#BeAnICON: Roland Agambire - ALOUD AFRICA

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Thursday 14 April 2016

#BeAnICON: Roland Agambire



Roland Agambire is a Ghanaian entrepreneur best known as CEO of Agams Holdings and Chairman and CEO of the ICT company Rlg Communications.

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 (GIMPA).

He set up Roagam Links in March 2001, then as a mobile phone repair outlet which expanded later to become the first indigenous ICT manufacturing, assembling and training firm in Ghana, Rlg Communications Limited now Rlg Communications (Ghana) Limited, a member of the Rlg Group of Companies Limited (Rlg Group). The Rlg Group currently has presence in China, Dubai, UAE, Angola, Nigeria, Kenya and the Gambia, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda.

Agambire is also the executive chairman of the AGAMS Holdings Limited 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.

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. One of his products, a Rlg phone, was also adjudged product of the year 2011.

In the 2012 rankings of the Ghana Club 100, 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 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, and later emerged as the Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 in a competition organised by the Entrepreneur Foundation of Ghana.

Ref.: Wikipedia & alloexpat.com

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