TOMA IMIRHE (Non Executive Director)
Toma Imirhe is one of the most knowledgeable and consequently respected financial journalists in Ghana. Indeed he has now attained the professional status of a financial and economist analysts rather than just a commentator. Although he is the Consulting Editor of The Business Executive magazine and is a technical consultant to the TBE Media Group as a whole he is a non-executive Director of the Group.
At various times he has been editor of B&FT newspaper and has edited the now defunct High Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Goldstreet Business newspapers respectively. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Corporate Guardian magazine and Toma Means Business news feature portal. He is also a regular guest/panelist on various business and economy programmes on television and radio. He is also an Executive Director of MC&W Korporate Phocus a professional independent contract publishing and corporate communications firm.
An economist by academic qualification, secured from the Obafemi Awlolowo University, Ile-Ife, in Nigeria and economic researcher by subsequent professional training, Toma has worked with KPMG in Nigeria as well as in investment banking and non-bank finance. In Ghana he has executed professional contracts for several leading corporate institutions and was a member of government’s Inter-Institutional Committee that designed Ghana’s Trade Policy in 2002/3.
BARONESS PAULETTE KPORO (Executive Director)
Paulette Kporo is Nigerian by nationality but she is permanently domiciled in Ghana. She is a professional media and corporate events marketer who has applied her professional skills and her aptitude and talent for entrepreneurship to establish and nurture The Business Executive Media Group of which she is now the Group CEO and an Executive Director.
She has a bachelors degree in Economics obtained from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria before her relocation to Ghana.
She began her professional career in the media at BusinessWeek, a weekly business and financial newspaper published from Accra.
In 2014 she left her position as General Manager of the newspaper to establish The Business Executive, a monthly, full colour magazine circulating across Africa, North America, the United Kingdom and Dubai in hard copy format and globally in digital format.
Paulette has diversified TBE’s activities into corporate events organized in Ghana and subsequently in Nigeria and across Africa through dedicated subsidiaries, first by introducing award schemes and then organizing corporate capacity building events such as seminars, workshops and conferences as well as establishing networking platforms for businesses and institutions to network.
Paulette’s non-media and events business interests are consolidated in another subsidiary called Teluap Limited.
A committed advocate of good corporate governance and the empowerment of women, Paulette is a pan Africanist in outlook who seeks to help the continent gain a stronger position in the global economy
Paulette is a widow. She has a daughter, Stephanie. She is a devout Christian who plays active roles in her church.
PROFESSOR GOSKY ALABI (Non Executive Director)
Professor Goski Alabi is one of Ghana’s most reputed academics, authors and entrepreneurs. She was the founding Dean of the School Graduate Studies at the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA). She is a co- founder and President of Laweh Open University which is the first accredited Open University College in Ghana established in 2014.
She has a long standing close relationship with the TBE Media Group serving as a technical consultant for its activities, a regular resource person at its conferences, workshops and seminars and a member of several of the specially constituted Award Selection Juries of Experts for both local and pan African awards schemes organized by the Group.
Goski Alabi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and a Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast.She obtained a Master of Philosophy in Food Science from the University of Ghana, and a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the Swiss Management Centre. She also holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration from the Central University of Nicaragua.
Alabi’s academic career has primarily been at UPSA – where she is currently the Dean of the Centre for International Education and Collaboration Serving in those roles, she proposed and facilitated the establishment of two Leadership Centres, the Drolor Centre for Strategic Leadership and Otumfuo Centre for Traditional Leadership at the university campus.
She is currently a Professor of Quality Management and Leadership. She co-founded Laweh Open University College along with her husband Prof. Joshua.
Professor Alabi has published several scholarly and peer reviewed journal articles, books chapters, books, conference and technical papers
She is also the founder of GAB Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) dedicated to the cause of the vulnerable and marginalised in the society. The foundation has been operating over 20 years.
She is married to Professor Joshua Alabi, a renown Ghanaian academic and politician who served as the first Vice-Chancellor of UPSA from 2012 to 2016.They have two children
KWASI ABEASI (Non Executive Director)
Mr. Kwasi Abeasi is currently the Chief Executive of Africa Investconsult Limited and a lead consultant for the ECOWAS Commission’s Private Sector Directorate. He is also the Board Chairman of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) and Forms Capital Ltd. He also serves on the Boards of Goldfields Ghana Ltd., Abosso Goldfield Ltd. and others.
He previously worked with the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), Mobil Oil Ghana Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB). He was the Managing Director of Ghana Oil Company (GOIL), Director-General of the Private Enterprise Foundation (PEF) and the CEO/MD of the African Business Roundtable (ABR) in South Africa.
Kwasi holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, an MBA in Operations Management & Marketing from the Syracuse University, an Advanced Management Certificate from the Harvard University Business School and Top-Level management of Public Enterprises certificate from the National University of Singapore. Mr. Abeasi has also held a number of leadership roles outside business. Some of these include being the Past Assistant Governor (PAG) of Rotary International and a Past President of the Rotary Club of Accra-North.
AUSTIN GAMEY (Non Executive Director)
Austin Akufo Gamey is arguably the most respected and acclaimed labor dispute resolution expert and consultant in Ghana. He served for two terms as member of parliament for North Tongu constituency in the Volta region of Ghana, from 1992 to 2001. During the Jerry John Rawlings administration he was deputy minister for employment and social welfare now ministry of employment and labor relations He is a labor expert and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practitioner in Ghana.
He studied Advanced Industrial Relations at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone studied Industrial relations and labor standards at the Institute of labor studies, in Geneva and Turin Center. From 1997 to 1998 He studied International labor relations and conflict resolution at various institutions and universities in the United States of America and Canada. He also had training in Mediation and interest based negotiation with FMCS in Washington. Later, in 1996, he obtained a certificate in Preventive and Professional Coaching in Mediation from Mediation Training Institute International in Kansas city in the US.
From 1997 to 1999 he studied labor management at the Japan Institute of Labor in Japan.
He was the president of the Institute of Human Resource and Management Practitioners, Ghana from 1998 to 2003. From 2004 to 2006, he was Presidential Commissioner on pensions.
In 2002 he set up the Gamey and Gamey Academy of Mediation of which he is the chief executive officer. The company is made up of Alternative Dispute Resolution consultancy and training firms.
He is married to Gladys Gamey who is a retired teacher. He has six children – four boys and two girls. He is a Christian and a Pastor at the Token Tabernacle.