Felix E. Addo

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Felix Addo
Born
Felix E. Addo

1955
NationalityGhanaian
EducationAccra Academy
Alma materUniversity of Ghana Business School Loyola College, Maryland
OccupationBusiness executive
TitleChairman of Guinness Ghana Breweries

Felix E. Addo (born 1955) is a Ghanaian business executive. He is Chairman of Guinness Ghana Breweries, since 2018. Before taken up this role, Addo served as Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.[1] Felix Addo is a former Country Senior Partner for PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in Ghana. He is the founding president of the Ghana Association Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors(GARIA).[2]

Early life and education[]

Felix Addo was educated at Accra Academy for his secondary education, completing in 1973. He took a bachelor's degree in Business Administration (accounting option) from the University of Ghana Business School and went on to graduate from Loyola College, Maryland with a Masters in Professional Accounting.[3][4]

Career[]

Felix Addo joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1997.[5] He rose to become the Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in Ghana and served as a member of the PwC Africa Governance Board. He worked on the privatisation on the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation and also the Ghana Commercial Bank. He served as the Transaction Advisor to the Government of Ghana on acquisition of the Volta Aluminium Company (Valco).[6]

He was a member of the Date-Bah Business Law Reform Committee of Experts that reviewed the Ghana Companies Act and the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidation) Act.[7]

In 2016,[8] he was made a director of KEK Insurance Brokers.[9] From February 2016 to January 2017, Addo was chairman of the board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).[10][11]

In September 2018, Guinness Ghana named Addo as non-executive chairman of the company.[1] Prior to this, he had been serving as a non-executive director of the company since January, 2017. He became the first Ghanaian to chair GGBL’s board since the merger between Guinness Ghana Ltd.,(GGL) and Ghana Brewery Ltd.,(GBL) in 2004.[12]

He served on the board of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana from August 2015 to June 2019.[13][14] In 2019, he was appointed by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana as an Advisor to the National Investment Bank.[15] In February 2021, he was elected to the board of Scancom PLC (MTN Ghana)[16][17]

Other activities[]

Addo is also Chairman Emeritus of AIESEC Ghana – one of the world’s largest non-profit, youth-run organisations. He is a Corporate Executive in Residence at the Department of Accounting of the University of Ghana. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the University of Ghana-College of Education.[18] He is the Vice President of the Ghana America Chamber of Commerce.[19]

Memberships[]

He has membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana;Institute of Chartered Accountants Sierra Leone and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also the President of the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Guinness appoints Felix Addo as Board Chair". B&FT. 21 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Governing Council President". GARIA. 19 June 2020.
  3. ^ "PwC sets up GH¢100,000 endowment fund". ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  4. ^ "1989 year group of Accra Aca rehabilitates dining hall of alma mater". The Ghanaian Times. 11 January 2018.
  5. ^ Aryeh, Elvis D. (22 December 1997). "PRESS NOTICE:REORGANISATION OF PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS". The Daily Graphic.
  6. ^ "Former PWC partner Felix Addo joins Stanchart board". myjoyonline.com. 18 August 2018.
  7. ^ Emmanuel Bruce (7 May 2019). "Ghana gets new Companies Act after a long wait". graphic.com.gh.
  8. ^ "KEK remembered after 10 years". facebook.com/OVAGlobal1. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Board of Directors". kekgroup.net. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Felix Addo named to keep Alex Mould in Check". Africa Intelligence. 23 February 2016.
  11. ^ "GNPC is broke-Board Chairman". ghanaweb.com. 23 May 2016.
  12. ^ "First Ghanaian appointed to Guinness Ghana Board Chair". myjoyonline.com. 23 October 2018.
  13. ^ "Felix Addo joins Stanchart board". B&FT. August 2015.
  14. ^ "SCB RESIGNATION OF DIRECTOR" (PDF). annualreportsghana.com. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Bank of Ghana "outdoors" Felix Addo as NIB Advisor". graphic.com.gh. 26 January 2019.
  16. ^ "MTN Ghana Appoints four new directors as two step down". theghanareport.com. 20 April 2021.
  17. ^ "MTN Ghana appoints 4 onto its board". myjoyonline.com. 20 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Felix E. Addo Corporate Executive in Residence". ugbs.edu.gh.
  19. ^ "American Chamber of Commerce elects new President". The Daily Graphic. 8 September 2018.
  20. ^ Yeboah, Isaac (26 June 2019). "Felix Addo appointed Advisor of the National Investment Bank". The Daily Gtaphic.

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