Career
Quartey-Papafio started Reroy Cables with her husband in 1992 after they failed to acquire suitable cables for the construction of their house, [5] [6] [7] becoming the first female CEO of a cable manufacturing firm in ECOWAS. [8] [9] In 2014, she was named Marketing Woman of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG). In the same year, during the maiden edition of the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah African Genius Award, she won the entrepreneurship category. [8] In December 2023, the President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo presented her with the Legacy and GADIA State award for her leadership in business and entreprenuership spunning over 27 years. [10] [11]
She has been able to transform to the Reroy Group of Companies consisting of Reroy Cables the first company they formed which manufactures power cables and conductors, Reroy Power manufacturers, supplier and installers of power distribution equipments, Reroy Energy construction and operation of power and solar plants and Reroy Metals manufacturers of aluminium wire rods. [12]
She is currently the sector Chairperson of Electricals and Electronics Committee of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI). [13]
She was featured by the CNN Marketplace Africa for being the "Queen of Cables in Ghana. [14] In 2017, Quartey-Papafio was named in a prosecution related to the collapse of now defunct Capital Bank. After four years of legal proceedings, the Accra High Court, acquitted and discharged her in July 2021, ruling that the prosecution had failed to establish a prima facie case. The court emphasized that she had acted without criminal intent, and she was cleared of all charges. [15] [16]
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