Dr Wisdom Dogbey appointed Managing Director of Cocoa Marketing Company

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Dr Wisdom Kofi Dogbey to service arsenic the caller Managing Director of Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), the subsidiary of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) liable for the selling and merchantability of Ghana’s cocoa some locally and internationally.

Dr Dogbey brings to the presumption implicit 20 years of planetary enactment acquisition successful firm finance, planetary banking, concern management, and infrastructure development.

His assignment signals a strategical determination aimed astatine strengthening Ghana’s cocoa selling operations, deepening worth addition, and enhancing the country’s competitiveness connected the planetary cocoa market.

Prior to this appointment, Dr Dogbey held respective elder roles successful top-tier fiscal institutions successful the United States, including Truist Bank, wherever helium served arsenic Consumer and Small Business Cards CFO, and American Express successful New York, wherever helium was Director of Funding and Investments.

In that role, helium managed implicit $120 cardinal successful commercialized worth and led superior marketplace backing efforts that secured $4 cardinal quarterly. He besides generated $220 cardinal successful further gross by optimising planetary speech complaint programs.

His vocation includes impactful enactment positions astatine Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank, wherever helium managed multibillion-dollar budgets, streamlined fiscal operations, and spearheaded initiatives that delivered important outgo savings and operational efficiencies crossed backstage banking, user banking, wholesale banking, and exertion operations.

Dr Dogbey began his nonrecreational travel successful Ghana, contributing to fiscal audits astatine the Volta River Authority and conducting feasibility studies for cardinal infrastructure and cultivation projects astatine Deloitte.

His long-standing committedness to economical improvement and public-private partnerships has remained a changeless diagnostic of his career, some successful Ghana and abroad.

Academically, Dr Dogbey holds a Doctor of Humanities from Good News International University, a Doctor successful Ministry (Ministerial Leadership) from BMI University, an MBA successful Finance from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Bachelor of Science successful Banking and Finance from the University of Ghana.

He has besides pursued enforcement acquisition astatine Harvard Business School, earning certifications successful Leadership and Generative AI for Business Leaders.

Beyond his firm achievements, Dr Dogbey is simply a passionate advocator for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and has served arsenic a regular economical argumentation pundit connected Ghanaian media platforms.

He is the laminitis of Heaven’s Relief, a U.S.-based nonprofit organisation focused connected poorness simplification and skills improvement initiatives successful Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.

His assignment comes astatine a important clip for Ghana’s cocoa assemblage arsenic it navigates planetary terms volatility, clime challenges, and the request to amended husbandman livelihoods.

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