The Managing Director of Bulk Energy Storage and Transportation Company Limited formerly BOST, Mr Edwin Alfred Provencal, has graduated from the University of Ghana with a Doctorate in Development Economics.
The graduation ceremony held at the University of Ghana on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, also saw several people awarded Doctorate Degrees.
Before this latest qualification, Edwin obtained an M.Phil. in Economics and an MBA in Management Information Systems (MIS) also from the University of Ghana, Legon, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi.
His other qualifications include a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management from ACCA, a Balanced Scorecard Certified Practitioner and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
He has also attended numerous certification programmes from Harvard, USA, and IMD, Switzerland.
Edwin Provencal lectured at the Central University Business School and Regent University, both in Ghana.
He is the founder and Managing Partner of Provencal & Associates, a management consulting company with a keen focus on improving shareholder value by building high-performing teams and developing leaders using various tools such as the Balanced Scorecard, Project Management and Coaching.
In August 2019, Edwin Provencal who was a Technical Advisor to John Peter Amewu, Minister for Energy, was appointed to replace the late George Mensah Okley as the Managing Director of BOST.
Under his watch as the Managing Director, the company crept out of the many years of losses, starting from 2013 to 2020, to make a profit of GHS163 million in 2021 and more than doubled the profit to GHS342 million in the 2022 financial year.
In his current role as the Managing Director, Dr Provencal and Bulk Energy Storage and Transportation Limited won a total of thirty-five awards in 2023.
The awards and special recognitions attained over the period came from the energy industry, public enterprise category and continental corporate excellence awards.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
