Scancom Plc. (MTN Ghana) has announced that the terms of Mr. Kwasi Abeasi and Mr. Modupe Kadri as Board Members of the Company has ended with effect from March 1, 2021.
Mr. Kwasi Abeasi joined the Board of MTN Ghana in 2011 as an Independent Non-Executive Director, bringing a wealth of experience to the Board over his 10-year period of service.
Mr. Modupe Kadri served MTN Ghana as Chief Financial Officer from 2014 to 2019, as Executive Director of MTN Ghana from 2015 to 2019, and as a Non-Executive Director of the Company from 2019.
Mrs. Pala Asiedu Ofori, Secretary to the company, in a statement, said the Board of Directors of MTN Ghana and its subsidiaries have expressed their gratitude to Mr. Abeasi and Mr. Kadri for their sterling service and dedication to the Company, and for their impressive performance on the Board, and wished them every success in all their future endeavors.
According to the Secretary, Scancom Plc. (MTN Ghana), in line with its aim of increasing skills and diversity, has appointed new Independent Non-Executive Directors (INEDs), effective 1 March 2021. They include Mr. Felix Addo, Ms. Nana Ama Botchway, R. Kofi Dadzie, and Ms. Rosie Ebe-Arthur.
Mrs. Ofori disclosed that the Independent Non-Executive Directors shall hold office until the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, where they shall be eligible for re-election by the shareholders of Scancom Plc.
The Secretary revealed that Mr. Felix Addo is a Member of the Ghana Institute of Chartered Accountants, with over 30 years’ experience. He served as a Partner at PWC over an 18-year period across a wide range of engagements in both developed and emerging markets, including transactions, insolvencies and turnarounds, financial and forensic audits and various projects in both the private and public sectors.
She stated that he has since developed a portfolio of board roles in the consumer, financial services and the oil and gas sectors, and is currently serves on the boards of various organizations including Guinness Ghana Breweries (Chairman), Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (President), as well as various for profit and non-profit organisations.
She indicated that Ms. Nana Ama Botchway is the founder and managing partner of N. Dowuona & Company, a leading corporate and commercial law firm in Ghana. Her main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, energy and infrastructure.
She said, Ms. Botchway regularly advises local and global companies on cross border mergers, acquisitions, and energy and infrastructure projects. She began her career in New York where she worked as a lawyer at two leading global law firms, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett and Cooley, and as an audit accountant at Deloitte Touche Tomahtsu. S
The statement further revealed that, Ms. Botchway is a graduate of Princeton University, New York University’s Stern School of Business and Columbia University School of Law. She brings a wealth of experience to MTN Ghana having served as a non-executive director on a number of boards, including Ghana Airports Company Ltd., the Ghana Petroleum Sovereign Wealth Funds, GHL Bank Ltd, where she chaired the Remuneration Committee, and Brainworks Capital.
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