Roland Agambire
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Roland Agambire | |
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 Agambire CEO of Agams Holdings | |
| Born | 19 April 1976 (age 49) |
| Alma mater | GIMPA |
| Website | www |
Roland Agambire (born 19 April 1976) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur. He was the chief executive officer of Agams Holdings and the chairman and chief executive officer of the information and communications technology company Rlg Communications.[1]
He set up Roagam Links in March 2001, then as a mobile phone repair outlet, which expanded later to become the first indigenous information and communications technology manufacturing, assembling, and training firm in Ghana. The RLG Group is said to have a presence in China, Dubai, UAE, Angola, Nigeria, Kenya and the Gambia, South Africa, Ghana, and Rwanda.[2]
Agambire was born in Sirigu in northern Ghana. He trained as a teacher and later studied at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.[1]
Career
Rlg Communications
Rlg Communications employs about 500 permanent staff, 1,000 others and has created jobs for over 30,000 youth [3] over the last decade through collaboration with the various key stakeholders and government.[4] His company's training subsidiary, the Rlg Institute of Technology implements similar schemes in Nigeria and the Gambia, working with the respective governments.[5]
AGAMS Holdings Limited
Agambire is also the executive chairman of AGAMS Holdings Limited[6] and is responsible for the overall strategic planning and management of the eleven integrated companies making up the Holdings. He has won several local and international recognitions and awards for innovation, entrepreneurship, commitment to growth and, philanthropy.[citation needed]
In September 2012, he became the youngest person to be awarded the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Marketing Man of the Year for 2011.[1] One of his products, a Rlg phone, was also adjudged product of the year 2011.
In the 2012 rankings of the Ghana Club 100,[7] Agambire's Rlg was ranked the second-best company in Ghana by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre. The company was also adjudged the Fastest Growing Company in Ghana, the Leader in Ghana's ICT Sector, and the Best Entrant to the Club 100. The South Africa-based African Leadership Network named Roland among 12 finalists in the 2012 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship same as Ernst and Young West Africa who named him among the Finalists in the 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. In January 2013, the Pan African Television Network, E-TV voted him the Most Influential Ghanaian for the year 2012 in a poll it conducted among its viewers,[8] and later emerged as the Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 in a competition organized by the Entrepreneur Foundation of Ghana. He won Ghana's Leading Businessman of the Year 2013 at City People Awards for Excellence.[9]