Kenneth Ofori-Atta

Ken Ofori-Atta is the Chairman of Databank and its Co-founder. He was the Executive Chairman from 1990 until his retirement on February 14, 2012. Databank has been awarded numerous professional, social and leadership awards during his incumbency including being awarded the 2007 Most Respected Company in Ghana. Ken is a director of two publicly listed companies – Enterprise Group Ltd and Trust Bank Ltd of The Gambia of which he is Chairman. He is a Director at the International Bank of Liberia and is also a Board Member of the Acumen Fund, a global Private Equity Social Investment Fund in New York and Chairman of AAF SME Fund LLC, a US$ 30m private equity for SME agribusiness in Africa with offices in Accra, Douala and Johannesburg. Ken has keen interest in education. He is on the Boards of New York University in Ghana, Central University College, University College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies. He is also Chairman of the College of Agriculture and Consumer Science of the University of Ghana; and a member of the President’s Council on International Activities of Yale University. Prior to co-founding Databank, Ken worked at Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers on Wall Street in New York. Ken went to Achimota School in Accra, Ghana; he has a BA in Economics from Columbia University in New York and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Ken was honoured as a Donaldson Fellow at Yale University in 2010 and a John Jay Fellow at Columbia University in 2011. He was twice honoured by PWC Ghana as one of the Most Respected CEOs in Ghana. He is married to Dr. Angela Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta (a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Ghana Medical School). They are practicing Christians and have three children. They live in Accra. Ken is the co-founder of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a 2000 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.