Dr. Fritz Gockel (Board Chair)

Dr. Gockel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University Of Ghana, Legon, Ghana and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.  He instructs numerous courses at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels including Monetary Theory and Practice, and Economic Policy Analysis, Design and Evaluation.  He also supervises doctoral and master’s level dissertations, and is an external examiner at University of Cape Coast. 

He is a Visiting Lecturer in the MPhil Programme for Anglophone Africa under the Auspices of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi and a member of the PhD Academic Committee of the AERC.  Dr. Gockel has participated in instructional programmes of the Ghana Stock Exchange, and has presented papers at several national and international conferences.  He has several publications to his credit in both local and international journals.  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. Simon Dornoo (Managing Director)

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. Samuel Sarpong (Chief Transformation Officer)

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). 

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. Adelaide Benneh (Non-Executive Director)

Mrs. Adelaide Benneh was born on 19th October 1943.  She had her secondary education at Aburi Girls Secondary School from 1957 to 1963 where she was appointed Senior prefect.  She also obtained ‘O’ and ‘A’ level Certificates there.>

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

Mr. Elliot Gordor (Non-Executive Director)

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.

Mr. Moses Asaga

Moses Asaga was born 1-June 1957, married with three boys and enjoys reading, playing tennis and squash.

He holds a Bsc. Industrial Chemistry, University of Science & Technology; Msc . Petroleum Engineering, Aberdeen University; MBA Finance from Yonsei University and MPhil Financial Economics from Durham University, U.K. He worked with Daishin Securities & Investments in Seoul as Industrial Analyst for companies listed on Korea stock exchange. He has certificate/diplomas from Harvard University where he completed a course on Global Financial Crises (Emerging Markets, Banks etc.)

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Mr. Kweku Ricketts-Hagan

Kweku Ricketts-Hagan was born in Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. He obtained his first degree in BSc Economics in 1991 and MSc Finance (Financial Economics) in 1995-96 at Birkbeck College University of London, UK. He did MBA Finance in 2003–2005 Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Kweku Ricketts-Hagan also did Postgraduate Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations at Whitehead School of Diplomacy, Seton Hall University in the United States from 2004-2005.

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