Wall of Honor: Every successful leader has at one point or another looked up to another successful leader. This page is where we celebrate our proud sons and daughters of Ghana who exemplify the best in the Ghanaian spirit through their vision, passion, leadership, thirst for excellence and high sense of social responsibilty. We feature one Ghanaian of note every month to inspire and urge on the spirit of enterprise and innovation in young people.
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Ken Ofori-Atta is the Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Databank Financial Services Limited (Ghana). Databank is an Investment Banking firm providing corporate finance, stockbrokerage, asset management, private equity and research services, and was established in Ghana in 1990 with $25,000 in seed capital. Databank’s affiliated companies have since acquired significant interests in an insurance company in Ghana, a commercial bank in The Gambia, and several real estate assets. Databank Brokerage has become the leading stockbrokerage firm in Ghana, while Databank Asset Management offers the most successful Pan African mutual fund product, EPACK, in Africa. Mr. Ofori-Atta is a Director for several private and publicly listed companies and he is the Chairman of The Trust Bank of The Gambia.
Prior to co-founding Databank, Mr. Ofori-Atta worked with Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers in New York. He is a graduate of the Achimota School in Ghana, he has a BA in Economics from Columbia University (’84), and an MBA from the Yale School of Management (’88). He is married to Angela and has three children.
Mr. Ofori-Atta was the first African Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Leadership programme and is the co-founder and chairman of the Aspen affiliated Africa Leadership Initiative in Ghana (ALI). He has been honored as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum of Davos. He is also a member of the President of Ghana’s Investors’ Advisory Council and a member of TechnoServe International.
We the members of the Ghana Youth Leadership Alliance find him worthy of honor and emulation for his commitment to development in Ghana through business innovation and his organization’s corporate social responsibility. Mr.Ofori-Atta typifies what Ghanaian students and young professionals overseas can do in Ghana if they set their minds to it. He has also done a lot for youth leadership empowerment in Ghana and Africa as a whole. We salute him!
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