Hon. Ashok Mohinani
Executive Director - HCCGH
Business Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy
40+ Years
Ashok Ramchand Mohinani is a seasoned Executive Director of the Mohinani Group Ghana with over 50 years of family business legacy, driving expansion across manufacturing, trade, and hospitality sectors in Africa.
He is a respected business leader and Honorary Consul of Uruguay in Ghana, with extensive experience in corporate leadership, board governance, and regional business development.
Biography
Hon Consul of Uruguay in Ghana
Ashok Ramchand Mohinani currently holds the position of the Executive Director of the Mohinani Group (Ghana), a second-generation family business with over 50 years of experience in multi-sector operations in various industries across the African continent. The company started with the manufacturing of packaging and plastics as its core business, before expanding into trade and distribution of chemicals, polymers, consumer durables and more recently into restaurants & hospitality. Â
Ashok was born in Accra and had his primary education at the Ghana International School (GIS) before proceeding to the United Kingdom for his secondary and tertiary education at St. Lawrence College and London School of Accountancy respectively. He holds a qualification in ACCA Accountancy.Â
Upon his return to Ghana, Ashok took up key roles in the manufacturing sector of the business, from 1984 to 1987 after which he became the Deputy Managing Director of the Group. In 1991, he moved to Nigeria as Managing Director of Somotex Nigeria.
As Executive Director and Country Head for the Group in Ghana, he has led the expansion of the Group’s manufacturing and trading operations in the country, which includes; Poly Products, Poly Sacks, Poly Tanks, Poly Kraft, Somotex Ghana Ltd, Electromart, Masco Foods Ltd. (KFC), Alliance Estates Ltd and Somoco Ghana Ltd.Â
Ashok’s other activities outside his work are as follows:
- Serves as a Non-Executive Board Member of Stanbic Bank,Â
- Founder and member of Ghana Chapter of Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO),Â
- Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative (ALIWA) – The Aspen Institute,
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Postgraduate Endowment Fund of the College of Health Sciences,Â
- Regional Adviser to Acumen Fund andÂ
- A member of the Economic Advisor Committee of AGI (Association of Ghana Industries). Â
Previously, he served as the president and committee member of the Indian Association of Ghana. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Business Council for Africa.
In 2018, the Oriental Republic of Uruguay assigned him the position of Honorary Consul in Ghana.
Education
1979 – 1983
Master of Political Science
Columbia University, CL
1984 – 1987
UG Degree of Politics
University of Chicago School
1992 – 2004
Diplamo of Business Management
University of Business. NY
2004 – 2008
Higher School Education
School of Losangle
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