Kwame Awuah-Darko was born on January 4,1969 and is a Ghanaian politician, entrepreneur and a banker.
25 Facts About Kwame Awuah-Darko
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Kwame Awuah-Darko is the 3rd son of the late Nana Awuah-Darko Ampem I, who reigned as the Nkosuohene of Asante Juaben traditional area in the Ashanti Region of Ghana from June 1985 till his demise on November 25,2005.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko was born in Accra on January 4,1969.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko is a native of the Ashanti kingdom and the Akyem Abuakwa State.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko is the third son of Nana Awuah-Darko Ampem I, the Nkosuohene of Asante Juaben traditional area in the Ashanti Region.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko started his primary education at Christ the King International School, in Cantonments in Accra, where he sat for his common entrance examinations in June 1981 and gained admission to St Peters School at Nkwatia, Kwahu, in the Eastern Region of Ghana in September 1981.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko the proceeded to the Achimota Secondary School Achimota School for his sixth form education, which he completed in June 1988.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko gained admission to the Social Sciences Faculty of the then University of Science and Technology in 1989.
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In 1998 Kwame Awuah-Darko gained admission to then Henley Management College, Henley Business School, Greenlands, Henley on Thames United Kingdom and graduated with a DBA in 1999.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko is married to Nana Yaa Oteng and he has three sons.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko is a co-founder of the Roman Ridge School in Accra, Ghana and has served on the board of directors since its inception in 2002 till date.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko served as board member of State Insurance Company Limited as well as board chairman of the SIC Financial Services Limited respectively from 2009 to 2012.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko contributed to the establishment Commercial Bank, a financial institution in Ghana.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko currently serves on the board of the Roman Ridge School which he co-founded.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko managed Matrix Holdings concurrently with Marine and General Insurance Brokers.
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In 2012, Kwame Awuah-Darko was elected to run for parliament as the candidate representing the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency under the National Democratic Congress.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko established a petroleum-trading department within the company, trading mainly petroleum products such as Gasoline, Gasoil, LPG and Crude Oil.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko instituted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Program and with his team managed to secure credit lines to import petroleum products from inception without any financial contribution from central Government.
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On given the additional mandate of heading the Tema Oil Refinery, Kwame Awuah-Darko assisted in the revival of the Tema Oil Refinery after years of non-operability via BOST and imported up to 9 million barrels of crude oil stocks out of which 7 million barrels was refined by TOR during his tenure as CEO and leaving 2 million barrels in tank on his exit from TOR.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko initiated and purchased the first indigenous crude the refinery produced from Ghana's TEN fields.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko ended his tenure at TOR in January 2017 leaving 205,279 metric tons of Petrol and Diesel as stock in-tank plus crude oil stock from then TEN fields.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko implemented an organizational restructuring exercise at BOST to introduce efficiency and motivation among working staff.
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Kwame Awuah-Darko commissioned a twin 10-storey office complex in Accra to curb the consistent overpriced office rent charges.
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On leaving both BOST and TOR on January 6,2017, Kwame Awuah-Darko handed over strategic projects he initiated but were uncompleted, namely;.
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In 2017 Kwame Awuah-Darko was awarded the Oil and Gas Leadership Awards 2017 in recognition of his exemplary and flawless track record as head of Ghana's Tema Oil Refinery and Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company.