NANA AMA POKU

DEPUTY MANAGING-DIRECTOR CORPORATE RESOURCES

Result driven Executive with a unique blend of across division/department oversight in Development Finance, Policy Banking and Commercial Banking.

Nana Ama is a seasoned leader adept at implementing process improvement, workflow, and customer retention strategies towards corporate strategy execution at the C-Suite level.

A firm believer in private sector growth, she has extensive insight in end-to-end financing support for agriculture production, agro processing, import substitution, strategic importation and export trade as boosters of economic growth.

With a career spanning over two decades, she has a background in Risk Management,Banking Operations, SME and Corporate Banking, support for non-bank financial institutions as well as oversight of core support functions including Corporate Communications, Administration, Customer Experience and Product Development.

She has over the years had extensive corporate governance and structured training obtained from agencies the world over to augment hands-on experience.

Played a pivotal role in the operationalization of the Ghana Export-Import Bank (EXIM) as its pioneer Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Banking).

She is Member, Trade Finance Technical Working Group (Ghana) for the operationalisation of the Africa Free trade Continental Area (AfCFTA).

Nana Ama is Deputy Managing Director (Corporate Resources) at Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG).

She holds an Executive MBA (Entrepreneurial Management) from the University of Ghana Business School,Legon, an MA (Marketing Communications) from the University of Westminster Business School, UK and a BA (Social Sciences) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing - UK (MCIM).

She is the recipient of several awards and honours including Ghana Women of Excellence Award, Global Leadership Excellence Award, Outstanding Woman in Finance Award, and is the Global Chair (Exports and Credit) at the Women Economic Forum (WEF).