Roland Agambire

Roland Agambire
Roland Agambire CEO of Agams Holdings
Agambire CEO of Agams Holdings
Born19 April 1976
Sirigu, Upper East, Ghana
Alma materGIMPA
Websitewww.rolandagambire.com

Roland Agambire (born April 19, 1976) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur. He was the chief executive officer of Agams Holdings and the chairman and chief executive officer of the information and communications technology company Rlg Communications.[1]

He set up Roagam Links in March 2001, then as a mobile phone repair outlet, which expanded later to become the first indigenous information and communications technology manufacturing, assembling, and training firm in Ghana. The RLG Group is said to have a presence in China, Dubai, UAE, Angola, Nigeria, Kenya and the Gambia, South Africa, Ghana, and Rwanda.[2]

Early life and education

Agambire was born in Sirigu in northern Ghana. He trained as a teacher and later studied at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.[1]

Career

Rlg Communications

Rlg Communications employs about 500 permanent staff, 1,000 others and has created jobs for over 30,000 youth [3] over the last decade through collaboration with the various key stakeholders and government.[4] His company's training subsidiary, the Rlg Institute of Technology implements similar schemes in Nigeria and the Gambia, working with the respective governments.[5]

AGAMS Holdings Limited

Agambire is also the executive chairman of the AGAMS Holdings Limited[6] and is responsible for the overall strategic planning and management of the eleven integrated companies making up the Holdings. He has won several local and international recognitions and awards for innovation, entrepreneurship, commitment to growth and philanthropy.[citation needed]

In September 2012, he became the youngest person to be awarded the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Marketing Man of the Year for 2011.[1] One of his products, a Rlg phone, was also adjudged product of the year 2011.

In the 2012 rankings of the Ghana Club 100,[7] Agambire's Rlg was ranked the second best company in Ghana by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre. The company was also adjudged the Fastest Growing Company in Ghana, the Leader in Ghana's ICT Sector and the Best Entrant to the Club 100. The South Africa-based African Leadership Network named Roland among 12 finalists in the 2012 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship same as Ernst and Young West Africa who named him among Finalists in the 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. In January 2013, the Pan African Television Network, E-TV voted him the Most Influential Ghanaian for the year 2012 in a poll it conducted among its viewers,[8] and later emerged as the Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 in a competition organised by the Entrepreneur Foundation of Ghana. He won Ghana's Leading Businessman of the Year 2013 at City People Awards for Excellence.[9]

Other ventures

Agambire has addressed a number of high-profile international and local events including university congregations, business summits, awards ceremonies and conferences.[citation needed] He has been the guest of the World Bank Group as Resource Person for a Regional Workshop on Youth Employment in West Africa in the Nigerian capital, Abuja as well as the US Embassy in Ghana on Entrepreneurial Mentorship Program in Northern Ghana.[citation needed]He had previously addressed the 1st Africa Entrepreneurship Conference at the Robert Gordon University in Scotland, United Kingdom as well as the Africa Global Business Forum in Dubai.[citation needed]

Rlg currently has its Global Office in Dubai, making it one of few African companies to site its global hub in that part of the world.[citation needed] In 2013 he announced he was investing in Hope City, a US$10bn project for an IT hub near Accra, intended to contain Africa's tallest building.[10] After all the hype and media attention, Hope City remains a plan on paper and currently it is not being planned.[11]

In 2014, RLG started assembling feature phones in Nigeria. They reportedly delivered 50,000 Nigerian-assembled feature phones in 2015. The RLG assembling plant, known as RLG & Adulawo Tech City, is a public-private partnership between the Osun state government and RLG Communications.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Nathaniel Apadu (16 September 2013). "rLG's Roland Agambire: An Inspiration To Ghanaian Youth". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  2. ^ "RLG shows the way in mobile phone manufacturing in Africa". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. ^ Kuuire, Joseph-Albert (8 July 2020). "The Rise And Fall Of RLG". Tech Labari. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  4. ^ "AGAMS Holdings: Building A Legacy in African ICT Sector". www.marcopolis.net. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Rlg, GYEEDA to train 30,000 youth in ICT". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  6. ^ "rlg's Roland Agambire sues Manasseh Azure". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  7. ^ "RLG shows the way in mobile phone manufacturing in Africa". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Roland Agambire Voted Most Influential Ghanaian For 2012". Ghanaian Chronicle. 1 January 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Businessman of the Year". modernghana.com. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Ghana's John Mahama launches Hope City project". BBC. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  11. ^ "What Happened To Hope City?". The Tech Observer. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  12. ^ "TECNO launches a new flagship duo and unveiled a brand new series, the CAMON X, X Pro and F series. - Ventures Africa". Ventures Africa. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.

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