CHAIRMAN PROFILE
Obed Kweku Danquah is the Executive Chairman of Express Group of Companies, the Managing Director of Morgan Farms and Morgan Brick and Tile and the Founder of the Association of Certified Entrepreneurs.
Mr. Danquah was born on 29th August, 1960 to Madam Yaa Korkor and Mr Kwame Danquah in a little village called Agona Nyarkrom in the Central Region of Ghana.
At a very tender age, he left the bosom of his parents to seek greener pastures in Nigeria and the United Kingdom respectively. Despite the intense hardships and abject poverty that he suffered during his growing up stages, Mr. Danquah did not give room for such set backs to relent his efforts to make it in life, instead, he aspired for greater heights. Whiles abroad, his poor background served as a constant reminder thereby engineering him to attach excessive hard work and enormous seriousness to everything he did.
His hardworking nature, intelligence and immense humility paved way for him in several ways. He grew from being a mere accounts clerk in Ibadan – Nigeria, to becoming the first Black African to own a butchering shop in the neigbourhood of Hackney, London, United Kingdom.
This was as a result of having first gone through a variety of job experiences and sectors which ranges from being a mini cab driver to operating a cleaning agency, operating a grocery shop and then entering into the estate business of buying and selling properties.
At Hackney, where he resided in London as the only black African operating a small business in the community, the news of his reputation and achievement traveled along the length and breadth of the vicinity winning him a documentary production of his butchering shop on three renowned televisions stations.
Although all his efforts and attention was geared to running businesses and wealth creation, he still furthered his education and enrolled in the London Business School of Higher Education at Tooting Broadway and undertook the Association of Business Executives making him a full member, and also pursued a postgraduate diploma in Data Processing with the Institute of Data Processing Management .
Upon completion, he attempted an ACCA course at Emil Wolf College of Accountancy but did not complete.
As competition became keener and keener and the new business idea of funds transfer emerged, he took the opportunity to formally visit Ghana to establish the funds transfer business and also added an agriculture (animal rearing) business to it. Morgan Farms as it is called employing over sixty (60) personnel making him one of the biggest private employer in the Central Region of Ghana.
Having settled in Ghana , he pursued an Executive MBA course at GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) in 2002 where he successfully graduated
Mr. Obed Danquah is blessed with an elegant wife and four beautiful children.
His contribution and support to the under-privileged and deprived individuals (both young and old) has won him varied admirations from many individuals and groups of people.
His kindness and support is not limited to only his relatives but to any underprivileged individual he comes into contact with every now and then.
He believes Africa needs to become economically self-reliant through a change of mindset and the creation of business and wealth.
He envisages that one day, his ultimate goal of acquiring more practical knowledge in the field of business so that he can share all these experiences with colleagues on the African continent so that they can sustain their business for longer time and become profitable in their various businesses.
At his spare times, he lectures at his newly established Institution (A.C.E) and also gives talks at seminars and conferences on developmental and entrepreneurial issues.
He believes that his accomplishments have been made possible due to the mentorship of his late mother who encouraged and inspired him at an early age to acquire good education and aspire for greater heights.
Indeed, a journey of a thousand mile definitely must begin with a step!
Mr. Danquah never counts himself as successful yet; rather he believes that success is a continuous process and therefore unending in one's life time. For until society benefits enormously from one's success, it is meaningless in its entirety.
