Four Executives of the Jospong Group of Companies were among about 70 chief executive officers awarded at the weekend for outstanding contribution to their sectors of operation at the 2023 Ghana CEO Vision Awards held in Accra.
Mr. Daniel Asiedu, Managing Director-OmniBSIC Bank, was awarded Personality of the Year-Private Sector; Ing. Mrs. Florence Awaa Cobbold, Managing Director-Sewerage Systems Ghana Ltd. received the Outstanding Leadership award –Female category; and Mr. Michael Padi Tuwor, Managing Director-Accra Compost and Recycling Plant Limited was awarded CEO of the Year-Sanitation category; also awarded was Dr. Philip Oti-Mensah, who received the Chief Operating Officer of the Year 2023 award.
The Ghana CEO Vision & Awards is in its second year, and was held under the theme ‘The role of business leadership toward achieving the SDGS in Ghana’.
Among others, the awards scheme seeks to identify, honour and celebrate a cross-section of the nation’s most influential and accomplished CEOs, who have stayed relevant and used the power of ideas to impact lives and the country in general.
Vice-president Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia underscored the private sector’s critical role in promoting sustainable development and achieving the SDGs, and the indispensable role of the public sector in providing an enabling environment for the private sector in areas of macro-economic stability, unique national identification and address systems, financial inclusion through mobile money interoperability, domestic revenue mobilisation, and credit systems through credit-scoring among others.
Ms. Sophia Kujordzi, Chief Corporate Communications Officer-Jospong Group, in her response and remarks on behalf of awardees expressed profound gratitude to all external and internal stakeholders of the Jospong Group Companies for their continuous support and patronage in ensuring that the Jospong Group keeps leading in every sector they operate in.
Mr. Latif Abubakar, the brain behind the awards scheme, in his welcome remarks submitted that the Ghana CEO Vision Awards is the ultimate platform for celebrating visionaries who have thrived against the odds and rendered ideas into existence.
The event was attended and addressed by dignitaries including Charles Abani, United Nations Resident Coordinator; Javier Guitierrez, Spanish Ambassador to Ghana; Harriet Thompson, British High Commissioner to Ghana; Mark Okraku-Mantey, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture; King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, King of the Ga state, and several other dignitaries.
