NAME: Ernest Bediako Sampong
DESCENT: Ghanaian
POSITION: Chief Executive Officer
COMPANY: Ernest Chemist Ltd
INDUSTRY: Pharmaceuticals
AWARDS: 2017 People’s Choice Practitioners and the Local Pharmaceutical Institution of the year.
EDUCATION: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Pharmacy
BACKGROUND: He established his first pharmacy, Ernest Chemists in 1986. Today, Ernest Chemists has ballooned into a large pharmaceutical entity. His export development programme which came in place in 2004, has seen export to Cote d’lvoire, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Nigeria among other countries.