 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies .(February 2020) |
Kevin Okyere is a Ghanaian entrepreneur in the oil industry. He serves as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Springfield Energy- a billion-dollar oil company. [1] The company was founded in 2008. [2]
He was born in 1980 to an affluent Ashanti family. Even though he came from a rich family, he sold iced water to football supporters at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. He attended Opoku Ware Senior High School, later he left for the USA for further studies in Accounting at the George Mason University in Virginia. [3]
Kevin's company, Springfield, was given the block, known as West Cape Three Points Block 2, by Ghana’s government in 2016 after it was relinquished by Kosmos. [4] Also, the company is the leader in exporting refined products to land-lock neighbouring countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso and Nigerian crude. [5] At the 2019 Emy Africa Awards, he was awarded as "Man of the Year" for the Oil and Gas category. [6]
Black billionaires are individuals who are of predominantly African ancestry with a net worth of at least US$1 billion.
Rostam Abdulrasul Azizi is a self-made Tanzanian billionaire, business magnate, economist and former politician. In 2013, according to Forbes Magazine he was the first Tanzanian dollar billionaire with a net worth of over 1 billion dollars, in 2023 he had amassed a net worth of 8.2 billion dollars. and according to Henley & Partners Africa wealth report 2022, and was only dollar billionaire in East Africa.
Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and industrialist. He is best known as the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Dangote Group, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $15.3 billion in May 2024, making him the richest person in Africa, the world's richest black person, and the world's 132nd richest person overall.
The Dangote Group is a Nigerian multinational industrial conglomerate, founded by Aliko Dangote. It is the largest conglomerate in West Africa and one of the largest on the African continent. The group employs more than 30,000 people, generating revenue in excess of US$4.1 billion in 2017.
Christopher John Kirubi, born in Murang'a County, was a Kenyan businessman, entrepreneur, and industrialist. He was a director at Centum Investment Company, a business conglomerate, of which he was the largest individual shareholder.
Chude Jideonwo is a Nigerian TV host, filmmaker and media entrepreneur.
Ashish J. Thakkar is a East African Entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mara Group and Mara Foundation and also a co-founder of Atlas Mara Limited. Thakkar was born in the United Kingdom, but he moved to East Africa as a teenager before founding Mara Group, a Pan-African conglomerate, at the age of 15. Mara Group's operations and investments span 22 African countries. He is the author of The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa's Economic Miracle.
Chief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the fifth richest person in Africa according to Forbes.. His company Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin. He owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust Bank and the oil exploration firm Conoil.
Kola Aluko is a Nigerian businessman with interests in African infrastructure development and aviation. Formerly based in Nigeria, Aluko was the Co-Chief Officer and an executive director of Atlantic Energy, an indigenous, private upstream oil and gas company, focused on independent exploration and production in Nigeria.
Samuel Nana Kwesi Okyere Jan Tuiniboa Coduia Dalco is a Ghanaian television personality active in South Korea and Ghana.
Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist. As of 2024, he is the second richest man in Nigeria. His late father, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu, was one of Nigeria's foremost industrialists in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdul Samad is the founder and chairman of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate concentrating on manufacturing, infrastructure and agriculture and producing a revenue in excess of $2.5 billion. He is also the chairman of the Nigerian Bank of Industry (BOI).
Jim James Ovia is a Nigerian businessman and author. He is known as the founder of Zenith Bank in 1990, which is now the country's most profitable bank.
Kofi Amoa-Abban is a Ghanaian Oil and Gas entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Rigworld Group, an oil services business with operations across West Africa.
Nthabiseng Mosia is a South African-Ghanaian entrepreneur and co-founder of the Sierra Leone–based solar energy company Easy Solar.
Aisha Ayensu is a Ghanaian award-winning fashion designer who is known to have designed outfits and stage costumes for Beyonce, Genevieve Nnaji, Jackie Appiah and Sandra "Alexandrina" Don-Arthur. She is the founder and Creative Director of Christie Brown, a Ghanaian fashion house. She has been interviewed by Folu Storms and for the BBC World Service's radio programme In the Studio and was listed as one of Forbes' Most Promising Entrepreneurs in 2016.
Daniel Okyere Donkor popularly known with his stage name Mizter Okyere is a Ghanaian saxophonist and producer. In 2019, he was awarded the Best Instrumentalist of the Year at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
Billions at play: The Future of African Energyand Doing Deals is a book by Nj Ayuk, an attorney and entrepreneur. The book discuses the nature of African oil and gas where it highlighted the present situations and ways to developing and enhancing energy resources in African countries, expanding relationship and negotiation to other developed countries in the world. The book foreword was written by OPEC Secretary-General, H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo.
Nj Ayuk is a Cameroonian attorney, author, and businessman.
Kofi Genfi is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and business executive. He is the co-founder of both Mazzuma and Utopia Technologies: two companies in the digital commerce space for emerging markets. He is the Director of Business Strategy for Mazzuma.