By A. Kapini Atafori
Top local Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) will be decorated with awards at the 5th Ghana Industry CEO Awards held on 18th November, 2022 at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra.
The Ghana Industry CEO Awards, dubbed Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Awards, will be hosted on the theme: ‘Supporting the Digitalization Agenda to drive Economic Growth in Ghana.’
This year’s edition of the awards has introduced the novelty of ‘Ghana Titans,’ the first-ever set of the most exclusive and outstanding group of business-persons.
‘Ghana Titans’ is made up of the most distinguished entrepreneurs, corporate/institutional executives, investors, and captains of commerce in Ghanaian corporate community.
To ensure exclusivity, about 10 personalities will be conferred with the title ‘Ghana Titans’ this year, and the awards will subsequently be conferred once every five years.
The selection process was the most comprehensive, credible and competitive to date due to the long age of the awards. Based on consequent prestige, the awardees are entitled to adopt ‘Ghana Titan’ as a formal title, which is expected to be widely accepted by corporate colleagues, subordinates, and the public as a whole.
The invitation-only, red carpet buffer gala ceremony will be attended by top-level CEOs, eminent social entrepreneurs, prominent public officials, civil society operators, academics, members of the diplomatic corps, heads/representatives of multinational organizations based in Ghana, traditional rulers, among others.
The event is the annual flagship awards scheme organized by The Business Executive Limited and its partners.
The prestigious awards are aimed at identifying and publicly recognizing the most accomplished Chief Executives in Ghana across a wide range of sectors. Potential award winners include CEOs of both private and public sector corporations and institutions.
According to the organizers, awardees were selected by the Ghanaian public who first nominated CEOs for shortlisting, following verification of the nominations, and who subsequently voted for the shortlisted nominees, with individuals and entities receiving the highest votes in each category being declared the winners by the scheme’s Jury and Official Validation Partners.
This year’s edition witnessed the entry of over four million nominations, with close to 600 nominees being shortlisted for public voting.
The company organizes and hosts several awards schemes in Ghana, in other African countries, and on international basis. In Ghana and Nigeria, it organizes the Ghana Industry CEO Awards, Business Executive Excellence Awards, Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards, Feminine Nigeria Achievement Awards, Nigeria’s Most Respected CEOs Awards, the Ghana Development Awards, and others.
At the international level, the company organized the African-Global Trade and Investment Awards in Dubai, UAE; African Power Conference and Awards in Spain; the annual Africa’s Most Respected CEOs Awards in Mauritius in 2022 and in Dubai, UAE, in 2021; the African Women Awards and Conference in Cairo, Egypt, in 2022; and the Africa Outstanding Professional Awards held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 4th November, 2022.
The Business Executive Ltd. also publishes The Business Executive magazine, the leading corporate-focused, general-purpose publication which covers comprehensively economy, business, finance, banking, investment, trade, transport, tourism, agriculture, education, health, global affairs, diplomacy, socio-economic developments, etc. in Ghana, the rest of Africa, and other regions of the world.
Published since 2011 with the tagline, ‘Custodians of the Corporate world,’ the hard copy of the magazine is circulated across the sub-region through the company’s collaboration with the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FEWACCI), while the digital version of the magazine can be accessed on its website, www.thebusinessexecutive.net
The glossy magazine is also circulated in South Africa, United Kingdom, Spain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ethiopia, Mauritius, United States and Canada.
The Business Executive Ltd. organizes various business forums to enable private enterprises and public institutions such as business regulators and facilitators to network and forge partnerships and alliances with each other.
The company is, among other things, involved in the organization of various conferences, workshops, and seminars, relating to domestic and international business networking, multilateral initiatives, public policy, and gender issues.
The company’s business groupings include Corporate Ghana Hall of Fame, for corporate Board Chairpersons; She Achiever, for award-winning female executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and public officials; and the African Chamber of Trade, for trade facilitation and promotion.
