Ken Ofori-Atta

Ken Ofori-Atta

POSITION: Finance Minister

COMPANY: Ghana Government

EDUCATION: MBA (Management) -Yale University

Bachelor’s Degree (Economics) -Columbia University

ACHIEVEMENT: Chairman of Trust Bank Limited of The Gambia and the EPACK Mutual Fund. Chairman of Investment Committee of Databank Agrifund Manager Limited.
Director of Acumen Fund.
Director of Enterprise Group Limited
Member of the Boards of Trust Bank Limited of The Gambia and Ventures & Acquisitions Limited.
Member of the President’s Ghana Investors’ Advisory Council.

AWARDS: The only black African to be listed in the world’s top fifty financial managers for the 21st century
Marketing Man of the year, 1996 by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana.

INTEREST: Loves to dream

BACKGROUND: Databank started from one room in Kantamanto and EPACK was launched with GH¢25 and 5 investors. He left a promising job at Wall Street to Ghana to found Databank with his colleagues Keli Gadzekpo and joined by Togbe Afedi XIV (then James Akpo)

 

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