Kwabena Owusu-Ampofo

Kwabena Owusu-Ampofo is Managing Director of Kestermoor Energy Services Limited. He has run the company since 2014 and is responsible for its results, its client relationships and the way its teams deliver across West, Central and East Africa.

Kwabena trained as a mechanical engineer at KNUST in Kumasi and began his career commissioning gas and water pipelines in Ghana. He later managed field services contracts for an international operator and a regional drilling contractor, where he learned that a safe, well-planned job is nearly always a profitable one.

He leads from the Accra operations headquarters and spends a large part of each month at the Takoradi, Luanda, Pemba and Mombasa bases. He chairs the executive committee and signs off every major bid personally.