About Us
Representing 100+ Years Of Excellence In Education
Executive Council
Our work would not be possible without the support of our motivated leadership team. Our Board of Trustees provide guidance and governance for Spio-Garbrah Foundation as a whole.
Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
Executive Chairman
Born in 1953 in Ghana, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah is one of Africa’s most internationally accomplished public servants and corporate executives, with vast experience on several corporate boards. He served as Ghana’s Minister for Trade and Industry, Minister of Communications, Minister of Education and Acting Minister of Mines & Energy. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Ghana’s ambassador to the United States and Mexico. A graduate of the University of Ghana, Ohio University and New York University, Ekwow has served as the CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) based in London. He is a former member of UNESCO’s Executive Board and former director of publicly listed firms such as South Africa Telekom, AngloGold Ashanti and Vodacom.
Bishop Dr. Aramansah Spio-Garbrah
Executive Vice Chairman
Dr. Barnor established the Action Medical Centre after the Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams introduced her to Integrative medicine in 2013. She ran the medical centre for 3years, after which she returned to Barnor Memorial. Hospital, a hospital her father had turned over to her to run in the year 1995. She, however, continued to use the knowledge she had acquired and noted the superior outcomes obtained when she applied these methods to the management of her patients, particularly those with chronic conditions and the elderly.
Maxwell Nii Commey
Member
Objectives
To contribute towards organizational growth through quality leadership.
Skills
▪ Entrepreneur
▪ Ms Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Publisher
▪ Report Writing
Personal qualities
▪ Good interpersonal and communication skills
▪ Able to handle pressure situations
▪ Able to work unsupervised and learns fast with creativity.
▪ Adaptive to environment
▪ Patient and polite
Academia
▪ Bagabaga Science Teacher Training Collage – 1997
▪ TI Ahmediyya Senior Secondary School, Kumasi – 1993
▪ RC Primary School & Junior Secondary School, Tepa – 1990
Leadership and Experience
▪ Director [ Cegcom Haulage Ghana Limited (Expert in Palm Oil Haulage)], 2019 to date.
▪ Managing Director [Maxethema Company Limited (Facility Management)], 2018 to date.
▪ Managing Director [ Oro Oil Ghana Limited], 2011 to date.
▪ PRO/ Organizing Secretary [Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana (OPDAG)], 2015-2019
▪ Team Supervisor [Innse Cilindri Di Brescia, Italy] 2000-2010
▪ Teacher [Mmredane Estate Junior Secondary School] 1999-1999
▪ Teacher [Kotokrom LA Primary School] 1997-1998
Certification
▪ TEACHER TRAINING CERTIFICATE 1997
▪ WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE 1993
▪ BASIC EDUCATION CERTIFICATE 1990
Strengths
▪ Optimistic
▪ Hardworking
▪ Able to work individually as well as in group
Interests
▪ Internet surfing
▪ Listening to motivational messages
▪ Swimming
Dr. G. Akanlug Agulijam
Member
Akanlug Agulijam is a hands-on professional with competences, experience and qualifications in Financial Management, Business Strategy, Business Development [for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)] and Corporate Restructuring; Human and Institutional Capacity Building, Youth Development and Empowerment; Resilience Building, Institutional Strengthening, Organisation Development (OD), Advocacy and Community-Driven Development (CDD) Approaches.
He has been involved in Feasibility Studies, Research and Baseline surveys; Mid-Term Reviews (MTR), End-Term Evaluations (ETE), Independent Verification of Projects, Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Management; Private Enterprise Development support, Business Innovations and Incubation support; Corporate Governance and Development Finance.
Additionally, he has been in the development and preparation of proposals, business concepts, business plans, strategy papers, public/private policy documents and other relevant documentation.
He holds a BA degree, an MBA (Financial Management) and Doctorate degree with concentration in Financial Strategy and Business Development. These have been acquired in Ghana and the United Kingdom (UK).
He has over twenty-five (25) years of experience in Ghana, a good number of African countries and the United Kingdom (UK).
His clients and partners have been in the public sector and its interface with the Private Sector, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Charities and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as well as donor-funded projects (bilateral and multilateral) in Ghana, the West African Sub-region and the United Kingdom.
ome of his clients and partner organisations are – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Office for Projects Services (UNOPS), European Union (EU), World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) – Sanitation and Water Project (SWP) – IDA funded, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), African Development Bank (AfDB), Resilient African Network (RAN) – the West Africa Resilient Lab (WARILAB) – a USAID sponsored programme among others.
He has operated in the following sectors – Financial Services and Development Financing; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Environment and Resource Development; Agriculture, Agribusiness and Value Chain Development; Energy, Renewable Energy, Governance, Health, Education and other social services.
In academia, he was a lecturer at the London College of Management Studies (LCMS) in the UK and a part-time lecturer at the Concord Business College in Accra.
He serves/served on a good number of Boards.
Some of these are:
- Innovations Advisory Board (IAB) of the West Africa Resilient Lab (WARILAB) of USAID’s Resilient Africa Network (RAN) – Member.
- The Task Review Working Group (TRWG) of the World Bank’s Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA SWP) – IDA Project – Member.
- SAIDMO Realities Company Limited – Chairman.
- Board of Governors of Concord Business College (CBC), a Subsidiary of London College of Management Studies (LCMS) in Accra – Member.
- SkyFox Company Limited – Chairman.
- Heritage Business Services (HBS) Limited in Accra – Chairman.
- YABCO Group of Companies in Bolgatanga – Chairman.
- Deliberative Poll (DP) Advisory Committee of the West Africa Resilient Lab (WARILAB) under USAID’s Resilient Africa Network (RAN) – Member.
Currently, he is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the BULATON Business Centre, responsible for the provision of strategic leadership and technical direction as well as the overall planning, management and development of businesses and projects for BULATON, its clients and partners.
Sebastian Kobby Spio-Garbrah
Member
Nana Spio-Garbrah
Member
Nana Spio-Garbah is the Manager of the Client Solutions Division at the African Development Bank responsible for financial products development particularly around risk mitigation, structured finance as well as sovereign lending and project finance advisory. Her division focuses on driving financial innovation in AfDB-led transactions using local currency, insurance, guarantees and derivatives. She also leads the AfDB’s balance sheet optimization initiatives which seek to risk share on the Bank’s seasoned loans and assets at origination with public and private sector counterparties as part of the institution’s exposure management strategies. She has worked on the structuring of large-scale public and private sector infrastructure transactions throughout her 12-year career at the AfDB. Prior to the Client Solutions division, she has worked in various other departments including Treasury, Resource Mobilization and External Finance and the energy sector PPPs origination team.
Prior to joining the AfDB, she worked for Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Consultant in the Public Sector practice where her main clients were the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Justice Departments.
Ms. Spio-Garbrah holds a M.Sc. in Finance and Development from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a bachelor’s degree in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS).
