Ishmael Yamson

Chairman

Santosh Pillai

Managing Director

Pierre Billon

Director

Nenenyo Mate-Kole

Non-Executive Director

Samuel Avaala Awonnea

Executive Director, General Manager

Samuel Avaala Awonnea is a Ghanaian and was born in 1964. He holds a BSc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from the KNUST (1990), Diploma in Financial Management (ACCA, UK) and an Executive MBA (CEMBA ? KNUST). He has had a wide-ranging career starting from 1990 as a National Service Person at the Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC) of the KNUST after which he joined BOPP, then a subsidiary of Unilever, as a Management Trainee. Positions he has held in BOPP over the period include: Maintenance Engineer, Divisional Manager (Estate), Factory Manager, Estate Manager, and now the General Manager. As the team leader, he successfully led the company to achieve RSPO certification, making BOPP the first to achieve this certification in Ghana and the second in Africa. He is currently the chairman of the Ghana National Interpretation Working Group (GNIWG) Taskforce of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and currently, the incumbent president of the Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana (OPDAG) He is a certified Instructor of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) for TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MANUFACTURING (TPM) ? a continuous improvement and waste elimination philosophy in manufacturing industries.

Mr. Benjamin Appiah-Manuh

Executive Director, effective November 8, 2019.

Mr. Viganeswaran Ponnudurai

Director, effective August 10, 2020

Esine Okudzeto

Independent Non- Executive Director

Esine is the Deputy Managing Partner at Sam Okudzeto & Associates and she heads the firm’s Corporate/Commercial law group. Her focus is on Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Oil and Gas law, Corporate law, Commercial law, Intellectual property and Arbitration. Esine has performed due diligence for several international clients advising her clients on mergers and acquisitions and the formation of Joint Ventures in Ghana. Esine played a leading role in a Fortune 500 company’s acquisition of Unilever Plc’s oil palm business in Ghana. Esine was also the lead transactional advisor for the creation of a joint venture that set up a cargo hub, warehouse and handling services at the Kotoka International Airport. In the aforementioned transactions, Esine was instrumental in the incorporation of companies, the negotiation and drafting of licensing agreements, the drafting of shareholders agreements, the drafting of leases and company regulations, the registration of trademarks, the registration of leases, as well as providing legal advice on tax and labor issues. She has represented a number of clients before arbitration tribunals. Esine is a board member of Sena Chartered Secretaries Ltd, the firm’s sister company that specializes in company secretarial and investment consultancy. Esine serves as a corporate secretary for various clients, where she attends board meetings and advises companies on their corporate responsibilities and powers. She also helps corporations with filing relevant documents in compliance with the Company’s Act of Ghana. Esine is also a Board member of the Ghana Oil Club, Conship and she teaches as an adjunct lecturer in Advocacy and Legal Ethics at the Ghana School of Law.