George Fosu appointed CEO of GARIA
The Governing Council of the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors has appointed George Fosu as the Chief Executive Officer of the professional association with effect from September 1, 2022.
George Fosu has a 30-year track record across a variety of economic sectors and geographies (Cohen Arnold & Company-United Kingdom, Price Waterhouse-Ghana, PwC-South Africa, IBM-South Africa and Akanani Group of Companies-South Africa).
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George is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (United Kingdom) and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana), with degrees from Henley Business School and Oxford University (United Kingdom).
Trained as a chartered accountant, he has specialist expertise in institutional reform; governance; business transformation; and organisation restructuring, in complex stakeholder environments.
President of the association, Felix Addo, said “George takes over at a strategic time when the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors is being transitioned into the Chartered Institute of Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners, in fulfilment of the Transitional Provisions of the Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Act, 2020 (CIRA), which provides that the association should be established under an Act of Parliament within two years after the coming into force of the Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Act”.
“The purpose of this provision is to establish the organization as a statutory body working in tandem with the Office of the
Registrar of Companies to educate and certify Insolvency Practitioners with a professional code of conduct “George’s rich experience and expertise will serve the association well as it transitions to a world class professional association of Insolvency Practitioners.”
According to George Fosu, the key and important goal of the insolvency professional is to preserve viable businesses that find themselves in a spot of financial distress.
He said that the complexity of commercial arrangements, business financing, human resource management and preservation of property rights require highly competent, knowledgeable, and skilled professionals well-grounded in multiple disciplines to help with the navigation of insolvent businesses.
He pointed out that CIRA fast-forwarded Ghana into the 22nd Century and offered companies (however large or small) one of the most progressive business rescue regulatory regimes in the world.
“My vision of a forward looking progressive and innovative profession guided by an unforgiving ethical code of conduct, offering options for preserving value to companies, business owners and creditors for the common good of our economy is one that is enabled only because of the shoulders of giants that I am privileged to stand upon.
I look forward to building upon this foundation and accelerating implementation so that our economy may fully realise this awesome opportunity afforded by law to save viable but financially distressed businesses from liquidation especially, in these uncertain and unpredictable economic times”.
About GARIA
The GARIA is an association of accounting, banking and legal professionals with an interest in restructuring and insolvency established in 2006 to play a leadership role in corporate restructuring, business recovery and insolvency in Ghana. It is presently registered as a professional body under the Professional Bodies Registration Decree, 1973 (NRCD 143) and also incorporated as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992).
