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The Company has a three-member Board of Directors which is made up of the following: –
Mr. Joseph Robertson Afful
Chairman of Board of Directors
Mr. Joseph Robertson Afful has over 33 years of experience in banking, with 20 years in Credit and Marketing and 10 years in Banking Operations. He has spent 17 years in managerial position. He started his career with Social Security Bank (now Societe Generale Ghana) in 1982 as a front desk operator rose to assistant branch manager. After completing his first degree he came back to the same back as domestic banking operation and was elevated to Relationship Officer, Consumer/Commercial/Corporate Banking a year after rejoined the bank until 2001 where moved to Cal Bank as senior relationship manager, commercial/corporate banking. From January 2004 to July 2005, he was the operation manager for the same bank until July 2005 he joined United Bank of Africa as investment Executive and later promoted Regional group head until he left in March 2009 to Access Bank Ghana where he rose to be Zonal Manager, Northern Sector. He was also a part-time lecturer at University of Education, Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Diploma of Education from the University of Cape Coast and Master of Arts in Industrial Management degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He has attended various courses including management of public finance at GIMPA, Credit Management by World Bank Consultant, Advanced Credit Management of Bad and Doubtful loan Portfolio Management, Syndicated lending at Ghana Banking College, Risk Management in Banking / Finance and Corporate Banking from CAL Bank. He is a financial consultant and has numerous experiences in advising real estate companies and oil companies in Ghana. He has a passion to advise start-ups companies.
Mr. K. O. Addo
Member of Board of Directors
Mr. Addo is a Member of Board of Directors and CEO of the Company. He has over 25 years’ managerial experiences including working as a Financial Manager with Susaslin Fashion Ltd in Antwerp, Director of Global Financial Networks Ltd/Goffin Bank PLc in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Operations Manager for Unity Monetary Services Ltd and Unity Link UK Ltd, London. He served as student union executive for 1 year with Birkbeck, University of London Students Union. Mr. Addo has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from HES Amsterdam School of Business (Hogeschool voor Amsterdam) and Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Birkbeck, University of London. He has done extensive research about laws governing housing and property ownership in Ghana. He has attended various courses and training in real estate in The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Germany and Ghana. He has considerable experience in economic policy analysis and economic reform measures. He brings to the board a wealth of business experience.
Mr. Oliver Baidoo
Member of Board of Directors
Mr. Baidoo has a wealth of experience in management and corporate governance in more than three decades. Until his retirement from public service early 2015, he was the Head of Audit in a reputable company in Ghana. He started his career as a teaching in senior high school for some years after his first degree before joining PBC Limited, the largest licensed cocoa buying company in Ghana as an Accounting Officer. He rose to the position of Senior Director in charge of Audit. His outfit reports to the board of directors on all aspects of the company’s operations. During his twenty years role in audit department, he gained in-depth experience in corporate governance. He served in the committees that drew up all the five sets of three year corporate plans and also served as the chairman of the implementation committee. He also headed a team to develop an accounting manual for PBC Shea Limited, a subsidiary of PBC Ltd. established to process shea nut into shea butter for export. He was also a part-time lecturer at Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA), where he prepared students for Institute of Chartered Accountant (ICA GH) professional examinations. He is also an examiner of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana. Mr. Baidoo has a Diploma in Education and Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Cape Coast and MBA (Accounting) from University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. He is also a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana.