Eric Seddy Kutortse
Renowned Ghanaian businessman, Eric Seddy Kutortse, was Tuesday honoured with an international recognition at an award ceremony dubbed ‘Socrates Award’.
The award ceremony was a round-off event for the 2017 edition of Oxford Summit of Leaders, an interactive platform for international cooperation held in the United Kingdom.
Since 2000, the summit has been held at significant locations throughout the world’s scientific community. During these years, it has been attended by more than 6,000 delegates from 56 countries.
Kutorse, who is the chief executive of Ghana’s First Sky Group, delivered a powerful speech at the summit in which he made a compelling case for foreign investors to stream into Ghana to form partnerships with indigenous Ghanaian business leaders.
Opening the summit in the city of Oxford in Britain, Eric Seddy Kutortse, an indigenous Ghanaian entrepreneur who has won many local and international awards, used his keynote speech to project Ghana as a-must-visit business and investment destination that the world should wholeheartedly embrace through partnerships with Ghanaian entrepreneurs.
As a sign that he believes in robust partnerships with credible foreign investors, Mr Kutortse said on Tuesday that he has signed an MoU with European investors to help First Sky Cocoa Processing, a new subsidiary of the First Sky Group, to establish a truly modern cocoa processing factory in the Western Region of Ghana. He did not give details.
He said Ghana continues to develop the right legal and institutional frameworks necessary for businesses to emerge, grow and flourish exponentially in ways that positively impact host communities and populations.
“It is on this note that I invite business leaders and investors gathered here to visit Ghana to take full advantage of the endless business opportunities emerging, by entering into mutually rewarding partnerships with local business owners and investors,” he told audience at the packed event at the Oxford Town Hall.