GCB has a twelve-member board with:
- Mr. Kojo. Thompson as the Board Chairman
- Mr. Simon Dornoo as the Managing Director
- Mr. Samuel Sarpong as Deputy Managing Director In Charge Of Operations
- Mr. Samuel Amankwah as Deputy Managing Director In Charge Of Finance
Mr. P. Kojo Thompson
Mr. Thompson retired from SSB Bank in 2003 after fifteen (15) years at the bank’s helm of affairs. During his tenure of office as Chief Executive he had anchored the management team which restructured the then Social Security Bank from its distressed state in the 1980’s through its turnaround into a viable attractive institution. This enabled the bank to be subsequently listed on the stock exchange and privatized to a majority foreign-owned entity in the late 1990’s. Along the way he successfully accomplished the only merger of banks ever done in Ghana.
He has an academic background in Economics as well as Business Administration, with studies in Ghana, Japan and Britain. A firm believer in training his company’s human resources, he attended annual seminars and workshops in many countries during his active days in executive management.
Mr. Thompson has served on the Boards of many companies in Ghana over his working life.
Mr. Simon Dornoo was appointed Managing Director of Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd. (GCB) effective March 04, 2010. He joined GCB from Barclays Bank of Ghana Ltd. where he worked in various Senior Management positions from January 1999 to March 2010. He worked locally with Barclays Bank of Ghana as Finance Director and Country Tresurer as well as with Barclays PLC, U.K. being the first African to be appointed as Finance Director for Barclays Africa and the Indian Ocean with oversight responsibility for ten countries.
Simon began his carrier with KPMG in 1985 where he trained and later worked as an Audit Senior until 1990. As one of the pioneers of CAL Bank in 1990 he was the first Financial Controller and he subsequently held other senior level positions in the Bank until December 1998. Simon has served on various Boards, mainly in the financial services sector.
He is a chartered accountant by profession. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana and has an MBA degree from Manchester Business School, United Kingdom.
Mr. Kwetey has an Economics background and worked for a number of years in the investment banking industry as a Financial Analyst, Funds Manager and a Stockbroker. He also lectured capital market courses on the Ghana Stock Exchange for a number of years.
He is currently the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. As part of his responsibilities, Hon. Kwetey has direct supervisory responsibility over the following: Economic Planning, Financial Services sector and Oil and Gas issues.
He is also in charge of the Public Procurement Authority, Securities Exchange Communication (SEC), Ghana Stock Exchange, Ghana Statistical Service, Cocoa Sector, Customs Excise and Preventive Service and the Department of National Lotteries.
He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also has a Diplome Superieur DU Francais Des Affairs from the Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Paris.
Mr. Kwetey at various times worked as a Financial Analyst and Stockbroker at the Strategic African Securities and Investment Advisor and Funds Manager at the CDH Financial Holdings Ltd. from 1998 to 2002.
Mr. Prempeh is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana. He holds an honours degree in Economics from the Lancaster University, in England.
He has a rich working experience in finance and business management acquired over the years from the United Kingdom and Ghana. He has worked with reputable companies like SCOA, TOR, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG.
He is currently a Corporate and Financial Consultant and serves on the Boards of Densu Industries Ltd., SDC Finance and Leasing Company Ltd., TV3 Network Ltd. and Union Management Services Ltd.
Mr Samuel Amankwah joined the Bank in 2000 and was appointed Deputy Managing Director responsible for Finance in 2008. Mr Samuel Amankwah holds a degree from De-Montfort University, Leicester U.K. (MSc. Accounting & Finance).
He is a Fellow of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) - London, and a Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana). Mr Amankwah has about 26 years professional experience in both Ghana and London in the areas of Accounting and Finance.
Prior to joining the Bank, he worked at Unilever (UAC) Ghana Limited as Auditor from 1982 - 1985, then from 1985 -1987 he was on Secondment to Guinness Ghana Limited from UAC Ghana Limited as Production Accounts Manager, 1989 - 1993, worked with NCP Metropolitan Police Car Pound (UK) as a cashier, 1996 - 1998 worked with Adomako-Basoah & Co, Norbury (UK) as an Accountant, and from 1998 - 2000, worked with JSA Accountancy Services, Watford (UK) as an Accountant.
Mr Amankwah joined GCB in March 2000 as the Deputy Head, Accounts Division, and from September 2007 to August 2008 was the General Manager, Treasury Division. Mr Amankwah is currently serving as Acting Board Chairman of Activity Venture Finance Co. Ltd, which is a joint Venture between GCB, ADB, and Venture Capital Trust Fund.
He also represents GCB on the CDH Financial Holdings Ltd, and is the Director of Finance of Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Kaneshie and also a member of the Audit and Accounts Committee of the Church.
Dr. Gockel has considerable experience in economic policy analysis and economic reform measures. He has been a consultant to many local and international institutions including the World Bank, USAID, ILO, UNDP, UNECA, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, National Development Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and West African Monetary Institute.
Mr. Samuel Sarpong joined GCB in March, 2008 Mr. Samuel Sarpong holds degrees from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (B.Sc. Agric); University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (M.Sc. Agric.); and Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada (MBA).
He has also completed many professional courses including the Canadian Securities (Stock Exchange) course.
Mr. Sarpong has worked in both private and public sectors in Ontario, Canada over the past 18 years. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Policy Adviser in the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food and the Ministry of Economic Development & Trade.
In 1996, he joined Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), holding progressively senior roles in Credit Risk Management including Director, Lending Products.
During his 9 years at CIBC, he worked in 3 divisions, Retail & Small Business Lending, BizSmart and CIBC Visa. In 2005, he left CIBC to join General Electric Corporation's Consumer Lending business (GE Money Canada). As Senior Manager, Mr. Sarpong served as Risk Leader for 3 business units - Credit Cards, Risk Infrastructure & Fraud and Mortgages.
Mrs. Osei has an LLB Hons from the University Of Ghana and was admitted to the Ghana Bar in 1994. She holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) from Queen’s University, Canada and a Masters in Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South Africa. She has significant experience in several facets of Law with particular specialization in Corporate/Business Law, Banking, Investment and Employment Law.
In the past 15 years, she has gained a wealth of experience as General Counsel & Company Secretary for financial institutions and international corporate establishments, advising on compliance and regulatory issues, corporate financing and restructuring, negotiating transactions and human resource management issues. She consults on a variety of areas and provides support services for several Ghanaian companies, foreigner investors and international development agencies in Ghana.
She was subsequently admitted to the University of Ghana and obtained a BA(Hons) Degree in French with Spanish.
She pursued a post graduate course in Management at the University of Manchester UK and was awarded MSc Degree in Management Sciences in 1987.
She was employed at Bank of Ghana in 1968 and held a number of appointments including Director and Head of Human Resources Department and Adviser to the Governor of Bank of Ghana.
Her publications include:
- ‘Human Resource Development at Bank of Ghana’ Published by World Bank 1998.
- ‘Human Resource Management and Women In Financial Sector’ Published in an Edited Book 'Experiences In Capacity Building of Ghanaian Women ‘Asempa Publisher, Christian Council of Ghana – 2001
Mrs. Benneh is married with six children.
Mr. Peprah worked for Texas instruments, (TI) in Dallas Texas for some fifteen (15) years, starting as a Design Engineer with the Semiconductor Division. He held several key positions culminating in his position as Applications Engineering Manager, during which time he managed several Digital Logic Design projects at TI and was a member of the team that introduced the world famous Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip that has become an integral part of most telecom and computing systems.
Since returning to Ghana in 1995 Mr. Peprah was involved in the establishment of the first Data Communications company that used the X.25 protocol (DATATEL), as Director for Operations and Marketing, to provide Wide Area Networking (WAN) services to several Banking, Financial and Oil Marketing companies of Ghana.
In 1998 he established Computing Networks and Systems Integration (CNSI) Limited, an Engineering Services company that provides Networking and Process Automation solutions to corporate clients in the Refinery, Power Generation and Manufacturing sectors of the Ghanaian economy. CNSI holds the local agencies for Honeywell Industrial Automation and Liquid Automation Systems (LAS) of South Africa.
Since 2002 to date, Mr. Peprah has been the Director for Regulations and Licensing (now Regulatory Administration) Division of the National Communications Authority (NCA). He has contributed immensely to the liberalization and rapid growth of the ICT/Telecoms market in Ghana, which now boasts of close to 55% penetration in total communications access lines (fixed and mobile), with several of the world class operators represented.
He also has oversight responsibility for the Frequency Management Division of the NCA.
Mr. Peprah has extensive experience through active participation in the International Telecommunications Union – Telecom sector (ITU-T) system, and currently is part of the experts’ group working on the ’ITU mark’ project, after guiding its successful acceptance at the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA-08) in October 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mr. Peprah was born in Kumasi on 27th June, 1951 and is married with four (4) children.
His hobbies include golfing, reading, travelling and offering voluntary services to the underprivileged in the community wherever he finds himself.
He is a Past President of the Tema LIONS club.
As a consultant she has provided legal, financial and investment advice to the Government of Ghana on transactions in the mining, natural resources and energy sectors. In South Africa she served as a transaction adviser in the setting up of the second national telecommunications operator, and as a consultant on a review of development finance institutions in South Africa undertaken by the National Treasury.
Ms. Lamptey has served on the boards of the Securities Discount Company (SDC) and Gliksten W. A. as well as being a founder member of the board of the Ghana Stock Exchange. She holds L.L.B. and B.L. degrees from the University of Ghana and the Ghana Law School respectively, and an L.L.M. in International Business Law from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) of the University of London.
Mr. Elliot Gordor is a seasoned business executive with over twenty-five years experience. He is also the Managing Director of Gelloq Company (GH) limited, a major player in Ghana’s haulage and logistic industry with subsidiaries in Togo and the United States of America (USA), Concepts Export Ltd, a logistics company and a director of Conway & Sons LLC, USA and the Tema Development Corporation.
Mr. Gordor is a product of the University of Ghana and the University of Mississippi with specialization in Business Administration.
