Patricia Obo-Nai is a

Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

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, the first Ghanaian to become Chief Executive Officer of

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. Her appointment on 19 February 2019 took effect on 1 April 2019. She is a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, (GHIE) and Vodafone's executive committee. In May 2021, she was named among the top 50 Most Influential Female Leaders in Africa within the corporate and business sphere by Leading Ladies Africa.

Education

Patricia Obo-Nai attended Bishop Bowers School for her basic education.For her O-Levels and A-Levels, she attended St Roses Senior High (Akwatia) and the

Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School , country = Ghana , region = Greater-Accra , location = Legon , coordinates = , type = Public high school , religious_affiliation = Presbyterian Church ...

respectively. She continued at the

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a public University of Ghana that focuses on science and technology. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is the public university established in the country, as well a ...

where she obtained a bachelor's degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

. She holds an Executive MBA and Executive Education degree from the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

and

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respectively. She also acquired an Executive Education degree from

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

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Career

Patricia Obo-Nai has worked in information technology and telecommunications since 1997. Before her appointment at

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, she worked with Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of Tigo for 14 years. In 2011, she moved on to join Vodafone as a Chief Technology Officer and a member of the Executive Committee. She was later promoted as the Director of Fixed Business and Customer Operations before she was appointed as CEO in 2019. She has served on a number of boards which includes the following: an advisory council member of the West African STEM Hub, advisory member of the Global Young Academy, Board member of the KNUST Foundation, a member of the Ghana Institute of Engineers and the Executive Women Network.

Awards and honours

For her work she has received the following awards: * 2012 - Best Female Technologist Award at the annual Ghana Telecom Awards in June *2017 - Distinguished Alumnus from the College of Engineering at

KNUST , mottoeng = The knot of wisdom is untied only by the wise , established = 1952;

* 2018 - Listed as one of the 100 most inspiring women leaders in

* 2019 - Won the Presec "Odade3" Honorary Torch Award *2020 - Ghana Women of Excellence Awards *2020 National Communications Awards Telecommunications Personality of the Year *2020 Sustainability and Social Impact (SSI) Awards STEM Leadership Award *2020 Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards (GITTA) Telecom CEO of the Year *2020 Young Professional Role Model in Women Executive Leadership Award *2021 Women Leadership Excellence Award at Ghana CEO’s Network Summit *2021 Africa’s Most Respected CEO Awards in the continent’s Telecommunications Industry

Personal life

Patricia is married with three (3) children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Obo-Nai, Patricia Living people University of Ghana alumni Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni Kellogg School of Management alumni INSEAD alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School alumni Alumni of St Roses Senior High school (Akwatia) Ghanaian women engineers