{"id":1192636,"date":"2022-08-28T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/28\/brief-history-of-dr-kofi-koduah-sarpong-ex-chief-executive-officer-of-gnpc\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T07:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:27:36","slug":"brief-history-of-dr-kofi-koduah-sarpong-ex-chief-executive-officer-of-gnpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/28\/brief-history-of-dr-kofi-koduah-sarpong-ex-chief-executive-officer-of-gnpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief History of Dr. Kofi Koduah Sarpong Ex-Chief Executive Officer of GNPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8a4e7b640c9d44a7b727462c43e60001\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The renowned Business Executive and Consultant is a holder of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Ghana Business School. Dr. Sarpong is also a holder of Master of Accountancy and PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Glasgow and University of Warwick respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the religious arena, he obtained a Master of Arts in Ministry from the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3dd887afa7364862b8da1e140e2dc231\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Professionally, Dr. Sarpong is a holder of Chartered Accountancy and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK; and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG). <\/p>\n<p>The Kumasi Asante Kotoko Executive Chairman initially served as the Deputy Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery, and further rose to become the &#8216;s Managing Director in 2007, under the leadership of John Agyekum Kufuor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He further served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Global Haulage Group, and then the Board Chairman of Imperial General Assurance Limited and The Royal Bank, Ghana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3a8d2922371245388d749f7d476857d5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And in January 2022, he received his appointment as the Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Dr. Kofi Koduah Sarpong was serving was the Acting Chief Executive Officer of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the experienced Chartered Accountant started his career journey as an Accountant (Assistant) at the Meat Marketing Board in 1979.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A year later, he received an appointment to work as the Deputy Chief Accountant at Ghana Food Distribution Corporation. K.K Sarpong was subsequently promoted to become the Corporation&#8217;s Chief Accountant, and finally its Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Among the scholarships and awards he has received so far include:<\/p>\n<p>World Bank Scholarship (1990-1991), Commonwealth Scholarship (1987-1990), Glasgow Graduate Scholarship (1990) and the Amegashie Prize in Accounting (UGBS, 1978).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Public Service Award by the Africa Public Sector Conference &#038; Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>K.K Sarpong has also been honoured with Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Science by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and University of Mines, Tarkwa respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Ghana&#8217;sthirdeye (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGhana<br \/>\nJohn Agyekum Kufuor.<br \/>\nKofi Koduah Sarpong<br \/>\nThe Global Haulage<br \/>\nTrinity Theological Seminary<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned Business Executive and Consultant is a holder of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Ghana Business School. Dr. Sarpong is also a holder of Master of Accountancy and PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Glasgow and University of Warwick respectively.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24569,569,1697,2550,20922,1088,2413,3654],"class_list":["post-1192636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-exchief","tag-executive","tag-gnpc","tag-history","tag-koduah","tag-kofi","tag-officer","tag-sarpong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}