MRS. ELIZABETH VILLARS

Mrs. Villars is the Founder and Board Chairman of Camelot Ghana Limited. She has worked as a Systems Consultant with West African Data Services Bureau (WADSB). She is the past president of the Association of Ghana Industries as well as a past president of the Governing Council of the Private Enterprise Foundation. She is currently the Chairman of the Steering Committee of Business Support Advocacy Challenge Fund (BUSAC).

She was also a member of the Ghana Investment Advisory Council (GIAC) which was an advisory board formed to advise Ex-President John Agyekum Kuffour of the Republic of Ghana on foreign direct investment strategies for Ghana. In 2008 Mrs Elizabeth Joyce Villars was awarded the Order of the Volta Companion for her outstanding service under Ex-President J. A Kuffour, 2nd president of the Fourth Republic.

JOHN COLIN VILLARS

Mr. John Colin Villars has over 25 years corporate experience that cuts across investment banking, manufacturing and industrial operations, finance and more recently law.

John started his career working as an Analyst in Corporate Finance with Strategic African Securities (SAS) Limited, Accra. This was during the days of Divestiture and Privatization, after the establishment of Ghana Stock Exchange. Under excellent training he was involved in various IPOs including that of Ghana Commercial Bank in 1996. John ended his formal career in corporate finance advisory when he saw an opportunity in seeing to the successful listing of his family security printing business – Camelot –on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) in 1999, in the first ever fullyunderwritten IPO. On the other side of the negotiating table, he joined the Camelot Group and set up a Business Development team to expand the company’s terrain.

Having successfully expanded the company’s footprint across nine (9) African countries, he established Camelot Security Solutions Limited (CSSL) in Nigeria in 2003, where he served as the CEO until 2008. Over the period, CSSL provided a diverse array of document security products, software, verification and validation systems, to governments, top-tier institutions, banks and multinational companies.

Mr. Villars is presently the Managing Director of Camelot Ghana PLC, and is managing the company’s diversification project into flexographic and label printing.

With a wealth of Corporate Governance and Business Development experience, John has sat on various boards and currently sits on the boards of SEM Capital Limited (www.semcapitaladvisors.com), EVC Africa (www.evcafrica.com),  Quality Life Assurance Company Limited (www.qlac.com.gh) and GCB Bank (www.gcbbank.com.gh) in Ghana.

Mr. Villars holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Admin (Finance & Accounting) from The American University in London (Richmond), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Industrial Financial Management from the Bergische Universitat Gesamhochschule (BUGH) in Wuppertal, Germany. John has recently pursued a new professional development path in law. He earned a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of London, and completed the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and a Master of Science in Law, Business & Management from the University of Law, Guildford, UK. Following his successful completion of the Post Call Law Course at the Ghana School of Law, John has recently been called to the Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He is a member of the Ghana Bar Association.

John is an avid reader, sportsman and entrepreneur.

MRS. CAROLINE ANDAH

Caroline Andah is a consultant who has worked for over 30 years in Ghana’s financial sector. She started her career at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning as an Economic Officer. She then moved to the private sector, worked at New World Investment Services as the Head of Brokerage, Research and General Operations, worked for several years at CDH, in various capacities including, Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Brokerage and Asset Management and was also the General Manager of HFC Investment Services responsible for both investment services and real estate development until she set up her own consulting firm, Hadna Trust Ltd, providing financial intermediation services including originating, structuring and arranging short and medium term facilities for small and medium scale enterprises.

Caroline holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Houston and a BA in Economics with Statistics from the University of Ghana.

She has served on several boards including the Council of the Ghana Stock Exchange. Currently, in addition to Camelot Ghana Ltd.’s Board, she serves on the Boards of Cirrus Oil Services Limited, and Keda Development Ltd.

PROF. HENRY MENSAH BROWN

Dr. Henry Mensah Brown is currently a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Food Process Engineering in University of Ghana. He has an earned PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine in London and an MBA in Finance from the University of Ghana. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Applied Science & Technology of the University of Ghana. He was a Principal Consultant for Deloitte & Touche (West Africa) Limited and Director, Corporate Finance & Equity Research of Gold Coast Securities Limited. He was also the General Manager for the Domod Aluminium Company Limited. He is a member of the Technical Committee (TC22) for Oil and Gas Standards in Ghana and a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE).

MRS RACHEL BADDOO

Mrs Rachel Baddoo attended the University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law. She is a lawyer by profession with considerable experience in both Public and Private sectors including 5 years at the Attorney-General’s office and 14 years at Merchant Bank (Ghana) Limited (now Universal Merchant Bank).

At Merchant Bank she was the Head of the Legal Department for 13 years and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Bank for 10 years and for several years was Secretary to the Bank’s subsidiary companies (Stockbrokers, Finance and Leasing and Investment Holdings). This gave her a wealth of experience with Investment, Capital Markets, Merger and Acquisitions, Due Diligence and related issues. Mrs Baddoo left Merchant Bank at the grade of General Manager, by which time as part of the Executive team, she had become experienced in handling and successfully managing complex and delicate issues.

Mrs Baddoo has attended numerous courses – related to legal, financial, corporate governance, managerial and leadership skills and has become knowledgeable not only as a lawyer in the financial world but as a competent manager.

Currently she is in private legal practice and is an affiliate of MercLaw Associates, a law firm situated at the Roman Ridge Arcade, Accra. She is also a Notary Public and has set up R.B. Consult, a Company Secretarial and Advisory business.

Mrs Baddoo is currently a Board member of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology Mission and Culture, and St. Martin de Porres School, and immediate past Board Chairman of International Needs (Ghana), a Christian development oriented NGO.

Mrs Baddoo is married with three children and two grandchildren.