Nana Owiredu Wadie I
Board Chairman
Nana Owiredu Wadie I, known in private life as Richard Kwasi Owiredu Wadie, is an entrepreneur, a businessman and a philanthropist. He is chairman of the board of directors of VPL Concrete Ltd.
Nana is the Nkosoɔhene of Kwahu-Nkwatia traditional area in the Eastern Region of Ghana. An astute businessman with over two decades experience in setting up and running business ventures, Nana Owiredu Wadie I has investment interests in varied sectors; including real estate development, production and supply logistics management, as well as general goods and merchandise.
He has over the years used his charity organization – The KABAKA Foundation – to extend development projects to various deprived parts of Ghana, thereby improving the lives of many vulnerable in society. He has also responded positively to requests by various public and quasi-public institutions for support with specific infrastructure.
Nana Owiredu Wadie I currently serves as chairman of the board of governors of St. Peter’s Senior High School at Kwahu-Nkwatia. He is married with three children.
Simon Komla Agbenyegah Ayivi
Managing & Executive Director
Simon K. A. Ayivi is co-founder and Managing & Executive Director of VPL Concrete Ltd. His key responsibility is to assemble and keep a team of industry experts and experienced personnel to build, and maintain, a world-class production and distribution logistics firm within the construction value chain. He is also responsible for fashioning the strategic direction of the business.
Simon is a wealth manager, an investor, and an entrepreneur with two decades experience in investment management and corporate governance. In 2011, he co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of Axis Pensions Group Ltd., a pension funds’ management firm headquartered in Accra, Ghana. While at Axis, he served as a regulator-licensed trustee for three large regulated pension schemes. He was also a member of the boards of directors of Axis Pensions Group Ltd., Axis Pension Administration Services Ltd., Axis Pension Trust Ltd. – all in Ghana – and Axis Pensions, Rwanda Ltd.
He had previously worked as Asset Manager with Databank Asset Management Services Ltd. His experience prior to Databank was in derivatives settlements with Morgan Stanley Inc. in Baltimore, MD, USA and later in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Mr. Ayivi serves as chairman of the board of directors of Apakan Securities Ltd., a securities brokerage firm in Accra. He is founder, chairman, and sole benefactor of Spero Foundation, an educational support charity based in Accra.
Simon holds a master’s degree in Economics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, NY, USA, and a bachelors’ degree in Land Economy from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He is married with two children.
