Mr. Kweku Awotwi

Kweku A. Awotwi is currently the Board Chairman of United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Ltd, the Multimedia Group Ltd in Ghana, and the non-profit sports for development organization, Playsoccer Ghana which he co-founded in 1999. He has been the past Board Chairman of Stanbic Bank (Ghana) Ltd (2012 – 2018), and Ghana’s Volta River Authority (2017-2021).

An electrical engineer by training, Kweku started out his career designing integrated circuits for ITT and GE/RCA in the United States. After his MBA, he has been primarily involved in the energy and mining industries. He was a Manager, Business Planning for the Primary Aluminum Unit of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation in Oakland, California; Managing Director of New Business & Strategic Planning, Ashanti Goldfields Company Ltd, Accra, London; Chief Executive office of the Volta River Authority 2009- 2013, and Executive Vice President of Tullow Oil plc. in London, England, which he left in 2020.

In between corporate assignments, he has been involved in several entrepreneurial ventures that include a US$1 Billion 375 MW independent power project, Cenpower Generation, which he co-founded and developed, and has been in commercial operation since 2019; a gold mining company listed in Hong Kong, an oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company focused on Africa; and a smart meter manufacturing company built in Northern Nigeria.

Mr. Awotwi has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, and a B.S in Electrical Engineering, Economics and Political Science from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.