George David Allotey

• Accountable for investment strategy, portfolio management, investment, and portfolio risks, with assets under management (AuM) of circa USD 745 million across pension, discretional and non-discretionary assets.
• Accountable for deal sourcing, appraisal, and negotiation of new and existing investment opportunities across multiple asset classes.
• Accountable for talent acquisition and internal development of portfolio managers, portfolio, and research analysts.
• Lead role in the future of business and strategic positioning.
• Lead role in formulating and implementing responsible investing within the business.
• Deputize for Managing Director.

• Lead responsibility for re-establishment of Standard Bank's Asset Management business in Kenya.
• Developed overall business set-up roadmap on CVPs, regulatory requirements and operational systems. Key aspects of processes will serve as blue-print for asset management CVP within East African market.

Accountable for the Portfolio Management team with supervisory oversight on research and investment appraisal.

• Collaborated in developing strategies for growing the firm's AuM from Ghs292 million to Ghs5.2 billion through business development and investment growth.
• Represented the firm as technical lead in industry and association activities and seminars.

• Lead portfolio manager for the firm's long-term composites.
• Accountable for the financial and operational performance of assigned portfolios.
• Proactively initiated restructuring strategies in line with investment objectives.

Member of the equity brokerage business ensured profitability by providing sound equity investment advice to clients. With foreign portfolio investors as our focus, we interacted with their portfolio managers and other investors on analysis, outlook and trends of companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange in the context of the economy.

• Collaborated in the advising TOTAL Ghana (Total Energies) Bonus Issue and Republic Bank's acquisition of Union Bank's holdings in HFC Bank Ghana.
• Accountable for middle and back-office processes; this resulted in satisfactory rankings following regulatory surveillance checks.

• Responsibility covered curbing revenue leakages through reconciliation and settlement of electronic products, cards and suspense accounts.
• Mobile Money Project Champions member. Our responsibility was to roll out the MTN Mobile Money Product on the Stanbic Bank Ghana platform.
• Efficiently simplified some settlement processes, which took much more time and manual intervention.