The Marketing and Public Affairs Manager for GPHA Port of Takoradi, Dr. Kingsley Antwi-Boasiako, has been awarded the Outstanding Industry Leadership Award in Corporate Affairs by the Centre for Business Africa (CENBA Africa) at its business excellence awards.
Dr. Antwi-Boasiako – who over the past two decades has worked as a journalist, a marketer, a lecturer and corporate and public affairs practitioner – emerged as winner of the category on the back of his rich experience and excellent corporate affairs practice skills acquired and exhibited over the years.
The CENBA Awards recognise individual and corporate efforts which positively affect the growth of various industries on the continent, and Dr. Antwi-Boasiako’s award is in recognition of his contribution to Corporate Affairs practice in the country.
According to organisers of the awards, the Outstanding Industry Leadership award recognises individuals whose leadership-attributes have contributed to growth in their respective fields of practice as well as organisations and communities in which they work.
The team recognised that Dr. Antwi-Boasiako has rich professional history, has conducted himself well over the years – and had positive impact on the practice of not only Corporate Affairs but also in Marketing and communication.
Starting his professional life as a journalist some 22 years ago, he used this as a springboard and has since then achieved so much for himself, as evidenced in the various roles he has handled both in Ghana and the USA – where he became president of the African Students Union during his graduate education at Ohio University in 2013.
Dr. Antwi-Boasiako had earlier on in his career worked in the marketing and public relations field when he joined Kessben Group of Companies as its Deputy Public Relations Manager – a role that came with combined oversight marketing responsibility in the Kessben Shipping, Kessben F.M, Kessben Hotels and Kessben Travel and Tours units under the Kessben Group of Companies in Kumasi.
He was at one time TV Africa’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent in the mid-2000s, and also wrote articles for the New African Magazine and Ghana Review International – both published in London around the same time.
In 2007, Dr. Kingsley Antwi-Boasiako set up Kingsboy Consult, a marketing and publicity consultancy company, and assisted many clients in their marketing and publicity needs.
After his Diploma in Journalism and Marketing at the Institute of Business Management and Journalism, he obtained a Bachelors in Business Administration (Management) from the University of Education, Kumasi, in 2008.
He was then awarded the prestigious ‘Otumfuo Fellowship Award’ and left to pursue his graduate education at Ohio University in the USA in 2011, where he later became president of the African Students Union in 2012-2013.
He returned in 2017 after earning an MA in International Affairs and a Doctorate degree in Mass Communication from the reputable Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University in Athens Ohio – later becoming the Corporate and Public Affairs Manager for Tema Oil Refinery, a position he held until December 2021.
Dr. Kingsley Antwi-Boasiako is an Accredited Public Relations Practitioner, and a member of both the Ghana Journalists Association (Ashanti Region) and Institute of Public Relations (IPR).
