.

Kofi is the current President of MOBA 1980 year group. Kofi is married to Doris. They are marriage counsellors and blessed with six children (3 biological and 3 adopted). Kofi is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and served as the Minister in charge of Emmanuel Congregation, Tebibiianor, Teshie from 2013 to 2017. From October 2017 Kofi became the Youth Minister of Accra Ridge Church as well as in charge of The Contemporary Service.

 

 

GRACE AMEY-OBENG

Hanna Tetteh

Harriette Amissah Arthur

KOFI ATUA ANKAMA-ASAMOAH

FOUNDER & MD, PERSOL SYSTEMS LIMITED

Michael Quarshie
Director of Research and Training, Da’wah Institute of Nigeria

Nurudeen Lemu
Chairman of African Capital Alliance (ACA)

Okechukwu Enelamah
Senior Partner, TLcom Capital

Omobola Johnson

FOUNDER & MD, PERSOL SYSTEMS LIMITED

Michael Quarshie

Michael is the co-founder and Managing Director of Persol Systems Limited, a 25year software development, systems integration and IT consulting firm. The company has capabilities in the oil and gas sector, across upstream, midstream sectors and provides critical platforms for the downstream supply chain.  Persol continues to build key solutions that support public sector revenue initiatives. 

After serving as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Biochemistry at KNUST, Michael chose an entrepreneurial career over one in higher academics in Biotechnology and teaching at the same university. He has been involved in mining in the past and has interests in fruit farms and teak tree plantations in Ghana.

Michael enjoys political discourse, actively seeking solutions to some of the critical problems our country faces. He is a Fellow of the Totum Bonum class of the Africa Leadership Initiative -West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Michael holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc in Biochemistry from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST). Michael is married to Lisa and they have three children. 

Director of Research and Training, Da’wah Institute of Nigeria

Nurudeen Lemu

Nurudeen Lemu is the Director of Research and Training, Da’wah Institute of Nigeria, Islamic Education Trust, Minna, Nigeria. he develops, facilitates and conducts train-the-trainers courses in enhancing interreligious dialogue and engagement, intrareligious cooperation, responding to religious extremism among Muslims and promoting Shari’ah Intelligence, or faith-based critical thinking. Trainees at these programmes include students, lecturers, youth and community leaders from over 20 countries.

Muhammad is the director of several organisations, including Lotus Capital (Halal Investments) Limited, the Development Initiative of West Africa, and a co-founder of the Inter-Faith Activity and Partnership for Peace (IFAPP). He holds various positions in a number of other organizations that focus on issues related to social welfare, government policy, education, sustainable development, environment, leadership, family life, youth empowerment and gender equity. He has moderated, presented and produced more than two hundred radio and television programmes. Nearly half of these have been on interreligious bridge building and engagement (IFAPP’s “Inter-Faith Forum”) and were aired on the African Independent Television and Ray Power Radio.

He was nominated by the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs to represent the Nigerian Muslim leadership at the National Conference in 2014 and is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative of West Africa and the Aspen Leadership Institute in Aspen, Colorado, USA. He holds an MSc. in Resource Management from Edinburgh University, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.His motto is “Growth and contribution with compassion, wisdom, faith and fun.”

 

 

Chairman of African Capital Alliance (ACA)

Okechukwu Enelamah

Okechukwu (Okey) Enelamah is the Chairman of African Capital Alliance (ACA), a leading independent investment management firm sponsoring funds and managing investments across a variety of sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Mr. Enelamah served as Federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment in Nigeria from November 2015 – May 2019.  Prior to his appointment to government, Mr. Enelamah served as CEO of ACA.  Mr. Enelamah’s previous private equity experience was gained from Zephyr Management L.P. and Capital Zephyr Limited in New York and Johannesburg.  Prior to his career in private equity, Mr. Enelamah worked for Arthur Andersen in Nigeria and London, and Goldman Sachs in New York and London.  After first qualifying as a medical doctor, Mr. Enelamah transitioned to a business career and qualified as a chartered accountant in Nigeria.  He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Dr. Okechukwu is an ordained pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)

 

 

Senior Partner, TLcom Capital

Omobola Johnson

Omobola Johnson is Senior Partner of TLcom Capital, a venture capital firm with recent focus on deal flow generation, investment and value generation in technology companies in sub-saharan Africa.

Before joining TLcom, Omobola was Minister of Communication Technology, Nigeria from 2011 to 2015, focusing on the launch and execution of the National Broadband Plan, and the support of the Nigerian technology industry, including the pioneering involvement of the government in a local VC fund and a network of start-up incubators. 

Prior to serving in the Nigerian government, she gained over 25 years of consulting experience with Accenture including five years as Country Managing Director, working with companies in a variety of industries, transforming them into more competitive and dynamic organizations.

Omobola serves on the Board of a number of leading Nigerian and multi-national corporations. She also serves on the Board of the World Wide Web Foundation is the Founding Chairperson and Trustee, Women in Management and Business.

Omobola has a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester; a Master’s in Digital Electronics from King’s College, London and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the School of Management of Cranfield University. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumna award from Cranfield University and the Lagos Business School.

 

MICHAEL QUARSHIE

NURUDDEEN LEMU

OKECHUKWU ENELAMAH

OMOBOLA JOHNSON

Founder and CEO of ENO International

Roland Akosah
Independent, Non-Executive Director - Heirs Oil and Gas

Sally Udoma
CEO, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre

Yofi Grant
Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana

Yonny Kulendi

Founder and CEO of ENO International

Roland Akosah

Mr. Roland Akosah holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1989), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Statistics from the University of Ghana (1984).
He is the founder and CEO of ENO International, LLC, which is a privately held firm founded in 1994, which invests largely in start-ups. Prior to morphing into an entrepreneur, Mr. Roland O. Akosah had had corporate careers at SallieMae Corporation (a higher education financier), United Technologies (an industrial conglomerate), and IBM.

His varied areas of responsibilities included contract negotiations and management (at SallieMae), business planning, analysis, and management reporting (at the North American Operations of the Otis Elevator Division of United Technologies), forecasting the personal computer systems and telecommunications marketplace in the United States (at IBM).

In addition to his entrepreneurial engagements, Mr. Roland O. Akosah serves on several boards. The list includes Multimedia Group Limited (media), Garden City University College, FOCOS Foundation (USA and Ghana). He is a fellow of the West African Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute (USA), which is committed to advancing enlightened citizenship around the world. He is also the Chairman of the National Partnership for Children’s Trust, a Nelson Mandela-inspired charity that is dedicated to educating indigent youth.

Roland is a poet, and a member of the Ghana Association of Writers. He performs recitals on radio, television, and public forums.

Leadership Venture
JAMASI READING CLUB
Creating a reading club and a community center in Jamasi:
Roland’s project aims to set up a reading club and a community center in his hometown, Jamasi. He already has many books for the project and hopes to have Sutherland and Sutherland help him construct the library. Roland plans to use the National Partnership for Children’s Trust (NPCT) model for the reading clinic. NPCT organizes reading clinics for teachers in disadvantaged schools.

ISSUE AREA: Education, Literacy
LOCATION: Ghana, Africa
STATUS: Yet to Start

 

Independent, Non-Executive Director - Heirs Oil and Gas

Sally Udoma

Sally was recently appointed to the Board of Heirs Oil and Gas. She retired from Chevron in 2012 as Global Upstream Regional General Counsel, Europe Eurasia and the Middle East, after a 30 year career in the oil industry with Chevron and Elf Petroleum. She then worked as a Consultant in oil and gas law with one of the leading commercial law firms in Lagos, Udo Udoma & Belo Osagie, until 2019.

Sally now focuses on her voluntary work with Child Life Line, the charity established in 1994 by her late mother, where she has served as President of the charity from 2013 – 2017, and is currently the Secretary.

She graduated in 1979 with an LLB from Kings College, University of London, gained an LLB (post-graduate) in International Law in 1980 from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and qualified for call to the Nigerian Bar in 1981. She is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

 

 

CEO, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre

Yofi Grant

Yofi Grant is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre appointed by H.E President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in February 2017. Mr. Grant is also a renowned Ghanaian investment banker with over 30 years of extensive work experience in banking and finance. Having served in various capacities in corporate finance and advisory, corporate banking and marketing, Mr. Grant has broad knowledge and great exposure in the African financial markets and has cultivated strong relationships with international private equity funds, portfolio and investment managers and brokerage funds. He was responsible for the development and implementation of AAF SME Fund LLC, one of the largest agriculture SME funds in Sub-Saharan Africa, and helped achieve their first close of US$30million.

Yofi is a council member of the Continental Business Network of the African Union which advises African governments on private sector finance and infrastructure. He has served in many directorship roles in both public and private sector. As a partner in the Databank Group, he also had supervisory roles as director, leading the following subsidiaries of the Databank Group, Databank Agrifund Manager Limited, Databank Financial Services Limited, Databank Private Equity Limited and Databank Brokerage Services Limited. In 2009, he served as the Executive Director for Business Development for the entire Databank Group. Mr. Grant was a consultant on finance and business for the Africa Asia Business Forum (AABF) organized by the UNDP which run workshops in 12 African countries and six Asian countries in 2002. Additionally, he has been in senior advisory roles and led many of the groundbreaking transactions in the Ghanaian and other African capital markets.

He is partner and co-founder to a number of companies including Grant Dupuis Investment Limited, a real estate investment advisory firm and Coldwell Banker Ghana a company which holds the master franchise license for Coldwell Banker (of the Realogy Group in New Jersey, USA, the world’s largest real estate organization) for Ghana and Nigeria. In addition to this, he recently co-founded Praxis Fortune Calibre, a firm that offers general business and advisory, and consulting services across the continent.

He has held several supervisory board memberships in private sector companies in the telecommunications, commodities, and education sectors and has also played many policy advisory roles for government, particularly in private sector development. He was chairman of Ghana Telecom (One Touch), the Listing Committee of the Ghana Stock Exchange, and Venture Capital Association of Africa amongst other prestigious organizations.

Mr. Grant was also Special Advisor to the Minister for Private Sector Development between 2002 and 2007 where he advised and assisted the Minister with policy formulation and implementation and also on financing for private sector development projects. He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, The Ghana Export Promotion Agency (GEPA) and a member of the Ministerial Private Public. Partnership Approval Committee of Ghana and a member of the Board of Trustees of the ACP Endowment and Trust Fund.

As the CEO of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre under the Office of the President, it is Yofi’s singular vision to make Ghana the ‘Best place to invest and do business in Africa’. He lives by the guiding principles of honesty, integrity and a constant search for solutions, and is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative, West Africa. He is divorced and is blessed with triplets.

 

 

Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana

Yonny Kulendi

Yonny Kulendi is managing practitioner of his law firm Kulendi@Law, a commercial, litigation, and constitutional law practice. Kulendi@Law currently is made up of nine lawyers with diverse interests and specializations. Previously, he was an associate barrister and solicitor at Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co. He underwent pupilage there, where he was assigned to the Legal Aid Board of Accra for his national service.
Yonnu is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana, Legon, with an LLB Honors. He completed his law degree at the Ghana School of Law, where he obtained a barrister of law degree and a solicitors certificate. He is a member of the Ghana Bar.
Yonny also holds an MA in international security and civil-military relations from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, USA. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

 

 

 

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