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Jacob Osei Yeboah is multi-talented with creative solutions to challenges. He is an Engineer, Entrepreneur, Strategist, Philanthropist, Social Thinker and a transformational leader.
Jacob has had 28 years’ experience for creatively improves systems in terms of Energy Conservation, ICT, Database, Process Control and Instrumentation, especially within the Mining Industry in West Africa.
As a trained Electrical Engineer, at Ashanti Goldfields Company, Obuasi between 1994 and 2002. He worked as Instrumentation Superintendent, Special Projects Coordinator and board member of AGA Obuasi Mine Divisional Board .
West Africa Director at Sherwood International, South Africa (a division of Super Group Company, South Africa) from 2002 to 2006.
Founded VitalSource Ltd – procurement and Logistics Company till date
Married to Hilda Osei Yeboah since 1996 and have been blessed with four (4) wonderful children – Jacobel, Janice, Jeremy and Jeffrey.
High school education at Opoku Ware School in Kumasi.
Graduated at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology (KNUST) BSc Electric/Electronic Engineering.
A fellow Katangee, He holds an MBA from Warwick University, UK with a Masters in Global Supply Chain Management from Mannheim University, Germany.
Jacob is also a man of faith. He has been a Lay Preacher of the Methodist Church Ghana since the age of 16years to date. He is a former National President of the Ghana Methodist Students Union (GHAMSU) (1991/93).
August 2015 appointed a Governing Council Member of Eastern Polytechnic, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Board Chairman of Institute of Industrial Research (IIR) of Counsel for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from February 2018 to August 2019.
Board member of Regent University of Science and Technology October 2018
Also a member of The governing Council of Dominion University since March, 2019.