Daniel Acheampong

Mr. Acheampong is a distinguished corporate leader who previously served for about a decade, as the Chief Executive Officer of the Volta Aluminium Company Ltd (VALCO), the second largest aluminium smelter in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also previously served as the President of the Ghana Employers Association (GEA).

Mr. Acheampong spent 36 years in VALCO, playing various key roles, and rose through the ranks to senior leadership and by dint of hard work, performance, professionalism, ethical conduct, and excellent leadership qualities, was appointed as the CEO of VALCO in January 2014. He served diligently for almost a decade in this position and retired at the end of July, 2023.

Prior to becoming the CEO, he served as the Deputy CEO in charge of Human Resources and Administration, Public, and Legal Affairs, after having previously served as the Director of Human Resources and Administration of VALCO.

Mr. Acheampong is a Human Resource practitioner by profession and prior to assuming the role of CEO of VALCO, had had close to thirty (30) years of contemporary experience in the field of Human Resource Management and Strategic Leadership. Thus, on becoming the CEO of VALCO in 2014, he leveraged all his internal and external influences to bring about increased confidence, commitment and goodwill of major stakeholders towards VALCO's operations and in particular, towards the Company's status as the anchor for the implementation of Ghana's Integrated Aluminium industry.

In recognition of Mr. Acheampong’s outstanding contribution to VALCO, a new state-of-the-art steam boiler which VALCO commissioned in March 2024, was named after him by the company.

In the Ghanaian business community, Mr. Acheampong is highly respected, as he served for 6 years as the President of the Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) from 2018 to 2024, after having previously served as the 1st Vice President. He also served as the President of the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana (IHRMP) from 2007-2011 for 4 years, having previously served as the Institute's Vice-President. 

He is also highly respected by key players in the global aluminium smelter and allied industries.

Mr. Acheampong is a recipient of a number of high-profile awards and was inducted into the Corporate Ghana Hall of Fame in March 2022. He also received the Ghana Business Leaders Life Time Achievement Award in September 2023.

Mr. Acheampong has brought to the PETROSOL Board a wealth of strategic leadership qualities, focused on performance or results, as productivity occupies a pride of place in his heart. Some of the Boards/Councils/Commissions he served on include: Member, Board of Directors of VALCO; Chairman, Council of the Ghana Employers Association; Chairman, Council of the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana (IHRMP); Member, Board of Trustees of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT); Member, National Tripartite Committee; and Member/Vice Chairman of the National Labour Commission (NLC). He also serves on the boards of some other private firms.

Mr. Acheampong graduated with First Class Honours Degree in Business Administration from the University of Ghana Business School, (UGBS) in 1984, majoring in Management. With his wealth of contemporary experience in Strategic Human Resource Management and Leadership, Mr. Acheampong holds a global perspective of issues, given his solid professional/executive post-graduate credentials obtained from the Business Schools of the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the Centre for Creative Leadership, all in the United States of America. With productivity so dear to him, he also had a stint in Productivity studies at the Botswana National Institute of Productivity.