Angela Kyeramaten-Jimoh joins Bank of Ghana Board
Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh has been sworn in by President Akufo-Addo as a member of the Governing Board of the Bank of Ghana.
The
swearing-in was hosted at the Jubilee House by the president on Friday 20th August
2021, where the President charged the board to use their diverse experience and
skills to support the agenda of the bank and help formulate policies necessary
for the achievement of its objectives
Angela, who is an
international business leader with local and international stints is currently
the Executive Director/Regional Head for IBM North, East and West Africa where
she is responsible for the organization’s business and strategy across 35
countries in Africa.
She is the first woman and first African to occupy this position.
Since joining IBM Ghana
in 2011, she has worked across various business units in East and West Africa. Angela was also IBM’s
strategy leader for Central, East and West Africa and in 2015 became the first female Country General Manager for IBM Ghana, a role that
made her the first female country manager in Africa and saw her broker some of
the largest deals in East and West Africa. Angela held a global role for IBM as the
Chief of Staff to the SVP of Global Markets in IBM’s headquarters in the United States of
America.
Prior to joining IBM,
she worked for UBS Investment Bank and ABN AMRO Bank in the UK. Angela also worked for
GL Trade, a leading software company as their Marketing Executive for London
and Northern Europe. In Ghana, she later
became Head of Consumer
Banking for GT Bank Ghana and also headed Prestige Banking for UBA Bank Ghana.
She is a recipient of
the US African Women Forum’s Global Impact Leadership Award, African Achievers
Awards for Excellence in Business and is also ranked as one of Africa’s most
influential women by Avance Media.
She has served on many
boards including Allianz Insurance Ltd, Bayport Savings and Loans PLC, US Africa
Business Center (US Chamber of Commerce), AMCHAM Ghana, Impact Investing Ghana Ltd, Student
Loans Trust Fund and many more.
Angela is a proud mother to
two boys,
an Alumna of the Harvard
Business School
and a product of Wesley Girls High School and Achimota College.
The Bank of Ghana board
will be chaired by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison and
has Dr
Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Elsie Addo Awadzi, Charles Kofi Adu Boahen, Angela
Kyerematen-Jimoh, Professor Eric Osei Assibey, Comfort
Ocran, Dr Kwame
Owusu-Nyantekyi, Dr Samuel Nii-Noi Ashong, Jude Kofi Bucknor, Joseph Blignam
Alhassan, Andrew Adinorte Boye-Doe, and Dr Regina Adutwum as members.
by Prince Akpah
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