Alex Kwasi Awuah - Managing Director

Managing Director

Alex Kwasi Awuah was appointed Managing Director of ARB Apex Bank Plc on January 1, 2022. Prior to becoming substantive Managing Director, he served as Acting Managing Director of the Bank from July 2021 to December 2021.

He is a Chartered Banker and began his banking career in 1996. His career experience in banking covers central banking, universal banking and rural banking.

Alex had a spell at the then Internal Revenue Service (now Ghana Revenue Authority) as District Statistician in charge of Wenchi and Goaso Tax Districts before joining the Bank of Ghana  the same year (1996). Whilst at the Central Bank, he worked at the Rural Finance Inspection Department and Banking Supervision Department as a Bank Examiner until March 2005 when he left the Bank as an Assistant Manager.

He joined the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) in April 2005 and worked in various capacities, first as an Auditor in the Internal Audit and Assurance Department, a Manager in the Research and Planning Department and the Strategic Policy Coordinating Unit. He headed the Budgets, Planning and Strategy Unit of the Finance and Planning Department and left the Bank in October 2013.

Alex moved to the ARB Apex Bank Plc in November 2013 as the Head of the Internal Control Department, responsible for the audit of departments and branches of the Bank. He was also in-charge of the inspection of the Rural and Community Banks in Ghana as a complementary service to the regulatory role of the Bank of Ghana. He was elevated to the position of Deputy Managing Director in June 2015 and later served as Acting Managing Director of the Bank from November 2016 to May 2017.

Awuah holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (Finance option), and a Bachelor of Science in Administration (Banking and Finance option) both from the University of Ghana Business School.

He qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB), Ghana in 2003. He also passed the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK examinations up to the professional level.

Alex is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana and serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute, having previously served as a Council Member.  He is also a former member of the Boards of Konrad Adenauer Memorial Credit Union (KAMCCU) at the Credit Unions Head Office, Accra and Suma Rural Bank, Suma Ahenkro. He is a former Director of Finance of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Ascension Congregation, North Legon.