Board of Directors
Meet our Board of Directors
Mr. Isaac Ofori-Poku
Executive Chairman
Mr. Isaac Ofori-Poku is the Executive Chairman of GBC and majority shareholder of IOP Group of Companies, the parent company of OPCL.
He has over 30 years extensive working experience in the industries of his various businesses he formed and nurtured under the IOP group.
Prior to the acquisition of GBC by OPCL, he managed the haulage contract services. He has implemented many cost-effective measures to ensure continuity and profitability of his group of companies.
Mr Ofori Poku has extensive international business experience and relationships with global business powerhouses such as Posco International, Hyundai, Polaris, Samsung, Daewoo, CHTC, and SAMI.
As the CEO of the IOP Group of Companies, he has provided strategic leadership in pursuit of the vision of building a competitive Ghanaian business with a solid income base, creating more employment avenues for others and contributing to the growth and development of Ghana.
He was actively involved in the establishment of many other subsidiaries of the Group such as GH-Daewoo Motors Ghana Limited, GH-Express Ghana Limited and Family Fountain Assets and Securities Limited.
He has attended numerous courses and seminars under the disciplines of financial management and analysis, bookkeeping, human resource management, leadership and corporate governance.
Mr. Robert Kwaku Danso Boakye
Board Member
Mr Robert Kwaku Danso Boakye is a Partner of OAB Financial Advisors and a Banking and Finance Consultant. Robert has over 30 years' experience in Commercial Banking in
Ghana. He was the Country Head Retail Operations of Ecobank Ghana from January 2012 to March 2017 responsible for coordination of all aspects of branch banking operations and interface with e- banking suite and mobile money operations. Prior to that Robert held various Senior Management positions at The Trust Bank Limited Ghana from December 1994 to December 2011 in Treasury Management, Credit and Corporate Banking, Consumer/ Commercial Banking – SME as well as Banking Operations. Robert also worked for the Social Security Bank (now Societe Generale) for 8 years within their Development Finance Division from 1981-1989.
Robert serves on several Boards which include St Jude Hospital Obuasi, Trust Care Hospital Kumasi and Holy Cross Technical Training Institute Takoradi. He is also a Board member of New York University African House and Centre for Technology and Economic Development CTED.
Robert is an astute academic with a BA in Economics from University of Ghana 1981, MSc International Banking and Financial Studies, Edinburgh Business School-Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1990 and was a PhD candidate Economics University of Surrey, Guildford ,United Kingdom 1993-95.
He is an avid fan of Liverpool FC and Asante Kotoko FC, with a passion for music, swimming, basketball and drumming.
Mr. George Ofosuhene
Board Member
Mr. Ofosuhene is an Investment Banker with over twenty-eight years extensive experience
working in high-level positions in the banking industry in Ghana. He was actively involved in the
development of merchant banking products, project evaluation and appraisal, assisting in the
identification of potential investors for projects and offering advice on investment opportunities
and incentives.
Mr Ofosuhene was a member of the team that handled the first two Initial Public Offerings on the
Ghana Stock Exchange in 1992. Also, he was key member of the team that arranged the listing
of eight companies out of initial fifteen companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. This
required undertaking background preparatory work and bringing the companies into compliance
with the Rules and Regulations of the stock exchange.
Mr Ofosuhene played a pioneering role in the establishment and growth of two successful banks
in Ghana, namely, First Atlantic Merchant Bank and The Trust Bank that was acquired by
Ecobank. His main focus at these banks was on the creation of strategies to gain market
presence through identification and implementation of innovative products.
He has twelve years at a senior managerial level of two banks taking active part in policy
formulation and implementation of strategic objectives. He was for four years a member of the
apex committee of First Atlantic Merchant Bank with responsibility at the Board level for the
Bank’s risk assets. He was also a member of the Management Board of the Bank, the apex
decision making committee of the bank and divisional head of its Credit and Marketing wing. He
led a team of seasoned analysts with the primary objective of creating new relationships and
deepening existing relationships.
Currently Mr. Ofosuhene is the Chief Executive Officer of BOND Savings and Loans Plc, a NonBank Financial Institution licensed by Bank of Ghana to provide banking and other financial
services to the business community in Ghana. He has been in this position since inception of the
company in 2008 and continues to provide leadership and strategic direction.
Mr. Venance Dey
Board Member
Mr. Dey has several years of experience in the mining & metals industry, having served
as the Deputy Managing Director of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC).
Mr Dey holds a Master of Science (Msc. ,Facilities Management) degree from Heriot-Watt
University, UK, a Pg Dip. In Development Project Management, International Health from
Queen Margeret University and a Bsc. in Land Economy and Real Estate Management
from KNUST.
He is skilled in negotiation, strategic planning, organizational development, team building,
and change management. He is a strong business development professional and a
Consultant with KRIM Group of Companies & Alzheimer Ghana Limited. During his period
at PMMC, He led a program with the National Security to clamp down on a Gold
smuggling syndicate in 2020.
Mr. Dey was instrumental in the establishment of a new gold assay laboratory for PMMC
consisting of Xray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometer; Electrical Conductivity Tester for
Gold; Technical Specifications for Ultrasonic Flaw Detector; Specific Gravity Frame for
Density Determination.
Dr. George Ayittey
Board Member
George is an accomplished IT consultant with over 25 years of progressive experience creating,
implementing, and maintaining complex infrastructure and technology solutions for financial
institutions including the London Stock Exchange Group, Direct Line Group, Standard Bank,
Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, IBM, Marsh McLennan, and Standard Chartered Bank among
others.
George has worked on short and long-term initiatives in 14 countries in Africa, 2 in Asia, 10 in
Europe, 4 in the Middle East, and the United States of America with a cumulative budget of GBP
£400 million. George holds a Master of Science in Cyber Security degree from Northumbria
University and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security certification from the University of Oxford,
UK. He is pursuing a doctorate in Information Security.
George's latest projects have mainly focused on streamlining operations to support business
processes and implementing technology automation to generate efficient and cost-effective
strategies, where manual repetitive tasks are replaced with processes imbued with artificial
intelligence.